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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 376).

Mythos World: Cowboys and Cthulhu

July 17, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Call of Cthulhu offers the entire Earth as a setting in a variety of different time periods. The American Old West is covered in Down Darker Trails from Chaosium, which presents not only a rich historical setting but also a supernatural one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, reviews

Son of Oak Game Studio allows third parties to write and sell City of Mist content

July 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The narrative and award-winning superhero game set in the slightly disturbing City of Mist expanded this week. Son of Oak Game Studios opened the City of Mist Garage on DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: city of mist, drivethrurpg, superheroes

Bridgerton meets Cobra Kai: Dueling Fops of Vindamere TTRPG

July 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Veteran game designer Greg Stolze (Unknown Armies) has returned to the lure of GM-less play with a game of fencing, sneers, seduction and risks with the Dueling Fops of Vindamere.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Greg Stolze, kickstarters

Free to Download and promoted by Wizards of the Coast: The Sanctum of Pain

July 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The author Daniel Anderson of the Bugbear Brothers says it’s a good module to open almost any campaign as in these three rooms are a variety of monsters, traps and puzzles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, wizards of the coast

Map of the Witchlight Carnival

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Also announced today is The Witchlight Carnival Dice & Miscellany as official Feywild adventure D&D accessories.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Chris Perkins, d&d live, dice, Dungeons & Dragons, maps, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: A Great Wyrm Patron for D&D’s Warlocks ahead of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Arcane Athenaeum is offering a Pay What You Want (with a suggested price of $0) for the four-page Warlock: Great Wyrm Patron download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #109

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The latest shipping delays at Wizards of the Coast even as we learn more about Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons and the return of gem dragons to the game, a fantastic charity bundle deal, Fragged Empire and Osprey’s Sigil & Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Accessible Games, animal adventures, arcknight, astate, avatar legends, bundle of holding, charity, chromatic dungeons, cubicle 7, D101 Games, Diana Jones Award, dms guild, doctor who, Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, fasa, Fire Ruby Designs, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, flames of freedom, fragged empire, Free League Publishing, Freyja's Tears, gaxx worx, ghostfire gaming, gildor games, Greg Stolze, grim hollow, Iron Crown Enterprises, jackals, James Wyatt, jp chapleau, just crunch games, Keith Baker, Loke BattleMats, luke gygax, magpie games, malcolm craig, midlam miniatures, mork borg, neverending, onebookshelf, OpenQuest, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Palladium Books, R. Talsorian Games, rod wiebel, rogue trooper, Rolemaster, routinely itemised, savage pathfinder, sigil & shadow, starfinder, Steamforged Games, Symbaroum, tales from the loop, the dee sanction, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, tsr games, uk games expo, Vampire: The Masquerade, Victoriana, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

D&D: Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons alternative cover and Great Wyrms revealed

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fizban offers the first dragon-specific book for 5e and the book’s writer, James Wyatt, says it’s comparable to Volo’s Guide to Monsters or Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dragonlance, dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, James Wyatt, wizards of the coast

Can you have dice shaped like mushrooms? This Kickstarter thinks so

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The idea behind dice shaped like mushrooms comes from an attempt to save money.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters, terrain

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Grognardia Games

July 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The winner of the Geek Native’s Patrons RPG Publisher Spotlight this month is Grognardia Games.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: James Maliszewski, spotlight, Tekumel

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