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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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Pre-orders open on Geek Gamers’ Solo Game Master’s Guide

March 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Solo Game Master’s Guide contains system-neutral tricks for those moments of discovery in games when you don’t know what comes next.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Modiphius Entertainment, solo rpgs

The Slow Knife: Play the baddies getting their own comeuppance

March 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Slow Knife is inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo, where a quick death was off the cards.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Magpie Games the Root and Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG publisher launches superhero bundle

March 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Masks is a creatively adapted Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop RPG, and Masks: A New Generation is all about young heroes. Think Young Justice. Think Teen Titans.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, magpie games, masks, superheroes

Mind Weave RPG releases a Pay What You Want treasure map puzzle

March 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

James Eck and Mind Weave take advantage of a little known feature of DriveThruRPG to sell functioning bits of software.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, software

YZW: The One Ring Diving Bell Landmark

March 6, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs, many of which use the Year Zero system (Year Zero Engine OGL).

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

The Speechless Bard’s D&D tracker is a work of physical beauty

March 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are three base colours for the leather; brown, grey and red, for the faux pages, you can go for clean, stained or gold, and there are eight different colours for the creature tokens and matching initiative trackers.

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

Doom and dark water: Pirate Borg is no Kickstarter washup

March 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t need Morg Borg to play Pirate Borg and you can use Pirate Borg as a sourcebook for other systems. There’s even a 5e Bestiary Zine as an add-on kicking around.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, mork borg, pirate borg, pirates

5E fantasy bundle: Goodman Games is trusted by RPG veterans

March 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One of the publishers that tabletop RPG veterans are likely to recognise and think highly of is Goodman Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, humble bundle

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #142

March 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A collection of RPG news supplied at bullet point speed on GM’s Day, with the last Roll20 stats for 2021 and when Wizards of the Coast joined a women’s activist group.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bully Pulpit Games, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, earl of fife games, Eclipse Phase, Eventyr Games, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, Free League Publishing, genesys, handiwork games, household, Iron Crown Enterprises, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, mutant chronicles, onyx path publishing, R. Talsorian Games, raging swan press, routinely itemised, warlock

The Op shares details on the latest Avatar: The Last Airbender game – Fire Nation Rising

March 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Op have announced that Avatar: The Last Airbender Fire Nation Rising is coming soon.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar: The Last Airbender, board games, the op

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