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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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Free League share Alien RPG vehicle designs ahead of a beta launch

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Alien series has made ships like the Nostromo and Sulaco famous, and now Free League have shared some of their vehicle designs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, alien rpg, Free League Publishing, sci-fi, spaceships, xenomorph

Nightfall games to publish SLA Industries 2nd edition

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

SLA Industries 2e will come to us via a Kickstarter and that launch date for that is September 17th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Nightfall Games, SLA Industries

Bloomsbury owned Osprey will launch two RPG series this year

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Osprey Games, publishers of the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell board game, have their first two RPGs due out.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: osprey games, romance of the perilous land, Scott Malthouse

Wizards of the Coast deny reports they’ll be changing D&D’s Ranger class

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Bjorn and Huntress

Yesterday, in an article about the forthcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 computer game and an interview with D&D boss Mike Mearls, Kotaku concluded the core class would see some changes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: baldur's gate, baldur's gate III, Dungeons & Dragons, wizards of the coast

Dangerous and melancholy, Bleak Spirit breaks the traditional RPG model

June 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The traditional approach to tabletop roleplaying is to have one person as the coordinator acting as storyteller or Gamemaster and everyone else controlling player characters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Angry geeks manipulate Barrage’s Board Game Geek rating in protest

June 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 13 Comments

Do you support the protest or is the manipulation of the game’s score on Board Game Geek inappropriate?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game geek, kickstarters

Anime RPG BESM Naked announced as a gateway game

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The idea behind BESM Naked isn’t just to show the front cover model wearing fewer clothes but to produce a simpler and cheaper game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: big eyes small mouth, Dyskami

Judge for yourself: A look inside Roll20’s D&D Acquisitions Incorporated

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Roll20 features include Charactermancer support for the new race Acquisitions Incorporated adds and the 5 new backgrounds.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: previews, roll20, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

It’s all about speed: Wizard Thieves racing through Kickstarter

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The main thing about Wizard Thieves is that it’s a speed game, about your reflexes and dexterity.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, kickstarters

Warlord Games and Mythicos Studios join to from Warlord Mythicos Studios

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ambition is to get Warlord Mythicos Studios in every major US metropolitan area and build a global presence for the brand in its entertainment, gaming, products and venue business.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Beyond the Gates of Antares, Rick Priestley, warlord games

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