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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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BRP OGL: Call of Cthulhu can now power your RPG

March 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Chaosium has released a systems reference document which sets out those rules you can include in your own game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium

Free to Download: XenoShyft board game from CMON

March 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

XenoShyft has an aliens feel to it. It’s a deck-building game and a resource management game at the same time, and the challenge is to get the balance right so you can withstand nine waves of, increasingly challenging, alien assault.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, cmon, free to download

Free to Download: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc (2e)

March 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Characters in the game aren’t just humans trying to save the planet but monsters and demons too. After all, says the game, these creatures call Earth home as well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, monsters, third eye games

Free to Download: Nine Worlds from Scythe designer Jamey Stegmaier

March 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rather nicely, this is a game you could play remotely with friends over Houseparty, Skype, Discord video, Google Hangouts, etc.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, free to download, stonemaier games

Tabletop Scotland reschedules to avoid Covid-19/UK Gaming Expo clash

March 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop Scotland has revealed that their new dates will be 10th and 11th October 2020, at the Dewars Centre in Perth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, tabletop scotland

Free to Download: Amazing Tales quickstart and adventures

March 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amazing Tales was the most popular family RPG of 2018 on DriveThruRPG and is one of the bookshop’s few adamantine best sellers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing tales, free to download, Martin Lloyd

Free to Download: Castles & Crusades Players Handbook 7th printing

March 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Troll Lord Games have made the 194-paged PDF edition of the 7th edition of their popular Castles & Crusades RPG a free download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: castles & crusades, free to download, Troll Lord Games

Diamond halts comic book and game delivery as the pandemic worsens

March 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game distribution company it owns, Alliance Game Distributors, is also shutting down until further notice.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Diamond Comic Distributors

World Wide Wrestling finds Kickstarter gold

March 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t need an in-depth knowledge of wrestling to play the game. You just have to like a bit of action and soap opera level drama.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

20GB of Roll20 and Astral Tabletop compatible maps and tokens

March 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matts Massive Map Menagerie is 20 GB of free to download (or raid as needed), copyright compliant tokens and maps for your use.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astral tabletop, Fantasy Grounds, free to download, roll20, virtual tabletop

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