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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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Random Encounter Tables RPG Blog Carnival wrap-up

February 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Troll Cook by Lucas Örström

A summary of the contributions to the RPG Blog Carnival all about random encounter tables.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Jon Hodgson returns to Kickstarter for more map tiles

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can also select tile designs from the first Kickstarter, and that’ll make selecting your tiles quite a challenge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, Jon Hodgson, kickstarters

Beasts & Barbarians returns to Bundle of Holding

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The 2018 hit for Savage Worlds is back on Humble Bundle, and it is raising money for Ocean Conservancy.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #33

January 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summary with another D&D leak, free downloads and Matthew Mercer’s 2020 update to the Blood Hunter 5e class.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2000 AD, baldur's gate, board games, Call of Cthulhu, castle falkenstein, CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of, conan the barbarian, Coriolis, critical role, cubicle 7, deadlands, Descent into Avernus, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Jim Zub, laidback dungeon master, Matthew Mercer, Mike Myler, Modiphius Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, Sandy Petersen, Shades of Vengeance, soulbound, starfinder, Strontium Dog, Symbaroum, The One Ring, traveller, Vampire: The Masquerade

A giant family tree of tabletop RPGs

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Let’s say you had the time to investigate hundreds of tabletop games, plug in their publication dates and work out how each one was related to another.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: stats

Surprise your players with an orchestral theme for their D&D characters

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As Dungeons & Dragons, and roleplaying in general, has boomed in recent years so has the demand for custom artwork. Players and DMs are commissioning portraits of characters, hiring cartographers to produce professional maps of homebrew fantasy realms and indie designers invest time looking for illustrators to bring monsters to life. What about the audio […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

A haunted house for your Dungeon Master’s pocket

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Haunt from Phil Beckwith is an adamantine best-seller at the Dungeon Masters Guild.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, phone pdf

Dangerously beautiful Trophy RPG funds on Kickstarter

January 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Trophy Dark is a one-shot horror, the PCs are doomed treasure hunters in a dangerous forest, Trophy Gold is more traditional dungeon-crawling, and Trophy Loom is a system-agnostic setting guide.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, trophy

Paizo Publishing release free bonus content for Lost Omens: Gods & Magic

January 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lost Omens: Gods & Magic is a 128-paged supplement for Pathfinder second edition that is packed with new domains, feats and spells so you can bring characters to life through their faith.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder

D&D: Stats for animated armour full of bees go viral

January 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As for strengths; watch out for the bee missile. This ranged weapon attack has a +2 to hit, a range of 15/30 feet on one target and with a Hit of 10 (3d6) poison damage.

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

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