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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.

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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 337).

This is a thing: Dragon Ball Super Monopoly

February 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Dragon Ball Super the Monopoly game rather than Chance and Community, there are Gods and Warrior cards, and there are eight Universe Symbol tokens (not Dragon Balls).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, dragon ball, monopoly, the op, truffle shuffle

:Otherworld is a new TTRPG, a sequel to City of Mist, as Son of Oak announce cyberpunk Tokyo: Otherworld

February 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The :Otherworld game is an alternative future for the City of Mists, and Tokyo: Otherworld is the first setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: city of mist, Son of Oak Game Studio

Mystic fantasy meets sci-fi: Legends of Kralis heads to Kickstarter for an Aetherpunk RPG

February 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Levi Davis and Talarius Games have set an ambitious goal for the fully-fledged and standalone Aetherpunk RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Sleepover RPG: So You’re Dating a Kaiju

February 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The download cost me $2.99, weighs in at 7 pages, and I wanted to play it as a solo game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews, solo rpgs

Skirmish rules meet RPG: Grimstone offers deadly tactics and steampunk technology

February 6, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spiral Lane Productions is an Athens-based RPG publisher who has met their modest Kickstarter to fund an RPG of tactical combat called Grimstone. The classless system mixes axes and gunpowder in a world of juxtaposition, light and dark, science and magic and with a solid visual style. You can join the backers from the pitch […]

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

YZW: The One Ring Landmarks

February 6, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero Worldbuilding (YZW) creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs, many of which use the Year Zero system (Year Zero Engine OGL). 

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, The One Ring, year zero engine, year zero world building

Eldritch terror in the jazz era: Brindlewood Bay’s The Unquiet Dark

February 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Unquiet Dark is a new campaign supplement for Brindlewood Bay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brindlewood bay, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #138

February 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A summary of RPGs news from the week Cynthia Williams becomes the boss of D&D and Wizards of the Coast, Zine Month launches, and the One Ring RPG gets a release date.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, Arcadia, beowulf, Chaosium, chris shepperson, corefun, cortex, Cthulhu Mythos, cyberpunk red, Cynthia Williams, dead channel studios, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, en publishing, Free League Publishing, handiwork games, lion banner games, mindjammer, mindjammer press, mork borg, mothership, nerdburger games, owen k. c. stephens, pathfinder, philip reed, R. Talsorian Games, red giant, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, solar echoes, tab creations, the gaia complex, The One Ring, the wildsea, World Anvil

Battlesystem Skirmishes: WotC re-release their AD&D 2e skirmish rules

February 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Written by Bruce Nesmith, who penned Dragonlance Adventures 1e and Ravenloft: Realm of Terror 2e, Battlesystem Skirmishes brings skirmish rules to D&D. Or back to D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: advanced dungeons & dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, TSR, wizards of the coast

Panic on the high seas: Dive is aquatic horror for Mothership

February 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jeremy Childrey has a “Project We Love” from Kickstarter with his horror Dive that uses the sci-fi RPG Mothership’s Panic Engine.

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

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