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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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Dungeons & Dragons: What is a Goolock? Eric Lang steps down as Game Director at CMON Routinely Itemised: RPGs #63 Twilight: 2000 and the lure of the apocalypse The Expanse gets its own set of themed RPG D6

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Dungeons & Dragons: What is a Goolock?

August 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first level spells a Warlock with The Great Old One pack has access to are Dissonant Whispers and Tasha’s Hideous Laughter.

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

Eric Lang steps down as Game Director at CMON

August 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Eric Lang will step down from his executive role at CMON to focus on freelance game design and activism.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cmon

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #63

August 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Another busy RPG news week, but don’t worry as Routinely Itemised as everything divided into quick to read bullet-point summary lists.

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Twilight: 2000 and the lure of the apocalypse

August 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Free League Publishing announced that they and partner publishers would be making a fourth edition of the military Twilight: 2000 RPG. The Kickstarter then funded in 7 minutes. There are now over 5,000 backers and more than £300,000 pledged with a few days left on the clock. That means there’s still time to succumb to […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, kickstarters, twilight: 2000

The Expanse gets its own set of themed RPG D6

August 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A pledge of $15 will get you either The Belt set, Earth or Mars.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Green Ronin Publishing, kickstarters, the expanse, the expanse rpg

Free to Download: Fragnarok – a Viking RPG about alien technology and dying gloriously

August 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A tabletop RPG about Vikings encountering alien technology and using it to die gloriously.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, itch.io, rollinkunz

Business Wizards: 9th Level Games announce a new RPG

August 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Like Kobolds Ate My Baby! and Mazes, Business Wizards uses the Polymorph system. That means the game is rules-lite and designed for narrative play.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games

Traveller’s Guide to Elusis: Impressive D&D campaign free on Homebrewery

August 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Elusis has always been a land of a discovery, even the first races on this world found traces of earlier influences. Progenitor beings that carved the earth and channeled the seas, who through their immense power gave rise to the natural order and in doing allowed for the new races to rise.

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

Old school and deadly: Two Warhammer 1e collections in the Bundle of Holding

August 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are two sets of Warhammer first edition RPGs and supplements in the Bundle of Holding, and one is entirely new.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cubicle 7, warhammer

Uprising | Curse of the Last Emperor soars as it avoids the peril of stretch goal holes

August 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To win, or even play Uprising to its full potential, you don’t need to invest in a ton of miniatures as Kickstarter add-ons.

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

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