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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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Free Player’s Guide available as Mesoamerican mythology-inspired Lost Lights campaign setting launches

July 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Side Quest Press has today launched Lost Lights on Kickstarter, a Mesopotamian and Mesoamerican mythology-inspired RPG setting for 5e and Pathfinder. There’s also a download link available for the Player’s Guide (too big, too generous to embed) that provides an up-close view of the game for potential backers. In the meantime, you can pledge or watch […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, mythology, pathfinder

The deep dark world: A review of Sigil & Shadow by Osprey Games

July 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sigil & Shadows is a game of urban fantasy and occult horror. Characters are either the Illuminated or the Shadowed. The first defy the odds to protect the innocent from these dangers, and the second, the Shadowed, accept the darkness and, at best, become anti-heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, occult, osprey games, reviews, sigil & shadow

Doctor Who RPG gets a second edition, and a cover reveal

July 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, will get a regeneration into a second edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, doctor who, jodie whittaker, thirteenth doctor

Graphic and gory: the Svilland saga expands with Freya’s Tears

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Svilland is a tactical tabletop RPG set in a harsh and violent land, and Freja’s Tears is upfront that it is intended only for mature players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, svilland

Character Generationer Updates: Savaged.us and Rifts upgrade their tech

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

SavagedUS includes licensed settings for Rippers, Lankmar, East Texas University, Deadlands and Rifts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Palladium Books, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rifts, rpg tools, savage pathfinder, savage worlds

Art-filled, punk-fueled OSR sci-fi RPG: Vast Grimm launches on Gamefound

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A tabletop RPG on Gamefound, and if you back during day one, you get a free d20. Vast Grimm is a Mork Borg compatible sci-fi from the elder dice people at Infinite Black. The campaign has just launched, is racing towards funding and smashed through 100 backers straight away. [Back this Campaign] If, like me, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Brian colin, dice, gamefound, horror, infinite black, sci-fi, vast grimm

UK Games Expo, one of the largest in the world, u-turns on COVID rules

July 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The UK Games Expo, as Gen Con in the States, previously said that they will not require attendees to wear masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, uk games expo

Mature gothic horror: Once Bitten – The Vampire Compendium grants immortality to its promotional price

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once Bitten – The Vampire Compendium is an 81-page supplement that adds five new bloodlines, with statblocks for fledgling, mature, elder, ancient and even progenitors of each.

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

Fragged! The tactical post-post-apocalyptic RPG Fragged Empire and its sequel hits the Bundle of Holding

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As beings of the far future and emerging from a galaxy wrecking war, characters are generically engineered remnants on a mission to reclaim a lost empire.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, bundle of holding, bundles, fragged empire, sci-fi

Larks on carts: Fairy Trails RPG heads to a successful Kickstarter

July 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Using the tools in PbtA, all shrunk down to itty-bitty fairy size, we’ve made a little game that’s just bursting with silly adventures for you and your buddies to play together.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, fairy trails, kickstarters, powered by the apocalypse

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