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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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Rebellion Unplugged debuts Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age Beyond Cataclysm: Skies of Belief TTRPG announced Blood, Sand & Gold: 4 x 5e one-shot adventures Pandora Celeste: Pirates & Salvage expansion coming to the sci-fi monster board game Unlock worlds of Adventure: The Sine Nomine corebooks bundle returns

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Rebellion Unplugged debuts Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age

May 30, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Rebellion, the British comic book, computer game and growing tabletop publishing empire, bought the world’s second oldest TTRPG, Tunnels & Trolls, two years ago.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rebellion, rebellion unplugged, tunnels & trolls, uk games expo

Beyond Cataclysm: Skies of Belief TTRPG announced

May 30, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Skies of Belief is about exploring other cultures, lands, and traditions, and does so through various modes of play. There’s even a solo mode.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: uk games expo

Blood, Sand & Gold: 4 x 5e one-shot adventures

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From the mind of Tales of Ereden comes Blood, Sand & Gold, a collection of four 5e one-shot adventures set in their fantasy world.

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

Pandora Celeste: Pirates & Salvage expansion coming to the sci-fi monster board game

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Guntower Games are currently at UKGE and stand 2-372, where they have their Gamefound-funded Pandora Celeste for purchase.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Unlock worlds of Adventure: The Sine Nomine corebooks bundle returns

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kevin Crawford’s recipe for success is straightforward in principle though demanding in practice. He advocates for identifying a unique niche – for him, system-independent sandbox gaming tools – then producing work with intense dedication, or what he terms “bibliomanic intensity.”

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, kevin crawford, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, worlds without number

Minty Noodles: An early look at Interstellar Adventures

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Harriet Cody and Cole Jefferies are a designer and computer game programmer partnership at the Expo to launch Interstellar Adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, uk games expo

Genre Police: A Sense Of Place

May 29, 2025 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

When we look at any scene in an RPG, it is taking place somewhere.

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

UKGE Preview: Unfringed’s Fetching Feathers

May 29, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Experience a novel take on seasonal change by rotating and upgrading location cards each round/season to reflect changing food availability, whilst carefully balancing a variety of bonuses, from bird buddy benefits to full flock freebies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, previews, uk games expo

Trouble On The Tempus: Minor Disaster Games launch time-travelling Kickstarter (exclusive pictures)

May 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At last year’s UK Games Expo, Minor Disaster Games showed off a cooperative time travel disaster management board game called Trouble On The Tempus. Now, even as UK Games Expo 25 opens, the publisher has launched a Kickstarter for the clever game.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters, uk games expo

Serenissima Obscura: Magical Renaissance and Dark Secrets is a massive setting

May 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vortex Verlag has launched Serenissima Obscura on BackerKit, and the scale of the magical Renaissance and dark secrets of the setting is impressive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ars magica, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, serenissima obscura, Vortex Verlag

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