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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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Nuovarden RPG and the Fortunes d4 System lands on Kickstarter

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nuovarden is a tabletop RPG about exploration and discovery in a dangerous world. The game is inspired by the likes of Avatar: The Last Airbender but also Castlevania and games like Monster Hunter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Free to Download: The Book of Backgrounds

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

New in the DMsGuild’s collection of D&D third party content there’s Carinn Gaspar’s The Book of Backgrounds (Edition One).

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

Humble lists a bundle for Marc Miller’s classic Traveller sci-fi RPG

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bundle offers the core rules, the many episodes of The Traveller Adventure, and supplements such as The Spinward Machines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, frog god games, game designers workshop, humble bundle, sci-fi, traveller

Become a… Legends of Avallen review

March 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The whole point of the game is to start off a fantasy commoner and become a legend in a world influenced by magic-using Romans.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legends of avallen, Modiphius Entertainment, reviews

Drunk Dungeons & Dragons: Pay what you want rules

March 17, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

So, here we are, with some practical but straightforward rules for drinking and being drunk, during the ethics of alcohol abuse and national stereotyping swirl in my brain.

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

50 single-page RPGs: Tiny Tome funds on Kickstarter

March 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a straightforward idea; loads of different creators are tasked with fitting a whole RPG on both sides of a single A5 sheet, all in a single book.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, long tail games

Biohazard Games: Blue Planet RPG returns in a bundle deal

March 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is hard sci-fi. The science of this tabletop game tries to be as real as possible. It’s also the first and second edition of a series that has a new generation on the way, following a successful Kickstarter last year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Biohazard games, blue planet, bundle of holding, bundles

Blessings, Healing, and Peace: EN Publishing launch D&D content Ukraine appeal

March 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sending “Thoughts and Prayers” has become derision online as it does nothing helpful. British games studio EN Publishing as a better approach; using Blessings, Healing, and Peace to raise money for Ukraine aid.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: charity, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing

Xplored’s Teburu system launches with The Bad Karmas and the Curse of the Zodiac

March 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Kickstarter reveals that Teburu doesn’t use a flat-screen as a gaming board. Instead, it’s an electronic board with sensors, and you place game-specific playing boards over the top.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters

Modiphius and Asmodee USA partner up on Skyrim and James Bond deal

March 15, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asmodee USA will get exclusive English language worldwide rights to distribute SPECTRE, the new James Bond game from Modiphius and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – The Adventure Game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Asmodee, board games, Modiphius Entertainment, Skyrim

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