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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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Discover the Fluffy Folio: homebrew for D&D Companions’ Tale: Indie Award winner now on Roll20 Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90 Bully Pulpit Games’ The Blue Way is about cultural assimilation Free to Download: Kevin Crawford’s Worlds Without Number

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Discover the Fluffy Folio: homebrew for D&D

March 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These otherwordly critters are D&D homebrew. Follow The Fluffy Folio and you won’t just get some fantastic drawings to spark your imagination; you get suggested 5e stats for them as well.

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

Companions’ Tale: Indie Award winner now on Roll20

March 6, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Lover will tell you that the Hero actually grew up in the High Hills, and knew by heart the solemn and slow songs of its people.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: roll20

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #90

March 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs is a regular RPG news summary which, this week, looks at D&D Beyond’s founder joining a new gaming start-up, virtual virtual tabletops, an utter mess over at Kickstarter and a solved mess with The Palace of the Vampire Queen.

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Bully Pulpit Games’ The Blue Way is about cultural assimilation

March 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In The Blue Way, the war has been lost, and your village now belongs to Lord Gjerch Bravn and his wife, Lady Kløyk Bravn.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Free to Download: Kevin Crawford’s Worlds Without Number

March 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Worlds Without Number and its fantasy tools are built to be fully compatible with the sci-fi gaming of Stars Without Number and other OSR games, using classic old-school mechanics such as the traditional six attribute scores, hit points, AC, classes, and levels, along with certain modifications and refinements meant to accommodate more modern tastes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kevin crawford, sine nomine publishing, worlds without number

Eight DM voice clips: The Badlands 5e setting inspired by the USA’s National Parks

March 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Each of the 5e National Park packs has 1 battle map, 5 photos, 1 piece of point of view art, 1 video, 5 monsters, 4 encounters and 200 words of voice acting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Cyberpunk Red, Delta Green and Vampire lead the GM’s Day sale

March 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today is International GM’s Day, the anniversary of Gary Gygax’s passing and the largest sale on DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cyberpunk red, dms guild, drivethrurpg, international gm's day, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade, wrath & glory

Free to Download: RIFTS – Welcome to the Post-Apocalypse

March 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The free supplement is full-colour and contains plenty of striking images and text to whisk readers through the Golden Age, to the Great Cataclysm of 2098 and up to Lazlo’s Call to Arms three hundred years later.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Apocalypse, free to download, Palladium Books, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rifts

A dubious bestiary: Mari Zellout’s Gay Survival Guide

March 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Heed the suspect wisdom of feisty grifter trainwreck Mari Zellout as she explains how to totally dunk on all those stupid monsters and sell their organs for change.

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

Barbaric! mutates the sci-fi of the Cepheus Engine into brutal sword & sorcery

March 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 57-page lightweight RPG uses an evolution of the Cepheus Engine, but the ruleset has become quite distant now, especially with character generation, as the engine is crafted to suit fast play – ideal for conventions, one-off games, and mini-campaigns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cepheus Engine, stellagama publishing

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