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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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Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 461).

Magpie Games’ Urban Shadows 2e smashes $100,000 on Kickstarter

November 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Magpie says they’ve redefined what’s possible with Powered by the Apocalypse games in the last few years and want to bring those learnings to Urban Shadows.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, powered by the apocalypse

Ex Stasis Games announce Dreadful Realms: Caverns of the Wise Minister as their first game

November 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ex Stasis Games will launch their first game Dreadful Realms: Caverns of the Wise Minister on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cat evans, Ex Stasis Games

Genre Police: Character Study

November 1, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When you have a small number of players who want to tell a slightly bigger story or a small group but lots of ideas, you can create a situation where people play more than one character.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, bluebeard's bride, dungeon crawl classics, genre police, Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, rpg tips

The Mariana Trench: A 1 or 2 player pocket board game

November 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Players descent into the Mariana Trench, encountering creatures as they race to complete their research mission.

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

Mythos World: Rules, Adventures, and Setting

October 31, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

In 1925 your expert detectives work to keep a post-war and divisive world from falling apart.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos

The Dungenerator: Nigh-Infinite Dungeons

October 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Random dungeons with a twistier and more organic feel than you’d get from all those carefully aligned square tiles.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, generators, kickstarters, rollinkunz

Slip Streams and Gun Rack expand Shadowrun 6e

October 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The entire Shadowrun setting is up for grabs with Slip Streams as reality begins to fall apart and change and the timeline warp.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Shadowrun

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #72

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is a weekly roundup of RPG news from Wizards of the Coast, Chaosium, Cubicle 7, R. Talsorian Games, PEG, Paizo and the industry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battletech, beadle & grimm's, bloat games, Call of Cthulhu, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, Claim the Sky, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, darrington press, Delta Green, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, entromancy, fandom, Fantasy Grounds, Fire Ruby Designs, First Responders, forsaken system player's guide, handiwork games, hasbro, Helmgast, humble bundle, Indie Press Revolution, invisible sun, John Carter of Mars, kobold press, kult: divinty lost, magpie games, Mark Diaz Truman, mindjammer press, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, Nightfall Games, nightpath publishing, Ogre, onyx path publishing, over arms, Pacesetter Games and Simulations, Palladium Books, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, rp haven, s5s, Saturday Morning Scenarios, savage worlds, Scarred Lands, scion, Steve Jackson Games, talisman, tasha's cauldron of everything, terminator, The Esoterrorists, the fantasy trip, the yellow king, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warchief gaming, warhammer, warlock, wet ink games, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

The RPG charity The Role Play Haven turns to GoFundMe to survive

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Role Play Haven is a charity organizer that brings tabletop roleplayers together at 7 branches in the UK. The group has over 1,000 members, and this makes it the most extensive gaming club in Europe.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: charity, money, rp haven

A channelling board and music for Xenolanguage: A Game about First Contact

October 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thorny Games won awards for Dialect a game communication and language. Their latest game Xenolanguage takes that up a notch and Kickstarter is in love with the original concept.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

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