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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.

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.

Worldbuilding, mapmaking and character journals at Fat Goblin prices

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In particular, campaign aids are being offered up – digital guides, techniques and tools to make life as DM, GM, Narrator, She-At-The-End-Of-The-Table or herder of gamer cats life easier.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Fat Goblin Games, worldbuilding

Busy Lostlorn: Free preview of Mark Rein-Hagen’s next RPG and more Jamison Stone abuse allegations

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lostlorn is a world shaped by storytelling, faerie tales, and epic quests. It is a world of the uncanny and the arcane, of immortal soul motes traveling between the sacred and the profane.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, jamison stone, kickstarters, mark rein-hagen, previews

P!LLS FVLL of GODS is a CY_Borg zine co-created by an AI and on Kickstarter

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If funded the zine will be published with 32 pages of new weapons, enemies, NPCs, maps, vendors, weirdos and, well, gods…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cy_borg, kickstarters

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Genre Police: In Defence Of The Monster

June 12, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

I hope it helps keep you from falling into the traps that we’ve come to associate with the term DMPC

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

The Dice Crypt: May you die in peace

June 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cryptic Creative are working on miniature coffins to store your dice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, dice box, kickstarters

Jamison Stone quits as CEO with Apotheosis Studios’ future in doubt

June 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Satine Phoenix and her husband Jamison Stone find themselves and Apotheosis Studios in the centre of a community outcry this weekend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, jamison stone, Satine Phoenix, sirens: battle of the bards

Free: Let Mud Puddle introduce you to 5e’s The Hedgehogian race

June 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While Hedgehogians are gentle, they’re also spiky. You’ll know if you’ve upset one.

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

Modern and mature: Vermin 2047 is a post-apocalyptic warning

June 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are only a few days left to back the short run, but the successor Gamefound crowdfunding project for Studio Agate’s Vermin 2047.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, gamefound, kickstarters, studio agate

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #156

June 10, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary column from Geek Native and other tabletop hobby blogs published every Friday. The latest is RI 156, which means we’ve been going for three years!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, Loke BattleMats, routinely itemised, Ruins of Symbaroum

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