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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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Game Science: Story structure as network graphs

April 7, 2019 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Good adventure design is essentially a structured story that captivates the audience. And story structure is in its most straightforward nature a sequence of events placed chronologically by the designer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

The next Dungeons & Dragons storyline and The Descent

April 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The next Dungeons & Dragons storyline is coming and we’ll learn more about it in a heavily streamed live extravaganza next month.

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

Chaosium buys the 7th Sea RPG

April 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

All of the 7th Sea product and merch will now be moved to Chaosium’s warehouses and shippers who will take over fulfilment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Chaosium, John Wick, John Wick Presents

Altered Carbon tabletop RPG due out in 2020

April 1, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The RPG will have direct tie-ins with the second series of the show which is expected to air on Netflix in 2019.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: altered carbon, hunters entertainment, ivan van norman, Renegade Game Studios

Contagion Chronicle: The setting that enables World of Darkness crossovers

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gamers in the World of Darkness universe have long experimented with crossovers. It’s hard to do without making some sacrifices, though, as the various supernatural powers in the multiple settings are designed to be at odds with one another.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, matthew dawkins, onyx path publishing

Keeping bounty hunters busy: Villains & Lairs review

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inspired by stock art available on the DM’s Guild and DrivethrurRPG, and 111 pages long, Villains & Lairs is a D&D 5e supplement chock full of villains.

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

D&D Beyond coupons shared on Facebook

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week D&D Beyond have been running adverts on Facebook with coupon codes to a chunky 25% off.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond, Dungeons & Dragons, sales

The Chinese government just burned every copy of this Cthulhu Kickstarter

March 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Sassoon Files is a Cthulhu mythos set of tabletop RPG scenarios and campaign world set in 1920s Shanghai.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, china, cthulhu, Sons of Singularity, time travel, Trail of Cthulhu

Genre Police: A Different Kind Of Fantasy

March 24, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Here’s a few games you might want to try in order to flex your romance muscles…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, good society

A look inside: In Thy Blood

March 24, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Degenesis is a post-apocalyptic game, set after a series of impacts and while a deadly infection sweeps across the surviving clans and cults of man.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, degenesis, sixmorevodka

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