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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.

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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 184).

Free League launch an incredible core RPG bundle: Dragonbane, Vaesen, Twilight: 2000 and more

December 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The retail value here is $88, and it includes the Nordic horror Vaesen, the sci-fi Coriolis, the post-apocalyptic Mutant Year Zero and hexcrawl Forbidden Lands.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Coriolis, dragonbane, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, twilight: 2000, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, year zero engine

Stay alive: Starship Scavengers solo sci-fi takes on Station Thirty One

December 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This expansion includes the time limit on the game and emphasises replayabilty. It also comes with its adventure deck of cards (if you want) printed on tarot-sized 400gsm card stock.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, solo rpgs, the grinning frog

Calling All Gamers: Participate in ‘To Boldly Game’… at the National Space Centre!

December 13, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix 2 Comments

In some exciting and unexpected news, The National Space Centre in Leicester is teaming up with the UK Games Expo to bring us a board gaming event unlike anything we’ve ever seen! The event is called To Boldly Game and will be an entire weekend ‘celebrating the best of table-top gaming’ – as well as […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: uk games expo

Twice as far: Mongoose release two Traveller RPG bundles

December 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From skirmishes across the vast expanse of the cosmos to the gritty depths of cyberpunk metropolises, from daring exploits as free traders navigating the nebulous legalities of the universe to grand narratives woven across entire galaxies, Traveller provides the tools to explore the cosmos in ways that resonate with your imagination and gaming preferences.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Mongoose Publishing, traveller

The MCDM RPG approaches $3,000,000 as their custom VTT unlocks

December 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher also said they’ll custom build a new virutal tabletop. That could be even more disruptive and interesting to the RPG market than a popular new core rule set.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, draw steel, James Introcaso, Matt Colville, mcdm, virtual tabletop

Genre Police: Reading The Intent

December 11, 2023 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It might be obvious but I think it is worth mentioning that any roleplaying game ruleset are a ‘text’, much as we would look at any sort of media.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, masks, rpg tips, world of darkness

Steve Jackson Games’ Dungeon Fantasy hack-n-slash TTRPGs are on offer

December 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dungeon Fantasy was designed to be the best of both worlds, to lure in D&D players or those dungeon-crawling curious, with off-the-shelf equipment load-outs and crib sheets while still having that core GURPS feel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, GURPS, Steve Jackson Games

The North Pole Under Siege! A holiday hex crawl uses ‘Christmas cheer’ as a strategic resource

December 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The assault has come at a terrible time. Santa’s reserves of Christmas cheer are nearly expended, and a good deal of what he was relying on to bring Christmas to the world this year have been captured by various foes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, christmas, kickstarters

Everything you need for Pathfinder 2e – The bundle offer

December 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Money from the Pathfinder 2e Legacy bundle goes to support Comic Book for Kids, and more than £7,500 has already been raised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, humble, lost omens world guide, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

RPG Publisher Spotlight: DR Games (with 2D6 Realm live on Kickstarter)

December 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Roll 2D6 for timing. Crit success! Last month, Geek Native’s Patreons voted for DR Games for the last RPG Publisher Spotlight of 2023.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: solo rpgs

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