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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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Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 480).

Strata Miniatures’ competition reveals Wave 2 of combat wheelchair minis

September 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The first prize is a full set of wave 1 wheelchair minis and each of the first two Epic Encounter sets. That’s over £140 ($190) worth of loot.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: minis, sara thompson, Steamforged Games, strata miniatures

Level Up: EN Publishing to bring Heritage and Culture to D&D in place of fantasy races

September 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first step in the origin creation process is deciding on a heritage.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, level up

Silver Vine Publishing launches: Publishing indie Japanese TTRPGs in English

September 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Silver Vine Publishing will specialise in bringing indie Japanese tabletop roleplaying games to DriveThruRPG and publish them in English.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: silver vine publishing, summon skate

Cyberpunk & Sorcery: Lowlife 2090

September 5, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are six races; Human, Elf, Dwarf, Spriggan, Skorn and Minotaur, which is an unusual mix

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #64

September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yeet!

A glance at some noteworthy RPG releases this week along with yet another busy RPG news section. Kickstarter seems to get more alive with each passing day, recovering strongly from the lockdown slump.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arion Games, astral tabletop, beam saber, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, Darklight Interactive, diego pisa artworks, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Eloy Lasanta, en publishing, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Fighting Fantasy, forbidden lands, gallant knight games, lex arcana, Matt Forbeck, mythic odysseys of theros, Newt Newport, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, quality games, rime of the frostmaiden, Robert J. Schwalb, routinely itemised, savage worlds, savage worlds adventurer's guild, Shotguns & Sorcery, starfinder, tasha's cauldron of everything, the grinning frog, the wagadu chronicles, wizards of the coast, wrath & glory

D&D Celebration 2020 to address recent controversies

September 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We know from one of the speakers that these panels will not shy away from some of the hot button issues that emerged this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, daniel kwan, Dungeons & Dragons

The future of the hex crawl? 50+ Free and procedurally generated battle maps

September 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A glance at what the near future of virtual tabletop cartograph could look like (or for people with lots of colour ink!)

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, virtual tabletop

Light Strikers: Transmedia RPG project launches

September 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In Light Strikers, you play as a superhero champion, fighting to protect the world from a harmful invader and exploring the world through adventuring.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Free to Download: The Wagadu Chronicles’ Afropunk D&D

September 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Twin Drums describe their concept for The Wagadu Chronicles as fantasy based in African myth, rather than European.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: afropunk, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, the wagadu chronicles

Pandemonium Noir: Weird Tales Magazine, where Cthulhu and Conan were born, now has an RPG

September 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The nearly 100-year-old magazine that first published Call of Cthulhu and dozens of other weird stories is making the first RPG from Dead Jack and with Ravendesk. It’s Pandemonium Noir.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, kickstarters

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