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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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Free samples of Fantastic Lairs spurs Kickstarter campaign on

June 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantastic Lairs has been kind enough to share some previews with Geek Native.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, James Introcaso, kickstarters, Mike Shea, monsters

Genre Police: Coming Up Short

June 1, 2020 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

One Shots are difficult. This is not the game on easy mode, if anyone has lead you to believe that, they’ve lied to you.

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

20 RPGs, 56% off: Tabletop Treehouse BLM Bundle

May 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

15 different designers have contributed 20 RPGs. It’s not a cheap bundle, coming in at $125, but the savings are impressive as these 20 games would usually retail for $284.99.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, itch.io

Mythic Odysseys of Theros contents shared

May 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is the Greek-inspired Theros that we were expecting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, magic the gathering, mythic odysseys of theros, wizards of the coast

Basic World Building: Design a Wilderness

May 31, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Having a world beyond the starting town and dungeon opens up more options for the PCs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Dungeons & Dragons, rpg tips

Handdrawn fantasy maps for sale

May 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The cartographer will also include rivers, lakes and waterfalls on the map and additional small elements like boats or sea monsters in the water.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, Etsy, maps

Free to Download: Fowl Play 5e adventure from Kobold Press

May 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To get this freebie, you need to signup to Kobold Press’ mailing list and when you do that, you’ll be sent the coupon code.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, kobold press

Cyberpunk Red publisher resurrects the Dream Park RPG’s scenario designer

May 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

R Talsorian like it so much that they’ve pulled it from old scans of Dream Park: The Roleplaying Game to make it available again.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games

Humblewood the 5e birdfolk setting is coming to Roll20

May 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can crow-like Corvum, hawk-like Raptor, or owl-like Strig, or one of the other Humblefolk species and have Roll20 manage your stats.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: hit point press, humblewood, roll20, virtual tabletop

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #50

May 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Routinely Itemised this week we catch up with PaizoCon Online, find out what the D&D movie has in store and ear about “choose your own adventure” audiobooks!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, castle falkenstein, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Eberron, foundry, Free League Publishing, free rpg day, Gary Gygax, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmerspace, Keith Baker, kobold press, luke gygax, Mutants & Masterminds, mythic odysseys of theros, obsidian portal, Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, soulmuppet, starfinder, studio agate, threefold

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