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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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GURPS 4e offers up the RPGs essentials in a bundle

June 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Generic Universal Role Playing System has its own rules category on DTRPG with over 600 titles. It’s an RPG engine designed to power any game.

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

The early D&D adventure TSR tried to bury has a spiritual successor on Kickstarter

June 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Poulter is crowdfunding not just a 5e module but a comic book and has a limited edition watercolour. It’s not the Palace of the Silver Princess but the Palace of the Golden Princess.

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

Genre Police: Feel The Burn

June 26, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

I have been running games 75% of the days in a fortnight on top of other jobs for coming up to two years now, and it was bound to happen eventually.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Flash bundle sale: Alt-history Aces & Eights from Kenzer & Company

June 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG, in which North America isn’t united into a few countries, but is lots of small and angry nations, is on offer as a bundle deal now but in a flash sale with only a few days on the clock.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Kenzer & Company, sales

Comedy, horror and heist: Butter Princess RPG

June 25, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Butter Princess has attracted over 100 backers, smashing the funding target as people are lured in by this combination of dice, comedy and horror.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, humour, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #158

June 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’re here for the RPG news and so let’s start with the summary of summaries!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dnd beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, routinely itemised, third eye games

The Black Cat RPG in English, confirmed by Ulisses Spiele

June 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In The Black Cat RPG, characters are awakened cats (who may wear boots) who see humans as useful idiots but also dangerous. As a result, hiding their Awakened nature makes perfect sense.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

D&D official book tabs for faster games with less faff go on pre-order

June 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The pitch for the tabs is that your games will be faster and more efficient as you’ll be able to more quickly find that chapter or even section of note.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, wizkids

Kickstarter: Bard is an RPG by a Cultural Psychologist

June 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bard needs $8,600 to fund, is nearly there and will produce an all-ages, genre-agnostic game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Free to Download: 29 pages of 5e Monstrous Menagerie

June 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monsters come with encounter ideas to help spark your imagination, along with evocative descriptions and sidebars highlighting the monstrous NPCs that made their way into the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, monsters

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