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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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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 357).

Punch a space Nazi Killtrooper and enjoy it: A review of Rebel Scum

November 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rebel Scum is an RPG from 9th Level Games that uses the polymorph engine. It came to us via ZineQuest and is an antifascist space opera.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, chris o'neill, polymorph, sci-fi

Brindlewood Bay RPG announces a new edition

November 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Platinum bestseller Brindlewood Bay has today announced a new edition. The original was digital-only, but the new edition will be the physical one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brindlewood bay, The Gauntlet Gaming Community

Praise the kind Computer! Two Paranoia bundles return

November 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dear friend, if you missed out on these bundles, would you be happy?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, humour, Mongoose Publishing, paranoia

Free to Download: The NOVA Creator Kit (ahead of the NOVA jam)

November 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Sparks are ridiculously powerful, and that is intentional. NOVA’s gameplay loop is about going out on missions, destroying the enemies in the Dusk that stand in your way, and looking badass while doing it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gila, itch.io, lumen, Nova, spencer campbell

Slightly supernatural: A review of The Dee Sanction

November 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

John Dee and Francis Walsingham, men with very different approaches and outlooks, run a secret agency for the Queen to protect the country from the rising supernatural threat.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, just crunch games, Paul Baldowski, reviews, the dee sanction

Freedom from Mechanics: Smoothing out your solo-RPG experience

November 28, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Jacob White, the author of the indie project A Many Tale, which began life as a solo-RPG shares some wisdom and learnings around escaping from mechanics and smoothing out kinks from your solo experience.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips, solo rpgs

In time for the holidays: Roll & Play’s The Game Master’s Christmas Essentials gets festive

November 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

London-based Roll & Play apparently don’t want to take it easy in the run-up to the festive season as they’ve launched a sprint of a Kickstarter campaign to fun a set of GM resources.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, roll & play press

Black Cyber weekend deals: Onyx Path Publishing release four RPG bundle sets

November 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are four new bundles on DriveThruRPG from Onyx Path Publishing which offer about 20% to 30% off popular RPG game lines. OPP hasn’t confirmed, but these deals are likely to be Black Cyber weekend ones.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, chronicles of darkness, drivethrurpg, legendlore, onyx path publishing, sales, storypath, world of darkness

Free to Download: Root – The Bertram’s Cove Quickstart

November 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this quickstart, that war has reached the clearing of Bertram’s Cove—an invaluable logistical resource for whoever occupies it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, magpie games, powered by the apocalypse, previews, root

Steampunk RPG Victoriana 5e shares some lineage art and info

November 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cubicle 7 has shared some lineage art and information for the forthcoming Victoriana 5e RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, previews, steampunk, Victoriana

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