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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.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

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The best selling modern genre RPGs of 2019

December 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These are the top ten selling modern genre RPGs, supplements and accessories published this year at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, Changeling: the Lost, dragon turtle games, drivethrurpg, night horrors, onyx path publishing, scion, Shadowrun

Tumble your shiny polyhedrons through a Druidic dice tower

December 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Something you can use while your players are exploring through elf-haunted woods or werebear protected forests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Etsy

Genre Police: Remembering the G

December 22, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

We sometimes forget that RP comes with a G at the end, that part of its structure and medium is that it is a GAME.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, pandemic

A fighting school shows D&D players how small a 5 by 5 square actually is

December 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fighters in training demonstrate just how confining the traditional D&D 5 by 5 square actually is in combat.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #27

December 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Weekly RPG news for busy people. A bullet tour through the most popular character sheets and RPGs of the year, silver dice and toy eating Christmas trees.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, CRISPR Monkey Studios, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, Dungeon & Dragons, en publishing, genefunk 2090, handiwork games, Iron Crown Enterprises, mage hand press, patrick rothfuss, routinely itemised, tabletops & tentacles, the adventure zone, The One Ring, the sixth gun, watchmen, wizards of the coast, woin

The best selling horror RPGs of 2019

December 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

… and who are the scary monsters?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Cthulhu Mythos, Delta Green, Eclipse Phase, horror, hunters entertainment, joseph mccullough, liminal, Modiphius Entertainment, night horrors, onyx path publishing, petersen games, posthuman studios, rangers of shadow deep, Sandy Petersen, schwalb entertainment

Tabletops & Tentacles are coming

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletops and Tentacles is my tribute to the magazines I loved growing up – RPG adventures and resources, tabletop games, short fiction, film reviews, interviews with artists and creators and a lot of bad jokes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, tabletops & tentacles

Become a magical girl in Dungeons & Dragons

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Magic Moon Sorcerer supplement is just a bit of fun. It costs only $1. However, it is an actual attempt to build a balanced and somewhat fantasy appropriate magic girl for D&D.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons

Evil D&D company unleashes the Toy Eater monster

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Toy Eater

It looks like a decorated tree but is actually a CR 1/8 monster.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Realm Storytellers, Dungeons & Dragons, monsters

The adult A|State RPG about is about to return

December 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A|State is a gothic horror of a sci-fi. The game is set in The City, and you cannot leave. It’s a game that came with “For Mature Readers” warning on it.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: astate, Contested Ground Studios, handiwork games, Jon Hodgson

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