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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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Who’s topping DriveThruRPG’s Small Press Spotlight Sale? Time Bandits turn 40, and Terry Gilliam celebrates the Northumbrian Tin Soldier official tabletop mini collection Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121 D&D brings back Spelljammer races with the Travelers of the Multiverse Unearthed Arcana An interview with Louis Cassidy-rice, the man who’s found a way to make cheaper mushroom dice

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Who’s topping DriveThruRPG’s Small Press Spotlight Sale?

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The search features at DriveThruRPG tell me there are 52,468 qualifying products in the sale! Hard to get noticed, huh?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Battlefield Press, bluebeard's bride, drivethrurpg, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, magpie games, masks, Prowlers & Paragons, raging swan press, sales, scp, unity, w.m. akers

Time Bandits turn 40, and Terry Gilliam celebrates the Northumbrian Tin Soldier official tabletop mini collection

October 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ightfolk model maker Northumbrian Tin Soldier also publishes the official range of Time Bandits figures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #121

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet-point speed as we look at where D&D might be going next, free Call of Cthulhu for year 40 and a host of promising new games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcanum Worlds, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, Claim the Sky, cyberpunk red, dice, dndbeyond, dungeon crawl classics, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, gary con, goodman games, headless hydra press, holler, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, izegrim creations, James Ohlen, laidback dungeon master, level up, luke gygax, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, relics, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, SLA Industries, southlands, spelljammer, steve dee, strixhaven, survive this!!, the cthulhu hack, vast grimm, wizards of the coast

D&D brings back Spelljammer races with the Travelers of the Multiverse Unearthed Arcana

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The Travelers of the Multiverse offers up six new PC races, some from Spelljammer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, spelljammer, unearthed arcana, wizards of the coast

An interview with Louis Cassidy-rice, the man who’s found a way to make cheaper mushroom dice

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designer and GM Louis Cassidy-rice had done the clever maths, the schema and figured out the production. There was a way to make models, models of fantasy mushrooms, that were also dice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters, terrain

A solo RPG: Secrets of the Vibrant Isle

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Craig Campbell and NerdBurger games have had a string of acclaimed Kickstarter successes. The latest campaign, Secrets of the Vibrant Isle, is a solo tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Craig Campbell, kickstarters, nerdburger games, solo rpgs

Free to Download: Raiders of the Serpent Sea 5e Player’s Guide from ex-Bioware geeks

October 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Raiders of the Serpent Sea’s 5e setting is called the World of Grimnir, with cursed gods of the Stone Court, wealthy kingdoms, sacrifice and raiders.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanum Worlds, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, James Ohlen

Stressful and exciting: an End of the Line RPG guide to Itchfunding

October 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I spoke to Kyle Tinga, the creator of the horror game End of the Line, about it and about Itchfunding.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itchfunding

Award-winning Chew gets an RPG about cops, cooks and cannibals

October 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The bird flu killed over 100 million people, and the US Food and Drug Administration, now the most powerful law agency on the planet, bans the bird.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged in the dark, kickstarters

Call of Cthulhu: Terror Paths is a cooperative board game of Lovecraftian horror

October 7, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The threat in Terror Paths is Menace with a capital M. At the start of any scenario, players won’t even know what they are up against.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

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