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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.

Free to Download: Crown of the Oathbreaker’s first chapter lines up an incredible 900+ page campaign

April 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Crown of the Oathbreaker is 916-pages in total, giving it a claim at one of the largest 5e publications to go on sale.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #147

April 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We can see many exciting bundles, Hasbro hanging on to Wizards of the Coast, and if you’re a fan of the news reading minotaur, there’s a chance to win him in the UK.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alice is missing, crowbar creative, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, evil genius productions, First Responders, foundry vtt, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hasbro, Jon Hodgson, just crunch games, Monte Cook Games, mothership, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, realmwarp media, river horse, roll20, routinely itemised, sara thompson, Shades of Vengeance, Son of Oak Game Studio, Stargate SG-1, Syrinscape, tales of xadia, the dark eye, the dee sanction, the expanse rpg, The One Ring, the witcher, Ulisses Spiele, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, zombicide

Exploring the Familiar in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

April 8, 2022 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

We tend to think of exploration as “seeing something new”. We imagine floating crystal highways, a dragon made of cheese, or a huge galactic bug predator; something we haven’t seen before and could scarcely imagine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: deadlands, Eclipse Phase, kickstarters, neverland, the strange

Be a Lazy Dungeon Master with a Sly Flourish RPG tips bundle

April 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mike Shea has been blogging and writing since 2009 with a Lazy DM hat on. Is Mike any good? Over 2,000 Patreons and 35,000 YouTube subscribers think so!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Mike Shea, sly flourish

Free to Download: Dr. Grordbort’s Scientific Adventure Violence Quickstart

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

A Kickstarter is coming soon, and, for now, a free quickstart is up at Exalted Funeral, who are supporting Crowbar Creative on the project.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dr Grordborts, Dungeons & Dragons, exalted funeral, free to download, Guillermo del Toro

Evil Genius lands multiple partners as Roll20, Foundry, and Syrinscape support Cinematic Adventures RPGs

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The beauty of a Modern-day roleplaying game is that you get to re-enact the action movies that we love. I’ve often found myself in the movie theater wishing I was in the movie.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ankit lal, Dungeons & Dragons, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, foundry vtt, roll20, Syrinscape, virtual tabletop

TOKYO : OTHERSCAPE the City of Mist TTRPG spinoff smashes through $100,000 in funding in a day

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amit Moshe, the City of Mist tabletop RPG designer, once told Geek Native that the roleplaying game was for people afraid of D&D. It uses words, and Dungeons & Dragons use numbers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: :otherscape, city of mist, kickstarters, Son of Oak Game Studio

Free to Download: Wyrd Street d20 – Starter Primer

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The world moves toward war. The armies of the Seven Holy Kingdoms of Tiahn move south, subjugating all in their path in the name of their divine law.

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

Paizo and Foundry forge a content partnership

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This new level of partnership represents the culmination of nearly a year of communal effort from Paizo, Foundry Virtual Tabletop, Sigil Entertainment Group, Syrinscape, and contributors from the FVTT Pathfinder Second Edition development community.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: foundry, pathfinder, pathfinder beginner box, sigil entertainment group, Syrinscape, virtual tabletop

Beowulf RPG adapts 5e for just two players: Heads back to Kickstarter

April 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Handiwork’s Beowulf Age of Heroes has been a success. The RPG was designed to be played with just two people, one player and one person running it and adapts the 5e rules which are so widely known.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, Dungeons & Dragons, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters

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