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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 194).

Tanks and Tankards aims to show D&D’s RPG engine can power armoured WWI armoured combat

June 14, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I don’t doubt the history skills of the team, but typos in the story pitch on Kickstarter won’t reassure people.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, World War II

Free to Download: Preview Atlas Games’ dinosaur RPG The Star-Shaman’s Song of Planegea

June 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tonight, her spells and his rage will at last lay waste to the slimy lair of the tentacled tyrant-lizard and its corrupted brood!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Atlas Games, dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Free to Download: Star Trek Adventures RPG Lower Decks adventure

June 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ah! Junior officers! Some people might look down on these upstart crewmembers who are so often given the grunt work to perform.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, star trek, star trek adventures, star trek: lower decks

TSR files for bankruptcy, and WotC’s lawyers hit pause, say reports

June 13, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a messy case that started when the TSR trademark was snatched up, forged into an RPG publisher, and sued Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legal, TSR, wizards of the coast

Penumbra City RPG offers a harrowing setting and a beautiful book

June 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to Penumbra City. There’s plenty to do, if you don’t mind the dust. Or the smoke. Or the crime. Or the monsters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Here’s what in Steamforged Games and the Bundle of Holding’s encounters epic

June 12, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Steamforged Games have some big license RPGs like Dark Souls and have been steadily publishing Epic Encounters for 5e for the traditional Dungeons & Dragons experience.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, Steamforged Games

YZ World Building: Coriolis – Wake of the Icons

June 11, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Space intrigue and war meets Arabian Nights, the Coriolis bundle combined with Wake of the Icons provide a core rulebook and setting, and four adventures with world building extras to any GM wanting to create their own version of the Dark between the Stars.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Coriolis, Free League Publishing, world building

Patron thank you gift: Dias Ex Machine Games’ Biohazard (5E) – A Modern Zombie Apocalypse

June 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Zombies overrun Happyland, and the characters are special forces sent in to find out why. If possible, find a cure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris Dias, Dias Ex Machina Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Patreon, ultramodern5, zombies

AJ Pickett’s Silicone Battle Mats can be thrown in the washing machine

June 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A special offer to the Silicone Battlemats’ first 1,200 backers suggests how many people AJ suspects might respond.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #208

June 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Geek Native’s news round-up with news from UK Games Expo and news about the huge tabletop convention, about Battlefield Press in a battle, and various definitely not cancelled yet not, well, here RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Battlefield Press, essence20, power rangers, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, the witcher, uk games expo

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