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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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No Slave Leia in sight: Star Wars Jabba Palace is a Love Letter variant

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Princess Leia does appear but looking badass in her Boushh bounty hunter armour.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, card games, Love Letter, star wars, z-man games

Osprey Games to publish the Crescendo of Violence RPG by Alan Bahr

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to a world of synth-jazz and cybernetics, where the status quo grinds down the hardworking man and vat-grown clone alike.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, osprey games

Wizards of the Coast just re-released two classic D&D monster books

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monsters introduced, or reintroduced, include dopplegangers, hippogriffs, rust monsters and purple wyrms.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, TSR, wizards of the coast

The impressive Knock! returns for issue 3

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Issue the Third is yet another thick, slick brick of that magical brew of old and new across the spectrum of our common interests: game design essays, refereeing advice and procedures, weird AF encounters and NPCs, a mini-game or two, and of course a helmetload of random tables for all sorts of uses.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, knock!, Old School Renaissance, the merry mushmen

Genre Police: Deep Think

February 13, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Roleplaying can be a really emotive, cathartic and challenging experience if you want it to be.

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

Eldermancy’s 5e adventure setting Sunken Isles sails through $200,000 on Kickstarter

February 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Looking for a new pre-written 5e adventure? Logan Reese, aka Runesmith from YouTube and the designer of Stibbles’ Codex of Companions, has teamed up with Hawaiian values consultancy Purple Mai’a and Eldermancy for Sunken Isles.

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

Poor Wizard’s Almanac: The latest TSR re-release gets mixed reviews

February 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These RPG supplements are set in D&D’s first setting Mystara and begin in the year 1010 AC. The following books advance the year by one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, mystara, TSR, wizards of the coast

The Royal Cartographer: A world-building, map-making RPG you can play by yourself

February 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are two versions of The Royal Cartographer; a solo RPG, in which the Regent’s will is an obstacle to accuracy, and a two-to-four player version.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, solo rpgs, world building

A look inside: Wickerpunk – a folk horror RPG 5e conversion

February 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Crow Land Publishing’s Wickerpunk is barely off the digital press and is already a metal badge best-seller at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crow land publishing, Dungeons & Dragons, previews, wickerpunk

The World Anvil announces the Bitter Chalice RPG inspired by Dark Souls and Bloodborne

February 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You have ventured into a place from which no one has returned. What twist of fate brought you here? And what hope do you have of getting out?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dark Souls, monad echo, the world anvil publishing

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