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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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John Carter of Mars 2d20 RPG in the Bundle of Holding Name Your Own Price: Agents of BAMF Basic World Building: OSE and Neverland RPG Research charity helps over 30,000 people Limitless Encounters returns to Kickstarter

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John Carter of Mars 2d20 RPG in the Bundle of Holding

January 5, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The John Carter of Mars RPG and a host of supplements is now available for a few weeks in The Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2d20, bundle of holding, bundles, John Carter of Mars, Modiphius Entertainment, sales

Name Your Own Price: Agents of BAMF

January 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The OSR style tabletop game is a Name Your Own Price download and was made for Itch.io’s The Last RPG Jam.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: eric bloat, Fainting Goat Games, itch.io

Basic World Building: OSE and Neverland

January 4, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old-School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, basic world building, neverland

RPG Research charity helps over 30,000 people

January 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG Research notes that they have a proven reduction of juvenile crime rates in neighbourhoods where they can run their programs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: charity, money, rpg research

Limitless Encounters returns to Kickstarter

January 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Customers got to pick the contents of Limitless Encounters v3, so there are 10 encounters for each of the book’s 10 themes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, limitless adventures

Chaosium reveal Lords of the Middle Sea cover art

January 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The work in progress cover art for Chaosium’s Lords of the Middle Sea has been revealed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, lords of the middle sea

A nostalgic, old-school campaign setting: The Chronicles of Aeres

January 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Greg Lambert has turned to Kickstarter to raise funds for a nostalgic, old-school campaign setting for D&D called The Chronicles of Aeres.

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

For the third year in a row, Dune is one of the most anticipated RPG of the year

January 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native maintains a table of EN World’s survey results, working out which publishers have appeared the most often.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, brancalonia, Chaosium, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Free League Publishing, king arthur pendragon, Modiphius Entertainment, Nightfall Games, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, savage worlds, SLA Industries, The One Ring, twilight: 2000, Werewolf: The Apocalypse

The Monsters Are Our Heroes pushes for a print edition

January 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Monsters Are Our Heroes is an RPG set in a modern-day America powered by gas and lightning. It’s modern technology spliced with the “mad science” of the early 1900s.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #81

January 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly summary of RPG news from Geek Native and around the web with new releases, Kickstarters, announcements and discoveries.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arion Games, battlelords of the 23rd century, Bully Pulpit Games, cubicle 7, en publishing, fiasco, flatland games, foundry, Knight Errant Media, Nightfall Games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, routinely itemised, savage worlds, terminator, titan effect, wizards of the coast

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