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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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Join a Kickstarter success and an RPG that helps kids on the autism spectrum

March 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is built around the DIR/Floortime model, and the game encounters map to the Function Emotional Development Capacities framework.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Swordsfall: Afropunk, African-cyberpunk, RPG setting kickstarts in just an hour

March 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Afropunk setting is full of tension. There are rumours of a new tyle fo weapon, Grim Arms, which can kill gods.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: afropunk, Cyberpunk, kickstarters, swordsfall

The Ring of Torment: Beware the Smiling GM

March 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Taking this ring off isn’t easy. It’s resistant to attempts to dispel its curse.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour

Genre Police: Drugs & Dystopias

March 16, 2019 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

Teen tales evolved from The Outsiders, through X-Men and Sweet Valley High to The Hunger Games becoming very different to its origins through several decades. In that time, its become one of the most beloved and (simultaneously) hated genres of the last decade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, masks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Witch+Craft brings the joy of crafting to D&D

March 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Astrolago Press’ Witch+Craft is designed to make it a little bit more dramatic and involved if PCs need to build something important; like repair a shipwreck or whisk up an impromptu grappling hook.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters, witch+craft

Fantasy you’ve not experienced before: A review of The Silence of Hollowind

March 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Silence of Hollowind may well be a fantasy world, unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy

WizKids partners with Renegade Game Studios to create a 5e Wardlings RPG

March 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game, with the heroes as kids, will be accessible to the growing legions of Dungeons & Dragons players and playing families.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elisa Teague, Renegade Game Studios, wardlings, wizkids

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Munchkin is out this year

March 13, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

By the end of 2020 you could have nearly 400 Munchkin Warhammer cards as Steve Jackson Games suggests Warhammer 40K and Sigmar cards can mix for an epic battle.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: games workshop, John Kovalic, Munchkin, Steve Jackson Games, warhammer age of sigmar

Game designer announces official Jim Henson Labyrinth RPG adventure

March 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Goblins of the Labyrinth

Art from Brian Froud’s The Goblins of Labyrinth will pack the book and Milton even claims the book itself will have a hole where you can store a dice and a flip book mechanic of an owl flying around the page numbers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ben milton, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, river horse

Bite Me! The werewolf RPG with emotional teeth

March 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a game about the complex relationships that create a Pack. Wolves are usually social animals and Bite Me! looks to layer on the drama that being werewolves, part human, part wolf, will likely bring to that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Becky Annison, horror, Meguey Baker, werewolves

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