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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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Free to Download: D&D – Options for characters with disabilities Orbidice: A spherical RPG dice set that wants to be your most different dice Routinely Itemised: RPGs #103 Marvel to launch a new tabletop RPG: Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game The 5e Wanderer’s Guide to Merchants & Magic crushes Kickstarter goals with ready-to-play magic shops

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Free to Download: D&D – Options for characters with disabilities

June 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The free supplement comes in different PDFs, one for screen readers, one with the open dyslexic font, one black and white and one that looks more like a traditional DMs Guild download.

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

Orbidice: A spherical RPG dice set that wants to be your most different dice

June 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Round dice? Blaster Light has crossed the €300,000 in pledges mark as gamers are persuaded by their spherical dice.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #103

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It feels like a spicy week, with plenty of news and a noticeable uptick in Kickstarter activity. Oh, and the powerhouse Marvel returning to roleplaying games.

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Marvel to launch a new tabletop RPG: Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In 2022, Marvel will publish a tabletop RPG that uses a new D616 system.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Matt Forbeck

The 5e Wanderer’s Guide to Merchants & Magic crushes Kickstarter goals with ready-to-play magic shops

June 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book’s success is partially due to the problem it addresses; there are no native rules for trading magic items in D&D 5e. How much are they worth? What can you buy? How do you haggle?

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

Five tips for teaching someone to be a Dungeon Master

June 4, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Teaching someone to be a Dungeon Master is one of the most valuable things you can do to support the hobby.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

DriveThruRPG announces a dramatic price rise of premium colour books

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The latest newsletter from DriveThruRPG has warned customers that prices will go up dramatically.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, money, onebookshelf

D&D: Wizards of the Coast release a first edition post-apocalyptic Gamma World bundle

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Gamma World is a post-apocalyptic setting for D&D. Characters might encounter mutant plants and twisted animals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Gamma World, James M. Ward, wizards of the coast

The Average Fantasy Bestiary (2.0) contains remarkable insights into D&D monsters

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dragons appear 42 times in 50 popular D&D books (which you can see listed below), and then Goblins and Zombies each appear 28 times.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bestiary, Dungeons & Dragons, monsters, stats

The Botanical Bestiary: A Leshy-only monster manual for 5e and Pathfinder 2e

June 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Botanical Bestiary will have stats for D&D 5e, and a variant will have one for Pathfinder 2e; both include 50 forms of Leshy.

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

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