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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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Apocalypse achieved in 7 minutes – Twilight: 2000 on Kickstarter

August 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2020 ENnies Publisher of the Year, Free League Publishing, has launched their next Kickstarter. It’s for the fourth edition of Twilight: 2000. It funded in 7 minutes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black monk, Far Future Enterprises, Free League Publishing, kickstarters, twilight: 2000

ICv2’s latest best-selling RPG chart is full of mysteries

August 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

ICv2 is a site about the tabletop hobby industry (board games, card games, wargames, etc) which is primarily intended for shops and press.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: icv2

Making wilderness travel exciting: Wonderous Expeditions – Forests launches

August 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The book’s contents will help a GM to describe the environment in great detail, but also how to make the environment challenge the players in fun ways, instead of resorting to yet another bandit attack.

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

Dark Worlds: The Ritual D&D adventure review

August 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A review of Dark Worlds: The Ritual. This set of adventures brings the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu mythos to fantasy heroes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, reviews, Sandy Petersen

D&D supplement looks to normalise mask-wearing

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Playing a high Int character and not able to lug around as much magical armour and equipment as everyone? What if there was a lightweight alternative article of clothing that offered up a tactically useful place to have some magic?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons

Yog-Sothothery in Rome: Cthulhu Invictus in the Bundle of Holding

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Set late Age of the Antonines (AD 145), at the peak of the Roman Empire when ancient wizards fought to defeat death and explorers brought back dangerous artefacts from the remains of alien civilisations, only a few fight to hold back the darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium

Free to Download: XII – Inner Demons TTRPG playtest

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

XI is a survivor horror RPG about facing demons, your inner demons in only 12 days.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, kickstarters, XII: Inner Demons

Game of Thrones RPG fans take note: Green Ronin announces the Chronicle System Guild

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Guild allows third-party publishers to make, sell and keep some of the profit from Chronicle System supplements via DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chronicle system, drivethrurpg, game of thrones, Green Ronin Publishing, sword chronicle

Dragon dice and monster alert: Book of Creatures

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Book of Creatures is a homage to fantasy bestiaries. It’s a large book, 400-pages with more than 200 illustrations and 5e rulesets for each.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, fateforge, kickstarters, monsters, studio agate

Free to Download: Harbinger Beta RPG rules

August 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Harbinger is a grim, weird and wonderful science-fantasy RPG and it uses D&D’s 5e ruleset.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Absolute Tabletop, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, sci-fi

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