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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 largest ever Delta Green offer as horror comes to the Bundle of Holding

September 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Arc Dream Publishing’s Delta Green is a standalone RPG born from a Call of Cthulhu one. It’s a tabletop experience of conspiracies and horror.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, bundle of holding, bundles, Delta Green, horror

The Magnus Archives: Free to download and a million Dollar RPG

September 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook Games now has a Cypher System-powered version of The Magnus Archives on the way, running the crowdfunding project on BackerKit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, cypher system, Monte Cook Games, rusty quill

Mansters is an RPG of caustic wit and parody horror with political jabs

September 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mansters is a tabletop roleplaying game that uses caustic wit and humor to reveal certain dark blots of the real world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black lantern productions, humour

Eldritch Tabletop’s Mimic monster dice box is a horror beauty

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yikes! Eldritch Tabletop merges tech with woodcraft and bold ideas. The digital display DM screen is impressive, but the Mimic dice box has blown me away.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice

Free to Download: Cities Without Number

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The tabletop RPG Cities Without Number is designed to bring the chrome and misery of a dystopian future to gaming groups with sandbox adventure in mind.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, free to download, kevin crawford, sine nomine publishing

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #220

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary column that is sent to RPG players everywhere on Friday evenings. It is a one-stop shop for reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews about RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, Chaosium, Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, luke gygax, routinely itemised

Free to Download: Macuahuitl Quickstart Rules

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG publisher The Basic Expert has a Kickstarter lined-up for an OSR-style game called Macuahuitl.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download

Bloat Games goes weird retro with Greasers & Ghouls RPG

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Greasers & Ghouls is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game set in a small town in the 1950s. Players take on the roles of normal high school-aged teens, who encounter B-movie monsters lurking in the shadows, all while trying to go to high school, the drive-in, and still make it to the sock hop dance.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, eric bloat, kickstarters, monsters, survive this!!

Project Blue Moon: R. Talsorian Games confirm secret TTRPG

September 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last week’s RPG news summary, Routinely Itemised, speculated that Cyberpunk and The Witcher tabletop RPG publisher R. Talsorian Games’ secret project was something Blue Moon related.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games

The Trouble Engine for Forged in the Dark gets a Creative Commons License

August 31, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve had several really kindly requests to be allowed to make use of the mechanics, and rather than get into anything complicated, we figured an SRD and CC license was the way to go.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, forged in the dark, handiwork games, morgan davie

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