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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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Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 318).

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

The official The Dark Crystal tabletop RPG is out on DriveThruRPG

April 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This book contains everything you need to play in and run your own version of Thra. Create Gelfling Characters, dive into a fantastical world of Henson creatures, and rise up against the Skeksis.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, river horse, the dark crystal

Free to Download: The Rift to Rhymorra – a 5e Guide to the Spirit Realm preview

April 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rhymorra, also known as the spirit realm, is a coterminous plane that shares multiple borders with the material plane.

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

Tome of Adventure Design: System-neutral RPG ideas book takes in tens of thousands

April 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mythmere Games was founded by a graphic designer, Suzy Moseby, who works with companies like Dwarven Forge, Chessex and Alliance, and Matt Finch, who created OSRIC and is an ENnie-winning Swords & Wizardry game designer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Matt Finch, Mythmere Games

By Crom! Buy Conan! Modiphius uppercut wallets with two Conan RPG bundles at once

April 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Based on Robert E. Howard’s fiction and the rule system behind so many franchise titles, not limited to Infinity and Mutant Chronicles, the TTRPG takes players into Hyboria.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, conan, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, Modiphius Entertainment, Robert E. Howard, rollvsevil

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