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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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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

How to find an LGBTQ+ creator in the tabletop industry for your next project

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Does it reflect poorly on roleplaying as an industry that such a list is needed in the first place?

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blue rose, Changeling: the Lost, Green Ronin Publishing, onyx path publishing, rpg ideas, uncaged

Vampire: The Masquerade becomes only the second RPG to win the Origins Award twice

June 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

An animated tour through the winners of the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: infographics, Origins Award, Origins Game Fair, Vampire: The Masquerade

Alien RPG: Critical Injuries table

June 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Alien RPG

In the Alien RPG, when you are knocked down to zero Health, roll a D66 and consult the critical injury table.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, alien rpg, Free League Publishing

Up your game’s wow factor with this gorgeous loot deck

June 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever had a D&D game grind to a halt as players stop to look up the stats of unfamiliar weapons and armour they’ve just looted?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, kickstarters, loresmyth

Brett Bullion’s stunning D&D 5e class character sheets

June 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Brett Bullion is an artist based in Austin. He favours dark fantasy art, citing influences like The Dark Crystal, Neil Gaiman, Lovecraft and the Banner Saga.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, Dungeons & Dragons

Genre Police: Party Like It’s 1984

June 16, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Dystopian fiction is often seen as a reaction to current trends. So can that have meaning inside the context of RPGs?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police

It’s 3am, and someone is going to kill you: The melancholy horror of Quietus Kickstarts

June 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A re-playable one-shot horror, with easy to learn rules that can be run with a GM and one or two players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forged in the dark, horror, kickstarters

The rainbow shine of these critical failure f*ck dice

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How mean is your DM when you roll a natural 1 on a d20?

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

Betray your friends: A review of Whales Destroying the World

June 15, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The bluffing is fun, gameplay easy and victory (usually) fast.

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

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