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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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Mere Anarchy: Adventure Perilous Role-Playing Game

August 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Simian Circle Games have a Mere Anarchy-powered 8-bit aesthetic tabletop RPG on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Simian Circle Games

Broken Weave: A new RPG of tragic fantasy from Cubicle 7

August 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The setting is tragic, where the gods are dead, and the world is beginning to forget.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons

The Lord of the Rings RPG heads to 5e but not does simply walk there

August 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The year is 2965 of the Third Age and the Shadow is returning. Rumors of strange things happening outside the borders of civilized lands are spreading and they sometimes reach the ears of individuals who recognize the sinister truth they hide.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, the lord of the rings

Save vs Calories: Fantasy Feasting is a 5e cookbook!

August 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There will be 30 recipes and 30 5e mechanics, but the campaign must first raise $12,000 in this busy season.

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

Strange & Grim: As Luke Gygax retires from the Army, he and Matt Everhart launch a war horror RPG

August 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

S&G is a dieselpunk horror setting which blends aspects of cosmic horror and magic with the belching smoke and diesel-driven industrialization.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: everyday heroes, luke gygax

The Eternal Search: Two factions, an adventure and Death in Space

August 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jesse Dixon is a programmer by day and a tabletop gamer by night, and I imagine both skillsets are in use for the ZineQuest-timed and beyond-target The Eternal Search.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

The ENnies 2022 winners

August 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GenCon means ENnie Awards, so as the weekend wraps, we have a list of new RPGs and games to be tempted by.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awards, ENnies

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Shelob’s Siblings

August 7, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

First up are a Great Spider and a Monstrous Water Spider. Following that are the three siblings of Shelob. These siblings are inspired by three of Shelob’s spawn detailed in The One Ring First Edition. While these spiders are similar, they are tougher and far more dangerous with servants and far reaching webs of terror they spin in Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, year zero engine, year zero world building

Hex-crawl your way into tabletop RPGs: The Scourge of Northland

August 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Scourge of Northland low-level adventure asked for $3,000 to fund, and with just under two weeks on the ZineQuest clock, it’s raised more than $25,000 already.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, old school essentials

So many monsters: Victorian-era Hunters of the Occult

August 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stuart Wilding is writing a 120-page book about hunting monsters professionally in the 19th century. The illustrations we’ve seen so far from Ruben Mocho and Byron Andreu look great.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, zine quest

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