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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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War Stories, a WW2 RPG powered by Free League’s Year Zero Engine, announced by Firelock Games Kryptgarden: Ed Greenwood recommends this DMs Guild adventure series Nordlond Bestiary and Enemies Book aims for 128-pages of GURPS-powered monsters Genre Police: Strange Brew Competition: Beyond the Fire, A Manual of Perilous Creatures from Across the Black Diaspora, Volume 1: Shapeshifters

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War Stories, a WW2 RPG powered by Free League’s Year Zero Engine, announced by Firelock Games

November 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

War Stories is a roleplaying game using the Year Zero Engine that is set during the Second World War.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: previews, year zero engine

Kryptgarden: Ed Greenwood recommends this DMs Guild adventure series

November 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 80-page scenario has PC heroes go up against the ancient green dragon Claugiyliamatar.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, forgotten realms

Nordlond Bestiary and Enemies Book aims for 128-pages of GURPS-powered monsters

November 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a fantasy roleplaying game in possession of dungeons, must be in want of more monsters. No, more than that. Even more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: GURPS, kickstarters, monsters

Genre Police: Strange Brew

November 21, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

We’ve finally got to the point of my articles about universal terminology in the RPG community, where we need to talk about the term ‘homebrew’.

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

Competition: Beyond the Fire, A Manual of Perilous Creatures from Across the Black Diaspora, Volume 1: Shapeshifters

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Beyond the Fire is your collection of pocket guides for including mythical creatures from the Black diaspora in your Flames of Freedom role-playing game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions, flames of freedom, grim & perilous studios

Idyll Creations releases version 3 of the Adventure System RPG engine

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Adventure System is a generic RPG engine for fantasy, cyberpunk, sci-fi, or historically set RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, idyll creations

Free to Download: Sandy Petersen’s Yig Snake Granddaddy Act 1 sample

November 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sandy Petersen is the famous game designer responsible for Call of Cthulhu. In the Cthulhu Mythos Sagas, he and his team take some of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror concepts and bring them to meet D&D 5e fantasy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, free to download, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #127

November 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news from the week. Paizo share an update with apologies, Judge Dredd’s RPG will end, and a historic D&D adventure is back in print.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, Claim the Sky, cubicle 7, demiplane, demon dog, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, Elven Tower, Free League Publishing, goodman games, HeroQuest, Joe Manganiello, Loke BattleMats, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Meguey Baker, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, Ptolus, roll20, root, routinely itemised, through the breach, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, vincent baker, wizards of the coast, world of darkness

The Means of Magick: Fight back against the megacorps in the aftermath of the magick-industrial revolution

November 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mining operations tear holes in the earth to excavate magick; floating rigs drill magick from ocean beds; forests burn to filter the magick in roots and leaves. The magick they steal from the earth runs their machines and allows unfettered growth at the earth’s expense.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kick ass

Wizards of the Coast release three sets of classic D&D character sheets

November 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Three trolls, hot, hungry, and bothered, are breathing down your neck in a dead-end catacomb. Is this the end of the line for your noble hero?

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

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