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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 best selling pulp RPGs of 2019

December 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to this quick analysis of the best selling pulp RPGs and supporting material published this year at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, dragon turtle games, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, hunters entertainment, onyx path publishing, samjoko publishing, Son of Oak Game Studio, The Design Mechanism

Learning with Comics: Master the Fate Core RPG

December 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Eye of Cinder is a helpful collection of comics that teach you stuff.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Evil Hat Productions, fate core

Can the Dungeon Master have a player character?

December 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

It has become a controversial subject, but Dungeon Masters and players are two distinct types of participants in a tabletop RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, rpg tips

Modiphius announce a Deluxe Edition Rangers of Shadow Deep

December 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In it, you control soldiers exploring the dangers of Shadow Deep as it relentlessly expands and consumes anything that gets in its way.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: joseph mccullough, Modiphius Entertainment, rangers of shadow deep, skirmish

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

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