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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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RPG Tips: 5 ways to hook players into a dark murder mystery

October 25, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

But how do you get players interested in a challenge that can’t be dealt with steel or silver weapons?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

Relic’s impressive titans transformed into animated virtual tabletop tokens [exclusive]

October 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native has an exclusive look at the animated versions of the RPG Relic’s titans.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bandit camp, relic, virtual tabletop

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grim & Perilous Studios

October 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Grim & Perilous Studios are a group of independent contractors who collaborate on creating, reviewing, and playing games for ourselves, as well as other companies on a for-hire basis.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adam rose, Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, grim & perilous studios, spotlight, zweihander

Genre Police: Not The Destination, but the journey

October 24, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

So you have a group of wandering heroes. They need to get from a village in a woodland to the far north, an orcish settlement surrounded by ice and snow, to see if they can treat with the leader of the clan.

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

Inspired by the myths and cultures of Africa: Kalymba RPG from Craftando Games

October 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Craftando Games has been publishing RPGs in Brazil for five years, and now with this English-language version of the Kalymba roleplaying game, they’re going international.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous is an adult game of playing with your food

October 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe that Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous is just the third Kickstarter tied to Pelgrane Press’ account, but it is.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: banana chan, kickstarters, larp, Pelgrane Press

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #123

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A bullet-point summary of RPG news in the week of D&D reviews, Paizo freelancers forcing a halt to Pathfinder and Star Wars RPG’s future confirmed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis, arc, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battleground games, brw games, Chaosium, Cowboy Bebop, cubicle 7, czrpg, deadlands, degenesis, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, edge, fasa, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, Green Ronin Publishing, hyper light drifter, iron kingdoms, kobold press, Labyrinth, Mana Project Studio, masks, Metal Weave Games, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Privateer Press, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, star trek adventures, the red opera, traveller, warhammer

Degenesis RPG will be discontinued as the publisher calls it a day

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As of today, we are canceling all development of the DEGENESIS IP and bringing the RPG line to its end.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: degenesis, sixmorevodka

The Girl Genius RPG is also a complete GURPS core rule book

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Kickstarter funds a complete RPG using the GURPs rules, covering character generation, equipment, combat, tasks and since this is a Girl Genius game, also rules for Spark inventions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Girl Genius, GURPS, kickstarters, Steve Jackson Games

Free to Download: Amazing Encounters & Places, Vol 1 (5E) preview

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Geek Native of the upcoming Amazing Encounter & Places, Vol 1 a 5e supplement with encounters, locations, plot and some stunning maps.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: czrpg, free to download

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