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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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The Official Carnival Row RPG is free to download Gamers pick up the battle-axe as Barbarians of the Ruined Earth funds Green Ronin releases Threefold for Modern AGE Brutal Viking fantasy: A review of Svilland Genre Police: It’s Thriller Time

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The Official Carnival Row RPG is free to download

September 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game uses Monte Cooke’s Cypher System, which you’ll need to play. That’s the same mechanics as can be found in Invisible Sun, Numenera as well as popular supplements like Sean K. Renolds’ Priests of the Aeons.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Carnival Row, cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games

Gamers pick up the battle-axe as Barbarians of the Ruined Earth funds

September 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The world is nearly torn apart when an alien craft smashes into the moon, and the resulting rock shower pummels the planet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, kickstarters, the black hack!

Green Ronin releases Threefold for Modern AGE

September 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

There are alternative Earths, Otherworlds were science falters, demon controlled Netherworlds and less well-known places.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Green Ronin Publishing, Malcolm Sheppard, threefold

Brutal Viking fantasy: A review of Svilland

September 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If you like 5e and are tempted by a Vikings game, then I think you’ll like Svilland.

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

Genre Police: It’s Thriller Time

September 7, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It’s like something is lurking hidden, underneath, ready to come to the fore. If we look for it, will we ever stop being able to know the truth?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eclipse Phase, genre police

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #12

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let us retreat from the bitter winds of the outside place and concentrate on some decidedly warmer and in-door activities; tabletop roleplaying.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, baldur's gate, Catalyst Game Labs, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, ed greenwood, fantasy age, far away land rpg, Fat Goblin Games, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Jack Norris, Mystical Throne Entertainment, Origins Award, Owen Stephens, Philip J Reed, Polyhedra Games, Rick Loomis, Rising from the last war, routinely itemised, Shadowrun, Simian Circle Games, wizards of the coast

A look inside Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Photographs of an early copy of Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus shared on Twitter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, previews

Lovecraftian sub-classes trialled in new official D&D playtest

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Wizards of the Coast just doubled the size of their new D&D playtest.

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

Brexit and VAT changes on shipping may force board game Kickstarters to abandon the UK

September 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A no-deal Brexit will force international companies trying to fulfil Kickstarters in the UK to pay VAT, register with HM Revenue & Customs and maintain complex new tax records.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legal

Free to Download: Alien RPG goodies

September 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Free character sheets, spaceship templates, maps and Alien RPG wallpaper.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, alien rpg, Free League Publishing, free to download

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