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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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Good Strong Hands: Face the corrupting Void as a fantastic creature or human ally Free to Download: Star Trek Adventures – Anomalies Grim & Perilous Studios hire Jeff Heising and bundles Dark Below with Blade and Bone Scoundrel Game Labs and The Wondrous Tome of Wands hope to fix a D&D deficiency TSR Games announces a reboot of the sci-fi RPG Star Frontiers

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Good Strong Hands: Face the corrupting Void as a fantastic creature or human ally

June 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native was fortunate enough to quickly catch up with Craig Campbell, the founder of NerdBurger Games and designer of the RPG Good Strong Hands.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Craig Campbell, good strong hands, nerdburger games

Free to Download: Star Trek Adventures – Anomalies

June 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The third offering in the Briefs series is designed by Al Spader and is all about the weird and wonderful Anomalies that those brave explorers on the final frontier might come across.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Modiphius Entertainment, star trek, star trek adventures

Grim & Perilous Studios hire Jeff Heising and bundles Dark Below with Blade and Bone

June 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Leather, Steel, Blade & Bone is an electrum best-selling Zweihander RPG supplement by Jess Heising et al. Heising now works for Grim & Perilous, the studio has announced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, grim & perilous studios, zweihander

Scoundrel Game Labs and The Wondrous Tome of Wands hope to fix a D&D deficiency

June 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sentient wands and cursed artefacts are included in the carefully balanced and thoroughly indexed loot.

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

TSR Games announces a reboot of the sci-fi RPG Star Frontiers

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The original Star Frontiers was published in 1982 by TSR and was a sci-fi setting in which four sentient races formed the United Planetary Federation and used The Void to travel between worlds.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: star frontiers, TSR, tsr games

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

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