The BrikVerse is dying. Plastic-brick models gather dust on bookshelves rather than smashing into each other or exploding even slightly.
TTRPG news, reviews and interviews
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.
Privateer Press has an all-new mecha bundle: Iron Kingdoms Requiem
In the setting, players can be human, gobber, trollkin, Rhulic dwarf, ogrun, Iosan, or Nyss elf and accompanied by mighty steamjacks.
Solo-RPG Citizen Sleeper scores critical success with a pre-funder and artbook
The game was a breakout RPG hit last year, including four BAFTAs, and this project now adds a solo tabletop RPG called Cycles of the Eye, an artbook, anniversary editions and tarot cards.
Za is a 200+ page tabletop RPG about pizza and pizza gang war
Jim Lampe has done just fine with Za, yes, it’s quirky, but I liked it! I’m not sure I’ll use it often, but I’ve no regrets. $10 is cheap for pizza.
The Lord of the Rings RPG Shire Adventures
Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying takes The One Ring RPG 2E and converts it to Dungeons & Dragons 5E.
Otherworlds RPG: Save the day or ruin it
People become Otherworlders for many reasons—knowledge, power, freedom, you name it. They’re only about one out of every thousand people, so not just anyone is cut out for the job.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #203
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly recap of RPG news. Plushie dragons, new Fantasy AGE plans, a vanishing signature and Cyberpunk RED plans
Thirteenth Moon Games launch The Hydracore System as a universal d12 RPG engine
Easy to learn, quick and diverse system that emphasizes character specialties in overcoming obstacles to get back to the storytelling quickly without sacrificing character autonomy.
Make history: Limitless Champions for 5e
Dale Critchley and Wyrmworks Publishing have a good track record of pro-actively (aggressively, even) working disability and diversity into tabletop RPGs.
Ben Milton’s Knave RPG 2e goes gangbusters on Kickstarter
The book is illustrated by Peter Mullen. It’s only 80 pages, but the Grognard aspect of me no longer desires phat tomes but good-looking, easy to use and high-quality items, and that’s what I associate with Milton and Mullen.
