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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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Page 599 of Geek Native’s Tabletop & RPGs archive (8,450 total articles).

The GamesFest RPG convention descends into far-right bigotry on Twitter

October 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Twitter has begun deleting some of the most extreme posts from GamesFest, a UK RPG convention.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: haunted west, twitter

Haunted West, a Historical Weird West RPG rustles up a posse

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The sub-title for the Kickstarter is about amplifying the voices of the forgotten people of the old west. The game’s timeline re-writes history and the fate of the South after the American civil war, putting black farmers in charge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chris spivey, Darker Hue Studios, Dennis Detwiller, haunted west, Kenneth Hite, kickstarters, weird west

OSR fantasy RPG Humble Bundle

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The discount site Humble Bundle has $624 worth of OSR RPG goodies in a bundle. It’s a $1 to get a slice of the action.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: frog god games, humble bundle, kobold press, Mythmere Games, North Wind Adventures, Old School Renaissance, sales, Troll Lord Games

Ulisses North America acquires Space: 1889

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Creator, Frank Chadwick, is on board with the deal too

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: clockwork publishing, game designers workshop, space 1889, Ulisses North America

The Nuadan Chronicles: Creating Believable Female Characters in RPGs

September 30, 2019 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

There has been a great deal of discussion online and off about making and playing well-rounded characters that happen to also be women, especially when it comes to male roleplayers and game masters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs

Cover reveals for Lex Arcana

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lex Arcana is set in an alternative Earth in which the Roman Empire did not fall and where magic and monsters are real.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: lex arcana, quality games

Stargate Roleplaying Game now open to private playtesting

September 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wyvern Gaming has confirmed they’ve finished the first draft of the rules and are now looking for feedback.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: playtest, stargate, Wyvern Gaming

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #15

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve made it to Friday again and earned a chance to lean back, take a deep breath and scroll through seven days of RPG industry news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: agon, anvl, Arc Dream Publishing, astral tabletop, black void, Chaosium, cortex, cypher system, Delta Green, dndbeyond, drivethrurpg, Evil Hat Productions, fandom, fantasy flight games, genesys, green ronin, king arthur pendragon, Monte Cook Games, pathfinder, routinely itemised, threefold, Usagi Yojimbo

Sanguine Productions will release Usagi Yojimbo RPG 2nd edition

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG is set in Stan Sakai’s Eisner winning anthropomorphic fantasy Edo period Japan. The comic series follows Miyamoto Usagi, a swordsrabbit with the heart of a hero.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Sanguine Productions, Usagi Yojimbo

Monte Cook Games release new Cypher System core rules

September 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the heart of the system is the promise that GMs get to spend more time inventing exciting stories and characters and less time playing with numbers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, Monte Cook Games

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