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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 397).

Dystopian sci-fi RPG a|state 2e funds in about an hour with a limited edition

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Factory workers crowd sweating into cable cars, hoping their pay will last the week. Aerodynes roar above them, bearing the rich to luminous towers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, handiwork games, kickstarters, sci-fi

Free to Download: Pathfinder’s Strength of Thousands Adventure Path Players’ Guide and magic rules for fighters and rogues

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The players’ guide helps by offering a history to the thousands of years old Magaambya, an academy founded by Old-Mage Jatembe, the greatest the world has ever seen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

Stealing Stories for the Devil: Play as reality warping thieves in Monte Cook’s latest RPG

July 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, you can lie to reality and do so to steal from different timelines. Your return home goes wrong. You’re in the right dimension but wrong time, not the 31st-century but the 21st.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Monte Cook, Monte Cook Games

Alien 5e: A review of Stargate SG-1 roleplaying game

July 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

I remember just buzz there was when Wyvern Gaming announced they’d landed the rights to do an official Stargate tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, reviews, sci-fi, stargate, Stargate SG-1, Wyvern Gaming

Fire Ruby Designs brings Warlock! power to the Bundle of Holding

July 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Channelling the spirit of early British roleplaying comes Fire Ruby Design’s Warlock!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Fire Ruby Designs, warlock

The new D6MV RPG system confirmed for the Carbon Grey TTRPG

July 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Carbon Grey, which is heavy with paranormal and dieselpunk, space/time is bent. It snaps under pressure. In the Carbon Grey RPG, this space/time complication will be represented by the Wild Die addition to D6MV, which causes Continuity Surges, Flux Effects and others.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: andrew gaska, carbon grey, d6 system, d6mv, magnetic press, magnetic press play, west end games

Steamforged Games’ Animal Adventures: The Faraway Sea Kickstarter is nearly over

July 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adventures in the Faraway Sea involve a floating shantytown banked by an endless chain of mysterious and ever-changing islands. Oh, and animal people.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animal adventures, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, minis, richard august, Steamforged Games

A resolute miss: 👎 Crom the GameBook review

July 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

I don’t aspire to be mean, but I need to give a fair warning here, I don’t consider Crom the GameBook to be fit for publication.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: reviews

No Kid Hungry Charity Bundle at the DMs Guild: $195 of RPG goodies for $20 with all proceeds to charity

July 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Publishers answered the call to arms by the dozen, and the bundle, which is live today, has about 30 titles. You can get about $200 worth of 5e for about $20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, charity, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Genre Police: Meta-Lurgy

July 25, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Meta. The term is mentioned a lot in D&D circles. When someone does something outside of what their character knows, people roll their eyes and say ‘uhh..meta’.

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

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