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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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The official Naruto Shippuden Monopoly is out today

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Monopoly game has six collectible items; a shuriken, a Kakashi Anbu Mask, Gaara’s Sand Gourd and the Akasuki’s Cloud.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, monopoly, naruto, Naruto Shippuden, the op

Using the undead as slaves: Necrobiotic’s dark charm lures in the RPG crowd

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Necrobiotic, the decay started (wait for it) around 2020. Within thirty years, the world had changed, shrinking back until everything we once took for granted had gone.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

VoxStory is a traditional RPG designed for the television screen

May 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

VoxStory is a traditional TTRPG made cinematic. Played in a similar way to traditional TTRPGs, VoxStory modernises by allowing players to see their actions play out on a big screen.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: virtual tabletop, voxstory

Free to Download: Heavy Gear Blitz! 3e small format rules

May 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These core rules include an introduction to the Heavy Gear universe, objective generation for your games, weapon rules, reference sheets and game tokens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Pod 9, free to download, mecha, wargaming

Kobold Press deals Deep Magic Spell Cards for D&D

May 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Each individual spell deck includes up to 385 spell cards—even the paladins get 66 new spells! You get the stats and the spell text, ready to play or to hand out as new information in scroll form.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, Dungeons & Dragons, kobold press

Crash into BattleTech: A Time of War as the RPG lists on Bundle of Holding

May 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The last time Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech: A Time of War was available as a deal on the Bundle of Holding was 2013. It’s back today and will be available until June 7th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, bundle of holding, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs, sales

Free to Download: Battle maps from the award-winning Paths to Adventure

May 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Justin Andrew Mason is an ENnie award-winning and best-selling RPG author and RPG cartographer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, free to download

Once More Into the Void is an RPG in which the crew get back together for one last job (in space)

May 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jason Pitre and Jamila Nedjadi have found Kickstarter success with Once More Into the Void, a sci-fi tabletop RPG with an emotional core and inspired by shows like Star Trek: Picard and Mass Effect 2.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Genesis of Legend Publishing, kickstarters

Exclusive: The first look at ARC’s alternative cover, the RPG to slay the apocalypse

May 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Exalted Funeral and momatoes have a doom RPG project heading for Kickstarter called ARC.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arc, exalted funeral, momatoes, previews

Baby dragon dice tower poops dice

May 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dice towers are handy for a few reasons. They can add some drama to a game, they can keep the dice from shooting across the table, and if everyone uses the same dice tower, no one is cheating with their dice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice towers, dragons, Etsy

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