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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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Run the Dungeon is a comic book and RPG from Self Defense’s Patrick Kindlon Explore the Legendary Planet care of the Bundle of Holding Name your own price for the Heresy & Faith RPG Romantic skullduggery: Court of Blades woos Kickstarter Inhospitable Settings: Restricting Magic in D&D 5e

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Run the Dungeon is a comic book and RPG from Self Defense’s Patrick Kindlon

May 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Run the Dungeon follows Relst, an average guy stuck in an Endless Dungeon and trying to escape to the surface.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs

Explore the Legendary Planet care of the Bundle of Holding

May 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Legendary Games’ now have a bunch of Legendary Planet and other goodies on the new look Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons, Legendary Games, pathfinder, sales

Name your own price for the Heresy & Faith RPG

May 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Based on the rules found in Honey Heist in the Heresy & Faith RPG, you are an acolyte of the Most Holy Inquisition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Honey Heist

Romantic skullduggery: Court of Blades woos Kickstarter

May 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The Court of Blades RPG focuses on courtly drama and the magic, power politics and romance that comes from it. The game takes place in the city-state of Ilrien, a powerbase filled with scheming nobles, court magicians, and dangerous duelists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a couple of drakes, forged in the dark, kickstarters

Inhospitable Settings: Restricting Magic in D&D 5e

May 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native held a round table discussion on Inhospitable Settings in which several RPG designers talked about the attraction of settings that are a bit different, the importance of not straying too far from science and world-building techniques.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fading embers, rpg tips

Stonepunk and magic: Wayfarers of the Farwood – A 5E setting

May 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Does civilization have the right subjugate the natural world in its quest for survival and expansion? Do the gods deserve your worship? And what is your role in the ecosystem of Lor’Zun?

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

The welcome embrace of the battlefield: A review of Stargrave

May 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m impressed. Stargrave makes me wish I had a room with a decent-sized table in it. Those are dangerous thoughts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: joseph mccullough, osprey games, reviews, sci-fi, stargrave, wargaming

Those freaky cool eyeball dice go to Kickstarter

May 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The eyeball suspended in the dice will always float around to look straight out. It’s a freaky touch that feels appropriate to many RPGs!

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

Court appears to dismiss Zak S’ Gen Con lawsuit

May 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A screengrab of the court session minutes being shared on social media appears to show the Judge dismissing the case.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, gen con, legal

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #98

April 30, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dicey Kickstarter surges past $1m in funds, Doctor Who RPG renewed, and Jasper’s Game Day kicks off with a huge charity bundle. It’s this week’s RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: AAW Games, Achtung! Cthulhu, beowulf, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, darkraven games, dice, doctor who, Dragon Warriors, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, fallout, fantasy age, fate core, flying buffalo, gale force nine, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hard wired island, hellboy, jasper's game day, Legendary Games, Loke BattleMats, mantic games, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Mutants & Masterminds, nor cal mythos, one more multiverse, peter rudin-burgess, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, sandy pug games, Shadowrun, sirens: battle of the bards, sr 16, stargrave, Steve Jackson Games, storm bunny studios, storm crow, Symbaroum, the dee sanction, traveller, tunnels & trolls, voxstory, warehouse 23, warhammer, wicked ones, world of darkness, wyrmwood gaming

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