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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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Savage Rifts and Explorer Essentials in the Bundle of Holding Dungeons & Dragons appoint a new Senior Designer Voyages of the Vagabond: More than $50,000 pledged to make travelling in RPGs less boring Handiwork Games launch Handimonsters subscription Final hours on the Fragged Cyberpunk

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Savage Rifts and Explorer Essentials in the Bundle of Holding

December 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a Savage Worlds version of Rifts that uses the latest SWADE edition, and the Bundle of Holding is currently stuffed with it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rifts, savage worlds

Dungeons & Dragons appoint a new Senior Designer

December 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It is not yet known which projects Hamon will join, but there’s every chance she’ll be working for Chris Perkins who is the Story Design and Development Manager for D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Amanda Hamon, Dungeons & Dragons, kobold press, wizards of the coast

Voyages of the Vagabond: More than $50,000 pledged to make travelling in RPGs less boring

December 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you struggle to run a scenario when the PCs decide they need to travel 100 miles across country? Or down the King’s Road for twice as far? Do you throw an encounter at them every few miles or let them get to their destination with barely a survival role?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Handiwork Games launch Handimonsters subscription

December 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Jon Hodgson and Jacob Rodgers, two tabletop veterans the three-tiered model comes complete with fantastic art and expertly balanced stats.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, handimonsters, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson, monsters, Patreon

Final hours on the Fragged Cyberpunk

December 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Blink, and you’ll miss it. Wade Dyer gave Fragged Cyberpunk just a week to run on Kickstarter, and we’re down to the final hours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, fragged empire, kickstarters

Cryptographers Guild: Sell your own cyberpunk 5e-powered creations

December 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

One of the lesser-known but hugely satisfying cyberpunk RPGs out there is Entromancy. It’s an agile 5e-powered game and I think especially suited to gaming groups with a bit of experience. Entromancy was born on the back of Kickstarter with raised more than $8,000 from about 350 backers. If you track as many Kickstarter projects […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, entromancy, nightpath publishing

Spawn of Cyclops Con will cover D&D as well as DCC

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Goodman Games’ next conference is Spawn of Cyclops Con.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, goodman games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #77

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised takes a look back at the RPG news with the Origins Award restructuring after an RPG boom, D&D Beyond’s top 10 sellers and plenty of new game announcements.

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Free to Download: Stone the Crows

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stone the Crows is done in the style of a Guy Ritchie film and characters have a Corvid Type and a Skill.

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

Chamber: John Harper’s Paragon system gets a new RPG

December 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The year is 1968. Two years ago, on January 7, 1966, an alien energy, now known as THE SIGNAL, reached the Earth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, john harper, sci-fi

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