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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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Wizards of the Coast dramatically escalate their playtesting

November 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Wizards of the Coast have provided 13-pages of download for class feature variants.

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

PEG expands their Savage Worlds ventures

November 7, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher of Savage Worlds has expanded out of tabletop publishing and into fiction, hired a community manager, expanded the forums, created new media licenses…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, savage worlds, Shane Lacy Hensley, Shanna Germain

Personalise your dice tray; “TPK doom box”, “World of Pain” or perhaps “DM Jane”

November 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Over on Etsy, retailer Dungeonheart has a perfect 5/5 score after nearly 150 reviews and they’re selling personalised dice trays.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Etsy

Pathfinder launch Advanced Player’s Guide playtest

November 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG is considering introducing four new classes in July 2020 and is asking the community to try them out in advance to make sure they work as well as can be expected.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, playtest

Vaesen: The Nordic Horror RPG of unseen monsters

November 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Is 13 a spooky number? That’s how many minutes it took for Free League Publishing’s latest RPG, Vaesen, to fund on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, horror, kickstarters, Nils Hintze, vaesen

Savage Worlds: Explorers of the Fantastic

November 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Explorers of the Fantastic the Allied bombing of Ninoshima island in 1945 opens up a rift into the Hollow Earth, and it is through the vent that giant monsters emerge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Battlefield Press, Darren Watts, savage worlds

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #20

November 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the 20th round-up of weekly RPG news here on Geek Native and around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, Call of Cthulhu, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Matt Colville, roll20, routinely itemised, stargate, tuque, uk games expo, wizards of the coast

2,250,000 square-feet of battle maps free to explore

November 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve already been treated to one million square feet of RPG battle maps and then one million square feet of volcanic island battle maps from cartographer Zatnikotel (aka Lez Johnson). Now we have 1 million more as The One Million: Dungeon Dimensions series has just gone live, for free, on Deviant Art. The name is […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, maps, Zatnikotel

Can you survive the medieval zombie apocalypse as a cripple?

October 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Usually in a zombie game the key to success is mobility – don’t get trapped.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FUDGE, kickstarter, zombies

This app hopes that you get paid for running D&D

October 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a matching making system that facilitates payments to independent contractors.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, virtual tabletop

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