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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 399).

Warhammer World Building: River Life

May 16, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Warhammer World Building creates campaign settings using Cubicle 7’s Warhammer RPGs: Soulbound, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and Wrath & Glory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer 40k, warhammer age of sigmar

Onyx Path Publishing’s TryItCon bundles

May 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As the Geek Native convention calendar reminds us, TryItCon is on right now.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, changeling: the dreaming, Changeling: the Lost, convention, onyx path publishing, pugmire, vampire: the dark ages, Vampire: The Requiem, wraith the oblivion

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Tacitus Publishing

May 16, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a 5e publishing company run by an ex-Military Intelligence Analyst with two degrees and for whom the likes of James War and Skip Williams have written.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forgotten realms, Skip Williams, spotlight

Free to Download: Defiant Awakening – play as a fallen angel

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rather than destroy the world when the apocalypse came, you protected your part of it. After all, the world’s fun, engaging, full of pleasure, politics and drama.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: defiant, Defiant Awakening, free to download, game machinery

Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this reviewer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cat evans, cthulhu, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, reviews, Sandy Petersen

Knight of the Sun: The gorgeous moral dilemma of wicked 5e module

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Knight of the Sun is an adventure that fully embraces that your party of so-called heroes could go the evil route.

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

Laser engraved D&D character sheet

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Redditor Bronson Ferri shared a laser engraved D&D character sheet. It’s shiny!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, Dungeons & Dragons, Etsy

Free League Publishing predict a 5e version of The One Ring RPG

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

I think the fan base of The One Ring probably expects us to do something, since we launched the second edition of that… and that expectation doesn’t strike me as unreasonable.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, The One Ring

Have you ever invented a drink for an RPG?

May 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick fantasy drink table that’ll let your bartenders offer adventurous heroes strange and exotic (or perhaps mundane and everyday place to them!) drinks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas, stats

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100

May 14, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a big release, Demiplane the gamer-find-game site, made profiles optionally public.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: April Kit Walsh, Atlas Games, awfully cheerful engine, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, demiplane, Dungeons & Dragons, Elephant & Macaw Banner, en publishing, evil beagle games, Evil Hat Productions, flyos games, Genesis of Legend Publishing, ghosts of saltmarsh, GURPS, ICONS, Infinity, inspirisles, lion banner games, Modiphius Entertainment, moonmares games, Prowlers & Paragons, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Skirmisher Publishing, talisman, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Tricube Tales, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, wizards of the coast, wizkids, Zadmar Games

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