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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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Pokemon card collection sold for a record $107,010 Published a stat block?  D&D are sending takedowns as a legal challenge brews Grim Hollow: A grim fantasy setting using D&D rules Lords and Lands expands The Witcher TTRPG with a GM screen and extra rules Genre Police: We’re All Out Of Bubblegum

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Pokemon card collection sold for a record $107,010

August 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are less than 50 cards of some of the Pokemon in this set. It’s unknown how many have been preserved at this level of perfection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: money, pokemon

Published a stat block? D&D are sending takedowns as a legal challenge brews

August 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Is it legal to publish stat blocks?

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

Grim Hollow: A grim fantasy setting using D&D rules

August 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Guide is over 200 pages of material, and it can be used to run adventures in the setting of Etharis or by DMs looking to create their own dark fantasy games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, ghostfire gaming, grim hollow, kickstarters

Lords and Lands expands The Witcher TTRPG with a GM screen and extra rules

August 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

New rules for Nobles as a profession, Halflings as a price and a shiny GM screen.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cd projekt red, gm screens, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

Genre Police: We’re All Out Of Bubblegum

August 11, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

But let’s be honest, sometimes you just wanna blow stuff up and fight all the enemies in widescreen sprawling combats that define your character as a complete and total ass-kicker.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: feng shui, genre police, rpg tips

Shadowrun’s Sixth World begins with a takeover

August 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Trailer video for Shadowrun 6e urges people to log off the Matrix.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Shadowrun, teasers

Resist & Remember: Weimar is an RPG that remembers the importance of punching Nazis in the face

August 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If this Kickstarter is successful, there will be games when people fought the fascists such as Resist & Remember: Stonewall or Resist & Remember: Nat Turner.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #8

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the first weekly round-up of RPG news and discoveries since Gen Con happened.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Deborah Ann Woll, Eberron, ENnies, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, geek & sundry, gen con, genesys, green ronin, Keith Baker, lord of the rings, Marisha Ray, Newt Newport, Nightfall Games, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, raging swan press, red scar publishing, routinely itemised, SLA Industries, the adventure zone, the lord of the rings, The One Ring, titansgrave, Wil Wheaton, wizards of the coast

What is the Matt Mercer effect?

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Matt Mercer

It has become such a commonly used phrase that “Mercer Effect” entered the Urban Dictionary this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, matt mercer

Cubicle 7 reveal The One Ring: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Collector’s Edition

August 8, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Collector’s Edition is leather-bound and emblazoned with the One RIng script picked out in silver foil-stamped Tengwar.

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

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