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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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Monte Cook Games releases The Stars Are Fire

November 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The galaxy-spanning space opera adds creatures, new rules, character options as well as gear and tools suitable for a science-fiction campaign to your Cypher library.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bruce Cordell, cypher system, Monte Cook Games

The Lord of the Rings RPG scrapped as Cubicle 7 discontinue The One Ring

November 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We will cease publishing The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth™ in the first half of 2020.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, sophisticated games, the lord of the rings, The One Ring

D&D launches Psionics and Psychic playtest

November 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These new abilities aren’t magic. They’re not arcane. Psionics come from the mind.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #23

November 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week we look into security risk at Wizards of the Coast, a brand new Warhammer announcement from Games Workshop and how we can use B-Movies to inspire better campaign design.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dynamite Entertainment, Eberron, Genesis of Legend Publishing, humble bundle, Iron Crown Enterprises, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, Scarred Lands, Travis Legge, triple ace games, warhammer, warhammer: the old world, wizards of the coast, zweihander

Electric Bastionland RPG: From the creator of Into the Odd

November 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The rules are a modified version of Into the Odd, Chris isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and the bulk of Electric Bastionland is therefore 100 failed careers that you can randomly end up playing as.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chris McDowall, electric bastionland, kickstarters

Can Necromancers ever be good?

November 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Necromancers are wizards who communicate with and perhaps even summon the dead.

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

Randomly generate dangerous sci-fi sectors

November 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Generator has two components that work differently. The first is the visual map generator which requires you to roll d8 and d12, cross-reference the results and add the resulting element to your map.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, maps, rpg ideas

Judge Dredd owner creates board game division

November 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rebellion Unplugged’s first game will be Sniper Elite the Board Game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, rebellion, rebellion unplugged

Characters: Newbies vs Veterans

November 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Artist and comic strip writer Noob Mama has done it again, calling out a tabletop RPG truth.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, Kate Pfuhler Brown, n00b mama

The Pathfinder 1e Humble Bundle: $276 worth of downloads

November 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dynamite Entertainment and Paizo have put together a Humble Bundle which has hundreds of dollars worth of comics along with Pathfinder 1e downloads.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dynamite Entertainment, humble bundle, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

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