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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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SoulMuppet offers a free taste of despair with the Doomspiral RPG quickstart Rulings, not rules: A deep dive into the Advanced Adventures megabundle Camp Make Believe, a kids’ RPG from ENNIE-nominees, heads to BackerKit Competition: Adventuring Family – A Family Therapy Role Playing Game RPG Publisher Spotlight: Empyreal Media Productions and Julien Pirou

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SoulMuppet offers a free taste of despair with the Doomspiral RPG quickstart

July 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Doomspiral is the work of writer Nick Spence, who has previously worked on titles like Gangs of Titan City and Best Left Buried, with illustrations from Dwyn D’Alton Goode.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, soulmuppet

Rulings, not rules: A deep dive into the Advanced Adventures megabundle

July 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Advanced Adventures Megabundle offers a trove of 43 classic dungeon crawls specifically built for the OSRIC system.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Expeditious Retreat Press

Camp Make Believe, a kids’ RPG from ENNIE-nominees, heads to BackerKit

July 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new game is called Frances & Ġorġ: Camp Make Believe, and it’s heading to BackerKit for crowdfunding this August.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, the wanderer's tome

Competition: Adventuring Family – A Family Therapy Role Playing Game

July 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last week, we previewed the family-friendly and therapeutic TTRPG Adventuring Family. This week we’re giving away copies of the book.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: competitions

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Empyreal Media Productions and Julien Pirou

July 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Interviews with talent like Julien Pirou make me proud of the six years of Spotlight and the patrons who vote each month for candidates.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: spotlight, Ubisoft

Acheron: Grimpunk TTRPG with nightmare horrors

July 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dark World Studios has, finally, put Acheron back on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron, dark world studios, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPG #318

July 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This month’s roleplaying game news summary. We cover the sale of 7th Sea to Studio Agate, a lawsuit involving Luke Gygax, and a significant delay for a new Eberron book from Wizards of the Coast.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers, Gary Gygax, kevin crawford, legal, luke gygax, routinely itemised, sine nomine publishing, studio agate

The End of an Era: Umut Çomak steps down from DRS Publishing

July 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Turkish founder, who established the company once known as Dream Realm Storytellers, leaves behind a significant legacy in the tabletop roleplaying games industry.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers

Roll20 unveils D&D 2024 Loot Manager in early access for Pro Subscribers

July 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Loot Manager is only available for the D&D 2024 sheet. That’s because the new tech behind the 2024 sheet lets us build features we just can’t do with the 2014 version.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, roll20

Save the village: Mistwraith, a Dragonbane adventure

July 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Colorado Springs-based Jason Duff has hit the funding target for Mistwraith, a Dragonbane adventure on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragonbane, kickstarters

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