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Welcome to the heart of Geek Native: the Tabletop & RPGs category. This is your primary source for the latest RPG news and essential TTRPG news, from blockbuster releases to indie Kickstarter discoveries. We provide in-depth reviews of roleplaying games, board games, and card games, helping you decide what's worth your time and your shelf space. Whether you roll dice, shuffle cards, or push miniatures, you'll find your community and your next obsession right here.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

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Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 179).

The Calvin RPG: A game as precocious as a six-year-old and as swift as a tiger

January 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a magical world out there, we’re told. We have fun, we’re urged. So, I did and bought the two-page download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

BardSongs smashes Kickstarter with a hand-painted modular miniature offer

January 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

BardSongs models are designed for tabletop RPGs at 4.5cm height and with 2.8cm bases.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, minis, models

Terror at your gaming table at dangerously low prices! It’s the Call the Cthulhu Humble bundle

January 7, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Depending on time zones and mystical signs, we have until about Friday the 26th to secure these dangerous tomes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, humble bundle

Worldbuilding Troika!: A Treasure of an RPG

January 7, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

I’m just going to touch on a few of the rules that bring the worlds of Troika! to life for me. These rules enhance the setting and fill in needed details to the implied setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: troika, world building

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #238

January 6, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news round-up for the week, unearthing headlines from trusted news sites and smaller blogs, review sites, and Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fat Goblin Games, routinely itemised, Shades of Vengeance, warhammer

Whispers of the Woods: A TTRPG of Slavic legends, Rackham art and von Goethe’s writing

January 5, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG will have simple and advanced rules and a hex map generator, complete with plot hooks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Tabletop Mentorship Program joins Unpub

January 5, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Unpub is striving to bring more to game designers than just playtesting. Our long term approach is to have playtesting, pitching, mentorship, and education, all under the Unpub umbrella.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Free to Download: Murkdice release a quickstart for Void Above

January 4, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ZineQuest is coming back to Kickstarter and will run in February. Publisher Murkdice are clearly on the ball as they’ve already released a free to download quickstart for their contribution Void Above.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, zine quest

With Breath and Sword: New solo-RPG helps players fight real-life anxiety

January 4, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG publisher Psychhound Games is Luka Brave, and Luka was a disability coach for years, working with neurodivergent teens and adults before returning to academia to teach gaming-themed courses and take a Masters in therapeutic applications for gaming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: journaling, kickstarters, mental health, solo rpgs

Savage Saturday Cinema: PEG tease single session adventures

January 3, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The announcement explains the Savage Saturday Cinema adventures will be full colour and have been written by various PEG luminaries, and it promises more information soon.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, savage worlds adventure edition

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