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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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Rifts for Savage Worlds: Atlantis and the Demon Seas rises on Kickstarter

June 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Palladium’s sci-fi setting, in which Earth has become the dangerous battleground for all sorts of aliens and mutants, advanced science and magic, RIFTs, is now available for PEG’s Savage Worlds.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rifts, savage worlds

Interface RED Cyberpunk RED magazine announced by R. Talsorian Games

June 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

R. Talsorian Games used to publish a magazine for Cyberpunk 2020 called Interface.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, R. Talsorian Games

Dice with destiny: A review of the solo RPG Ronin

June 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Your wanderer is a former Samurai who is now an outcast, having lost their honour. What exactly happened to put you in this state is up to the dice and your imagination.

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

Pre-orders open on the D&D Adult Green Dragon Premium Figure

June 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

WizKids has revealed some fantastic photographs of their Icons of the Realm: Adult Green Premium Figure from their official D&D range.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, minis, models, wizkids

Grimdark for 5e: The talented illustrators of impressive Blood Sword art gallery

June 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blood Sword is a 5e campaign setting that’s funded on Kickstarter and will close in days. Blood Sword was also a grimdark choose-your-own-adventure gamebook from the 80s, and that’s what the 5e setting is based on.

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword

Gygax family members battle against TSR Games

June 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

TSR Games (the 3rd) has accused Luke Gygax of making stuff up, noting that he was never part of TSR.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ernie gygax, luke gygax, tsr games

Izegrim Creations’ Chromatic Dungeons plans the old school feel but for the modern community

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chromatic Dungeons TTRPG. Bringing the old school feel of TSR era gaming into the modern community. That is, an OSR clone, with the feel of old school gaming, but with modern sensibilities of game design applied, and to be presented to be welcoming and representative of just how diverse our gaming community has become since the 80s.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chromatic dungeons, izegrim creations, Old School Renaissance, rod wiebel

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #106

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games have TSR Games over a barrel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 1985 games, a couple of drakes, Andrews McMeel, Atlas Games, black armada, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark alliance, dead channel studios, degenesis, dms guild, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, Elven Tower, en publishing, Eventyr Games, fiasco, Fighting Fantasy, flying buffalo, good strong hands, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, itch.io, Lovecraftesque, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised, scp, sixmorevodka, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, star frontiers, star trek adventures, storm bunny studios, tabletops & tentacles, third eye games, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, trollish delver games, tsr games, tunnels & trolls, Venger Satanis, warhammer, warlock, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizkids, world of darkness, wrath & glory, zweihander

Manage Hope and Doom: Tide Breaker RPG the cinematic system funds on Kickstarter

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Tide Breaker, there’s always the option to roleplay your way around problems with anyone using your masterful diplomacy and persuasion skills, if cinematographic combat is not your style.

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

The ultimate guide to buying and selling magic items in 5E D&D

June 25, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Magic items play a huge role in 5e D&D – and I love handing them out to my players. But answering even simple questions such as what an item costs in 5e, where and from whom it can be bought, and how to haggle for a better price, is no easy task for the DM due to the lack of official rules and guidelines for doing so.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eventyr Games, rpg tips

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