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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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The Wildsea RPG gets a publisher and heads to Kickstarter Advanced World Building: Tower-Faced Demon Castle Adventure Frostlands of Fenrilik will broaden Onyx Path’s Slarecian Vault “Human teeth” dice on Kickstarter Now you can have your own 3 kobolds in a trenchcoat mini

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The Wildsea RPG gets a publisher and heads to Kickstarter

October 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wildsea now has a publisher in the form of Mythopoeia, and a Kickstarter notify page in place.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, the wildsea

Advanced World Building: Tower-Faced Demon Castle Adventure

October 4, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Advanced 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. It is further enriched with the Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, Advanced Fantasy Monsters, and Advanced Fantasy Treasures. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, rpg tips, world building

Frostlands of Fenrilik will broaden Onyx Path’s Slarecian Vault

October 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Frostlands of Fenrilik is a D&D 5e supplement for Onyx Path Publishing’s Scarred Lands setting. It’s due out via the Slarecian Vault.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, onyx path publishing, Scarred Lands, Travis Legge

“Human teeth” dice on Kickstarter

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A dentist and a designer conspire on Kickstarter to create a set of tabletop gaming dice that look as if they each contain human teeth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters, skulls

Now you can have your own 3 kobolds in a trenchcoat mini

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The reveal of Rime of the Frostmaiden spawned a community favourite joke.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printers, Dungeons & Dragons, models, rime of the frostmaiden

Free to Download: The Shrike RPG (Early Access Edition)

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Shrike generates one-shot GM-less RPGs about skyship voyages. At least, sometimes. If you can keep the machine chugging for the next five or ten minutes, you’ll have the Prologue, and Chapters One, Two, Three, and Four.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: solo rpgs

Fading Embers brings even more ice to 5e

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“This is not how the world ends” is the prophecy that brings some hope to the snowy realm of Nyth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, kickstarters, valiant fox gaming

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #68

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news round-up with freebies, competitions, headlines, reviews and new releases all packed into some bullet points.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventure system, alien rpg, bundle of holding, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cypher system, Dungeons & Dragons, fading embers, flames of freedom, idyll creations, Into the Mother Lands, Kate Welch, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Necromancer Games, Paizo Publishing, power rangers, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest, soulbound, star trek adventures, studio agate, the wagadu chronicles, through the breach, wizards of the coast, wyrd miniatures, Zadmar Games

D&D updates errata for 5e

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coat’s Sage Advice Compendium has been updated.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Free to Download: Void Empires – 2750 (alpha)

October 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Nerhesi01’s goal was to create a sci-fi RPG that supported lots of character customization while combining many tropes. The result if a game in which you can tailor your character, your armour, your vehicle and even your spacecraft.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, sci-fi

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