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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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Atlas Games announces Planegea, a 5e Prehistoric Fantasy

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Planegea rises out of our earliest ancestral memory, a world we can barely recognize, which holds all the adventure we can imagine.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Atlas Games, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Secure, Contain, and Protect: SCP Tabletop RPG is now available for the brave

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Characters are members of The Foundation and have the mission to Secure, Contain and Protect the various…. things… that lurk on the edges.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 26 letter publishing, scp

Itch launches summer sale tabletop RPG bundle

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Itch, the retail platform for game-makers, is increasingly getting into tabletop RPGs. Today, the Tabletop Selects Bundle launches and offers 6 games for $12.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, itch.io, jay dragon, sales, the ultraviolet grasslands

Blood Sword brings 80s grimdark to Dungeons & Dragons

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Blood Sword 5e Handbook will contain approximately 250 richly illustrated and colored pages with maps, characters, opponents, monsters and other evocative images of Legend, a land of adventurers threatened by unspeakable horrors.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blood sword, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

World’s oldest tabletop RPG company, Flying Buffalo, to be sold

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Flying Buffalo is being sold to an undisclosed backer. The news was revealed in a post on Trollbridge by current owner Steve Crompton.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: flying buffalo, goodman games, Ken St Andre, Rick Loomis, steven crompton, tunnels & trolls

Add the world’s second-oldest RPG to your collection on the cheap via the Bundle of Holding

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Created by Ken St Andre, Tunnels & Trolls was inspired by D&D and came out shortly afterwards. It’s still going, and Ken is still active.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, flying buffalo, Ken St Andre, tunnels & trolls

Black Armada announce Lovecraftesque 2nd edition and playtest

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The core of the game is the same as ever: you play a lone, isolated Witness who stumbles upon a cosmic secret and (probably) meets a terrible end.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Becky Annison, black armada, horror, lovecraft, Lovecraftesque

Economic horror, plagues and lockdowns: Best-selling Red Markets RPGs get an Itch-hosted quickstart

June 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, itch.io, zombies

The grimdark life of a Sharper: Synthicide comes to Forged in the Dark

June 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A mutant war destroyed every civilized world in the Galaxy, and the only survivors were located on the outer rim.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged in the dark, kickstarters, sci-fi, Synthicide, will power games

Most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”

June 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When this post first went live, the data says that most D&D fans can’t correctly answer “Who owns D&D Beyond?”. Does it matter?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, fandom, stats, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

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