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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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Genre Police: Take The Power Back

October 11, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Let’s talk about control for a minute. Any time one person has a kind of control over another, there’s a power imbalance. This is constantly true about RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

Dalreth looks to establish an icy city of intrigue and adventure

October 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Darrin Anderson is looking to bring his D&D 5e setting the icy city of Dalreth to life in books and with pewter miniatures with the help of the Kickstarter community.

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

Free to Download: Samhain Slaughter (a one-page RPG)

October 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed as a Halloween special, Samhain Slaughter is a standalone scenario for the Tricube Tales system and is usable as a micro-setting, but it is also a fully self-contained one-page RPG in its own right.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, halloween, Zadmar Games

The red mist rises again: The Alhami Sky returns to Kickstarter

October 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The red mist is the magical apocalypse that ruined the world, forcing people in the sky above, but it’s not done and after all these years is working on an evil plan.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, horror, kickstarters

The RPG Worlds Without Number smashes through the $100,000 mark on Kickstarter

October 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ages of men and of Outsiders have ascended and been forgotten, and only the bones of their cities and the dust of their dreams remain upon this tired world.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kevin crawford, kickstarters, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, worlds without number

The devil angel war returns as Era: Forbidden comes back to Kickstarter

October 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Era: Forbidden individual humans can join the fight by getting hold of, and picking up, one of the weapons used by the angels and demons.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: angels, demons, kickstarters, Shades of Vengeance

Starfinder gets a core rules errata

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re told that the changes largely clarify intent and fix known issues. There are some tweaks to resolve inconsistencies and make life a bit better for GMs and players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: errata, Paizo Publishing, starfinder

Call of Cthulhu’s The Children of Fear due out this month

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium has confirmed that their mammoth Call of Cthulhu adventure The Children of Fear will be available in digital format this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, lynne hardy, the children of fear

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #69

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native’s weekly RPG news herding with headlines, interviews reviews and new releases all squished into several bullet point lists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Chaosium, cyberpunk red, death on the reik, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, Elisa Teague, fasa, ghost hunters, godforsaken, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, Harlem Unbound, HeroQuest, kobold press, loresmyth, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, onyx path publishing, peril planet, R. Talsorian Games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, Shanna Germain, the black hack!, the wildsea, traveller, warhammer, wizards of the coast, wizkids, zavvi

The new HeroQuest will be available in the UK after all

October 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Retailer Zavvi has exclusive to sell HeroQuest in the UK.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: HeroQuest, zavvi

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