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Page 530 of Geek Native’s Tabletop & RPGs archive (8,450 total articles).

Why D&D is a better game with Ancestry & Culture

June 16, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 7 Comments

You don’t have to work hard to persuade me that D&D would be a better and more flexible game if its rules were somehow able to adjust to fit each new supplement.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arcanist Press, Dungeons & Dragons

Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary: Chaosium publishes 480-page Malleus Monstrorum

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cthulhu, Malleus Monstrorum

Free to Download: Birds of a Feather 5e adventure

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The characters are on the trail of Yvette Bell who is rather too prone to creating new and bizarre animals and leaving them to terrorise the locals.

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

Free to Download: Teaching and Therapy aids for family RPG Amazing Tales

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s good news as there are now two official Amazing Tales supplements from people who can speak with authority on teaching and therapy with children.

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

First look at Soulbound’s Shadows in the Mist

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You don’t need to wait until all adventures are written, and the book is ready. Promise you’ll buy the book and Cubicle 7 will start to feed you the adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, shadows in the mist, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar

Amazon has 3 for 2 on D&D books and is taking pre-orders on Rime of the Frostmaiden

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Amazon has a blank cover image for the book but confirms it will be due in September and announced at D&D Live.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

An interview with Sandy Petersen: Adding Cthulhu, cats and dreams to D&D

June 15, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Petersen Games now makes a range of games, many of them are Cthulhu related with titles like Sandy Petersen’s Cthulhu Mythos and Unlocking Insanity.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Dungeons & Dragons, petersen games, Sandy Petersen

The Fundamentals of Being a Dungeon Master

June 14, 2020 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

The role of the Dungeon Master (DM) is to keep the campaign compelling and fun for the players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

White Wolf’s iconic anime RPG just got a new Celestial Exalt

June 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Exalted was first published by White Wolf back in 2001 and merged some western high fantasy style with lots of anime. In the game, characters are potent beings, chosen by a deity to fight for them. The core rules focus on the Solar Exalted, those chosen by the Unconquered Sun. As powerful as they are, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: exalted, storytellers vault

Monte Cook Games’ Heist on Miracle IV raises money for BLM

June 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Heist on Miracle IV, the characters’ patron becomes certain that proof of alien intelligence has been found on the research station Miracle IV. She pays good money for the PCs to go fetch it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, Monte Cook Games, sci-fi

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