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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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Genre Police: Keep On Marching

July 11, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When you begin a West Marches game, it’s worth thinking about your player base.

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

9 years of adventure: A review of Jackals – The Fall of the Children of Bronze

July 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 14 adventures here, not linked together to make a campaign, but to tie nine years of adventuring and perhaps multiple generations of Jackals together in a single story.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jackals, john-matthew defoggi, osprey games, reviews

A flooded and Savage World: The Drowned War RPG

July 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The apocalyptic setting of the Lost Sea is one where refugees sink.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, savage worlds

Mario edition of the Game of Life

July 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mario Kart as an analogy for life? Bananas that are not your fault, thrown shells that are someone else’s fault and sometimes impossible to get ahead no matter what you do?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, hasbro, mario

Free to Download: Official Ravenloft character sheets from Wizards of the Coast

July 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Wizards of the Coast have released this 3-page free to download Ravenloft themed D&D character sheet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, free to download, Ravenloft, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wizards of the coast

Irish mythology adapted for D&D 5e: Heroes of Tara Player’s Guide

July 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The vibrant, outrageous, and romantic world of Irish mythology has a wealth to offer, with tender-hearted beauty and nerve-shaking passion in equal measure.

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

Stephen Dinehart and Giantlands quit TSR and won’t pay to use the trademark

July 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stephen Dinehart has stepped down as CCO and won’t license the TSR trademark from Ernie Gygax.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ernie gygax, giantlands, star frontiers, tsr games, wonderfiled

It’s not over! TSR Games (3) re-returns TSR Games (4)? TSR Games 3.5?

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

TSR has replaced the individual that was serving as both social media manager and information technology manager for TSR and The Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ernie gygax, tsr games, wonderfiled

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #108

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games are gone, conventions are here, but without masks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, chromatic dungeons, city of mist, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darkraven games, dms guild, Fantasy Grounds, fate of cthulhu, flames of freedom, free league workshop, gen con, grim & perilous studios, Gun Metal Games, handiwork games, infinite black, izegrim creations, kobold press, laidback dungeon master, lone wolf, lumen, micro rpg, neverending, neverland, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, R. Talsorian Games, romance of the perilous land, routinely itemised, Son of Oak Game Studio, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, storytellers vault, Swords & Wizardry, trinity continuum, trollish delver games, tsr games, uk games expo, vast grimm, wizards of the coast, wonderfiled

Swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy: Hyberorea marches its way to 3e on Kickstarter

July 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

North Wind Adventures set a goal of $20,000 to bring a third edition of the swords, sorcery and weird science-fantasy RPG Hyperborea to life on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, North Wind Adventures

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