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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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Virtual Frog God Day scheduled for May 31st with limited places

May 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Frog God Games have announced an online games day but warned there will be fewer than 150 tickets available.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, discord, frog god games

The Stargate tabletop RPG has been delayed

May 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The planned Kickstarter for the game will move back to the winter of 2020. The game is now expected to be released in 2021.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: stargate, Wyvern Gaming

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #48

May 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news and a newly launched RPG convention calendar to keep track of all these new projects. Catch up with Routinely Itemised.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, Bully Pulpit Games, Chaosium, charity, critical role, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, exploring eberron, fiasco, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, grimmerspace, Keith Baker, kobold press, lynne hardy, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, Skeletonkey games, star trek adventures, the lost citadel, the witcher, Trudvang Adventures, twilight: 2000, wizards of the coast, World Anvil

Dark sci-fi Grimmerspace opens for playtest

May 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Owen KC Stephens, who was design lead on Starfinder and is the development lead for the Character Operations Manual is running playtest.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: grimmerspace, iron gm games, owen k. c. stephens, Paizo Publishing, playtest, sci-fi, starfinder

Helmgast’s Troubleshooters encounter no trouble on Kickstarter

May 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The lockdown delayed Kickstarter for The Troubleshooters, an RPG based on (don’t say Tintin) European comics and set in the 60s is finally live, and Kickstarter likes it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Helmgast, kickstarters, the troubleshooters

Take the neighbourhood back: Cat Power! RPG

May 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You play as a magical cat in Ursidice’s Cat Power RPG.

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Mystery and mysticism to get excited about: Exalted Vales for 5e

May 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if witches must weave your dreams before you can rest properly? A mystic 5e setting.

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

Small World of Warcraft board game looks deadly cute

May 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the boardgame players can pick races from either the Horde or the Alliance, combining special powers and forces.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Days of Wonder, World of Warcraft

Twilight: 2000 4e RPG announced by Free League Publishing

May 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free League will now publish the 4th edition but have said they will go back to the roots of the game, with some changes, including providing a boxed set.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Angus Abranson, black monk, Far Future Enterprises, Free League Publishing, Tomas Härenstam, twilight: 2000

Art and Darkness: Shadows of Esteren RPG summons Dark Romanticism

May 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As conventions are cancelled, gaming companies are responding in different ways. Some are running their own online events, some sob quietly in the corner and Agate have taken Shadows of Esteren back to Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Shadows of Esteren, studio agate

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