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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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Avalon Hill page points to new HeroQuest Game Animal Adventures aims to introduce new players to RPGs First edition Wizards of the Coast Pokemon box doubles world record price Routinely Itemised: RPGs #65 Heckna! Creepy carnival of ’80s horrors come to D&D

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Avalon Hill page points to new HeroQuest Game

September 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A new sub-domain on Avalon Hill.com has a 10 day countdown for Hero Quest. The Quest is Calling.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, board game, board games, Chaosium, hasbro, HeroQuest, Restoration Games

Animal Adventures aims to introduce new players to RPGs

September 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The box set comes with with a rulebook of an easy-to-follow system, 4 dog and 3 hero cat miniatures, 7 character sheets, a double-sided game map, gamemaster screen, tokens and a set of dice.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animal adventures, Steamforged Games

First edition Wizards of the Coast Pokemon box doubles world record price

September 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The previous highest price, set last year, was $78,000 and that’s been soundly beaten by a new $198,000 total.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, money, pokemon

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #65

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lots of interesting new tabletop roleplaying games to look at, free downloads, playtests and Cyberpunk Red is getting even closer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, acheron, Adamant Entertainment, alice is missing, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, Chaosium, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, destroyer of worlds, dog might games, drivethrurpg, en publishing, Fighting Fantasy, Free League Publishing, FUDGE, kids on brooms, kobold press, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, neverland, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Philip J Reed, R. Talsorian Games, roll20con, routinely itemised, scion, silver vine publishing, Steve Jackson Games, strata miniatures, swordsfall, tabletop gaming live, the ultraviolet grasslands, those dark places, warhammer, wrath & glory

Heckna! Creepy carnival of ’80s horrors come to D&D

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Heckna! is a campaign setting and adventure that uses Hit Point Press’ card system to build storylines that take characters through freaky encounters and to a final horrible boss.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, hit point press, horror, kickstarters, monsters

Doom metal OSR RPG MORK BORG launches 0% cut license

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can and sell it on without getting permission or offering up any of your money to the MORK BORG team thanks to the new license.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, money, mork borg

Skullkickers get a new story and a D&D adventure RPG companion

September 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Skullkickers 10th-anniversary book, if successful, with be a hardcover. The story will be at least 30 pages and the D&D scenario at least 60.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Jim Zub, kickstarters, skullkickers

Wizards of the Coast lose a brand in Hasbro reshuffle

September 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Control of Avalon Hill is moving from Wizards of the Coast remit to a new position directly under the parent company Hasbro.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, hasbro, wizards of the coast

Cyberpunk RED: The TTRPG prequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is finished

September 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cyberpunk RED is both the sequel to Cyberpunk 2020 and the prequel to Cyberpunk 2077. It’s the same world, and as the lore continued to expand, Cyberpunk Red had to work hard to be the bridge between the iconic tabletop RPG and the highly anticipated cRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, cyberpunk 2077, cyberpunk red, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games

Scion: Demigod – Become a god or die trying

September 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Scion: Demigod is for when player characters have hit demigod tier and can either move forward to godhood or risk stop moving at all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, onyx path publishing, scion

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