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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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WizKids unveil more D&D Icons of the Realms 13th Age double teams the Bundle of Holding The first-ever Lady Death game funds on Kickstarter The sleeping giant awakens – Osprey Games gets into RPGs Werewolf: The Apocalypse awarded to Hunters Entertainment

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WizKids unveil more D&D Icons of the Realms

December 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

WizKids’ pre-painted series D&D Icons of the Realms will expand again in April 2020.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models, wizkids

13th Age double teams the Bundle of Holding

December 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

D&D fans might know the game as it was created by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, who were the lead designers of D&D 3e and 4e. 13th Age combines traditional bits of d20 with story-focused rules.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, 13th Age Bestiary, bundle of holding, jonathan tweet, Rob Heinsoo

The first-ever Lady Death game funds on Kickstarter

December 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a battle board game that can be played solo or with two friends.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters

The sleeping giant awakens – Osprey Games gets into RPGs

December 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An interview with Philip Smith, Head of Osprey Games, the games company moving into RPGs and owned by the publishing giant Bloomsbury.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: frostgrave, osprey games, romance of the perilous land, Scott Malthouse

Werewolf: The Apocalypse awarded to Hunters Entertainment

December 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the game, players are Garou, creatures born of both the material world and the Umbra, the spirit world. The world, Gaia, is dying, and the shapeshifting wolves are divided on how to save the planet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: hunters entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, werewolves, white wolf publishing

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #25

December 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

News about Rogue Trooper, a brand new computer RPG for Pathfinder, and WotC confirm Dice, Camera, Action! will not return after being hit by a sex scandal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, amazing tales, Ben Aaronovitch, broken shield, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, icarus, nibiru, owlcat games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Rivers of London, rogue trooper, routinely itemised, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, wizards of the coast

Thirsty Sword Lesbians RPG announced by Evil Hat

December 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Thirsty Sword Lesbians battle the Lady of Chains when her enforcers march down from the frosty north.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: April Kit Walsh, Evil Hat Productions, Thirsty Sword Lesbians

RPG Rules that affect the use of fictional violence

December 4, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

A variety of RPGs provide mechanical effects that affect the use of violence in a game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Delta Green, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, Robert J. Schwalb, rpg ideas, Shadow of the Demon Lord, star wars

Steve Jackson’s Car Wars is firing on all cylinders

December 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nearly half a million pledge and over a month still for the funds to drive in.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Steve Jackson Games

April Fool’s joke “Barkham Horror” gets turned into a real Fantasy Flight Game

December 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sometimes, ideas have power. Sometimes, concepts can take on a life of their own. Each whisper or murmur lends itself to making the unreal, real.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arkham Horror, card games, fantasy flight games

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