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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 to Download: Ars Magica 4th Edition

April 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Atlas Games are giving away a digital copy of Ars Magica 4th edition in exchange to signing up to their newsletter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, Atlas Games, free to download

Random dungeon generator compatible with real and virtual tabletops

April 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Crooked Staff Terrain has a free online dungeon generator, virtual tabletop files and print-and-paste downloads for cardboard dungeons too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, generators, Patreon

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #43

April 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Official rule changes to D&D, a look at the tabletop version of Dishonored and TTRPG news from around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Dishonored, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, fasa, frostgrave, hunters entertainment, inkarnate, Modiphius Entertainment, Nightfall Games, Origins Game Fair, osprey games, red scar publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, sine nomine publishing, SLA Industries, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, wizards of the coast

Osprey to publish Those Dark Places RPG

April 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game will use a single D6 for its mechanic. The rules engine is Hicks’ One Dice Determines Success system, but it’s expected Those Dark Places won’t reference it as such.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jonathan hicks, osprey games, those dark places

Pay What You Want: Crystal Heart RPG (and free webcomic)

April 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The tabletop RPG setting, which, unsurprisingly uses Savage Worlds, was published on DriveThruRPG less than a year ago and has a recommended price of $20.00.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, savage worlds

Free to Download: Lost Mine of Phandelver on Roll20

April 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Characters start out at level 1 and this lightly modified Roll20 version (which requires you use Roll20) there are five pre-genned characters, creatures with stats and click-to-roll actions and if you have a pro/plus account then dynamic lighting on the maps.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, roll20, wizards of the coast

Tales from the Loop board game hits Kickstarter goal

April 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher of the Tales from the Loop RPG asked for SEK 500,000 to fund the project and already has SEK 1,150,000 pledged.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, Free League Publishing, kickstarters, tales from the loop

Hunters release Werewolf writers video

April 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the video these writers reminisce on Werewolf, talking about why the game is important to them and what their favourite tribes have been.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cat evans, Elisa Teague, hunters entertainment, ivan van norman, matthew dawkins, Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Free to Download: D&D material from Wizards of the Coast

April 8, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizards of the Coast will be posting new freebies for D&D every day.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, free to download, wizards of the coast

Wizards of the Coast correct four D&D books

April 7, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Xanthar's Guide to Everything

Errata published for Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, Out of the Abyss and even the Player’s Handbook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

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