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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.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

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Free to Download: Arcane Anthems for your RPGs

December 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Arcane Anthems is a Patreon that creates free music for your tabletop RPGs.

Filed Under: Music, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Patreon

The Contract: A free supernatural-action TTRPG

December 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Contract is a tabletop roleplaying game, with rules on a wiki rather than as a download and its entirely free.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free to play

Which pets make the most popular dungeon companions?

December 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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If you had to live life like a D&D adventurer, on the road, exploring ruins of castles or lost dungeons, which pet/animal companion would you have?

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #80

December 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news for the Christmas week. Just what has the industry been up too?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Accessible Games, altered carbon, blades in the dark, Bully Pulpit Games, burn bryte, Chaosium, Dragonlance, en publishing, hunters entertainment, kult: divinty lost, Modiphius Entertainment, rogue trooper, routinely itemised, star trek adventures, wicked ones, wizards of the coast

Curated Christmas offers on DriveThruRPG

December 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At this time of year, sales are pretty standard, and given the year we’re having it’s hard to deny RPG publishers their chance for a retail push.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, nerdburger games, Palladium Books, sales, schwalb entertainment, Shadow of the Demon Lord

Tome of Mystical Tattoos for 5e makes its mark

December 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Karl Nicolas’ Kickstarter to publish a compendium of over 100 unique and fully-illustrated magical tattoo for 5e is doing well.

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

Humble Bundle launch timely STL files deal for 3D printable minis

December 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are three tiers, two with a fixed price and one changing price and bids come in. The first contains $200 worth of downloads and costs only £0.75.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printers, bundles, humble bundle, models, sales

Assassin’s Creed artist creates the Ultimate RPG Battle Map Creation Kit for VTTs

December 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Xavier Deschenes has created environments in computer games for companies like EA and Ubisoft. Now they’re on Kickstarter with Ultimate RPG Battle Map Creation Kit for Virtual TableTop.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, kickstarters, virtual tabletop

Blades in the Dark get a Bundle of Holding

December 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Forged in the Dark RPGs are going in number and they’re powered by Blades in the Dark by One Seven.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blades in the dark, bundle of holding, bundles, john harper, sales

A game learns inRL hacks: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki

December 22, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules for inRL don’t make sense, the other characters aren’t logical, success criteria flaky, quests poorly define and all sorts of problems.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: trailers

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