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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.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

WizKids to launch paint range and sprue-based miniatures range this year

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re trying to develop a paintline that is mainly aimed at people who are not pro painters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: wizkids

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #111

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary, and this week there’s mixed news with $30,000 injected into the hobby but sadness as Brian Fitzpatrick passes away.

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Wickerpunk RPG: Spooky backwater horror comes to D&D

July 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We talk about what the genre is, about expectations players will have and how to carefully build a wickerpunk world of dark forest, ancient circles of stone, creeping mists and dark green mountains and hills and fens.

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

Start your Starfinder adventures and help ComicBooks for Kids with unusual Humble Bundle

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Unusually, there’s a $50 tier with all 32 PDF products and physical copies of the Beginners Box and Pact Words hardcover. Shipping, though, might be as much as $65.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, humble bundle, sci-fi, starfinder

SoulMuppet Publishing’s space western Orbital Blues RPG hits trailer

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Published through a successful Kickstarter, a project that even a cassette tape, Orbital Blues is a space western homage to vintage music. This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted. It is an intergalactic age of cowboys, outlaws and bandits playing on an interstellar stage. It is a time […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: sci-fi, soulmuppet

The servant has become master: Warp Games funds Banality

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The future is 200 years from now, and it feels like technology is everywhere, and MALIS helps out. Except, the alien intelligence MALIS isn’t a friend.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, kickstarters

Free to Download: Wizards of the Coast releases the D&D adventure From Cyan Depths

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The D&D adventure suits four to six characters and recognises that groups playing through the series will have levelled up again. From Cyan Depths is for 10th level heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, free to download, magic the gathering, wizards of the coast

Jessa Blackthorne reveals new WizKids new D&D map range

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jessa was able to show some model-enhanced examples of just how handy the large area is. In one, the tundra mat lifts up to also be a backdrop like an approaching blizzard wall.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, icons of the realms, wizkids

Wizards of the Coast promote the free to download: The Little Astralnaut

July 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Take a child on a Dungeons and Dragons adventure as they take on the role of “The Little Astralnaut.”

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

Survivalist’s Guide to Spelunking launches today

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How do you keep your character alive while exploring the dangers of underground dungeons? As a GM, how do you keep the darkness of the underground feeling intimidating and treacherous?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: AAW Games, Dungeons & Dragons

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