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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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Genre Police: Sand in the Eyes

September 18, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

You thought you were ready. You’d planned a series of twenty or so hooks in the city. A massive hotbed of intrigue and factions. Session three, the players leave the city because they’ve angered the law and never look back. You have to improv in the wilderness. None of it sounds as good as the city would have done.

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

Could the Stegodial be your next branded tabletop merch?

September 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Publishers, RPG streamers on Twitch, conventions, etc. can have a 100 made for novel branded merch.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Free to Download: G.O.L.E.M.S. for the Keyforge RPG

September 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week Edge’s Community Content program published a set of bundles for GenCon.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, edge, free to download, genesys, twilight imperium

The winners of the 2021 ENnies Awards include a silent RPG

September 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The ENnies have revealed their 2021 winners. The event was streamed on YouTube even though GenCon was running with an in-person convention this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, alice is missing, alien rpg, brancalonia, ENnies, Free League Publishing, Renegade Game Studios, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a couple of drakes, animal adventures, apotheosis, brindlewood bay, Call of Cthulhu, Cepheus Deluxe, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, demiplane, Diana Jones Award, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dwarven Forge, edge, fat dragon games, Freddie Taylor-Bell, gama, game wizards, gencon, goodman games, Gun Metal Games, heroic maps, iron kingdoms, James Maliszewski, Jon Peterson, limitless adventures, Matt Forbeck, Meguey Baker, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder infinite, Privateer Press, Ravenloft, routinely itemised, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, star trek adventures, starfinder infinite, talespire, tanya floaker, the dee sanction, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, vincent baker, wizards of the coast

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Sanguine Games

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix will air an animation called the Usagi Chronicles, a series based on Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo comics. Which publisher produces a best-selling Powered by the Apocalypse Usagi Yojimbo RPG? Yep, that’s Sanguine.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Sanguine Productions, spotlight, Usagi Yojimbo

QUEERZ! RPG based on the manga and powered by City of Mist launches Kickstarter

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the QUEERZ! RPG, characters are superheroes who juggle everyday lives and fight to save the world from a dark substance known as Ignorance.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: city of mist, kickstarters, queerz, Son of Oak Game Studio, superheroes

Paizo will launch Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite for third party content in October

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At Gen Con today, the publisher has announced Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder infinite as programs and sites to support the program.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, onebookshelf, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, pathfinder infinite, starfinder infinite

Marvel Multiverse RPG designer announces next RPG project

September 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shotguns and Sorcery is heading to 5e, as Matt Forbeck brings the first wave of fulfilment to a close.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Matt Forbeck, Outland Entertainment, Robert J. Schwalb, Shotguns & Sorcery

It’s horrible, it’s dark, and it looks good: Blackbirds RPG Powered by Zweihander launches on Kickstarter

September 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, Blackbirds are characters who are tethered to destiny’s frayed threads and have a greater role in the world. Without the Norns, this fate is malleable but still there.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, blackbirds, daniel d. fox, kickstarters, zweihander

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