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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 228).

Vaesen and Free League’s Forbidden Lands in bundle? You betcha

January 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The offer runs until about the 19th, starts with a Forbidden Lands card deck and scales up to a 10-item £14.55 tier. At that top end, there are over £130 worth of downloads.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, humble bundle, vaesen

Roll20’s top 10 best selling RPG products of 2022

January 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

2022 also saw OneBookShelf and Roll20 coming together to work as one. The result? We can also see the top 10 at Roll20. Actually, I’ve data for the top 12. So let’s do that!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, Paizo Publishing, roll20, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Empty, a Distemper jumpstart

January 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Distemper takes place a year after the peak of the dog flu, a devastating and highly contagious mutant of canine distemper that killed 80% of humanity in a matter of months.

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

Thirteenth Moon Games crowdfunds a game of witchcraft with Coven & Crucible

January 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Non witches know about magic the same way they know about taxes and dry cleaning and movies. Most people just hire a witch if they need something they can’t get through other means.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Polyhedral calls for submissions as the new RPG quarterly magazine Kickstarter approaches

January 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native expects the Kickstarter for Polyhedral to launch within the next few weeks and for submissions to be competitive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magazines

The best selling titles from Pathfinder Infinite in 2022

January 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

Now, as 2023 rumbles to life we have data from one of the new sites in OneBookShelf’s Community Content family; Paizo’s Pathfinder Infinite.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, pathfinder infinite, stats

Be the baddie! Bandit Camp kicks off 2023 with a Wicked Ones bundle

January 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This new bundle has all the current game line, and there’s only one tier, too, with no threshold price to tackle. The catch? It’s over by January 16th.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, bundle of holding, bundles, forged in the dark, wicked ones

YZ Worldbuilding: Blade Runner

January 2, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Imagine living as a have not in a future LA dominated by poverty, corporate overreach, moral quandaries, and violence. Blade Runner takes the Year Zero Engine system and couples it with investigation and existential character drama that will change and mark the player characters who survive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, blade runner, blade runner rpg, Free League Publishing

Solo D&D adventure with Dragonlance’s The Test of High Sorcery

January 2, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Maybe the most significant difference between Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms is how the settings approach magic.

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

DnDarwin: An incredible evolutionary tree of playable Dungeons & Dragons races

December 31, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Redditor Aatriuz has shared an impressive and daunting project – an attempt to plot the evolutionary tree of all the playable D&D races.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, rpg ideas

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