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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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Grab the Doctor Who RPG as a Bundle of Holding

December 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Starter Collection at the Bundle of Holding also has All the Strange, Strange Creatures volume 1 (retail $20) and the Paternonster Investigations (retail $20). In usual Bundle of Holding style that’s $70 worth of Doctor Who for $19.95.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, cubicle 7, doctor who

Modiphius Entertainment take control of Vampire: the Masquerade

December 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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Last month Paradox Interactive announced it had annexed White Wolf. After a string of problems, White Wolf’s parent company took the RPG publisher’s independence away and declared it would be getting out of writing and making tabletop games. Instead, said Paradox, it would manage the World of Darkness brand and look for partners to bring […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Modiphius Entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Vampire: The Masquerade, vampires

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2018

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Old and new titles pepper the best selling sci-fi games of the year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, Cyberpunk 2020, fantasy flight games, genesys, kevin crawford, Modiphius Entertainment, R. Talsorian Games, runehammer games, sci-fi, Shadowrun, sine nomine publishing, star trek, star trek adventures, Stars without Number, Ulisses Spiele, wrath & glory

Exclusive: New The Witcher Tabletop RPG expansion includes GM screen and halflings

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

R Talsorian Games will publish the first expansion to their bestselling The Witcher Tabletop RPG in the first half of 2019.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

They Came from Beneath the Sea! RPG sails into Kickstarter

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

They Came from Beneath the Sea! is a B-movie setting, the 1950s to the max, written by Matthew Dawkins.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, kickstarters, matthew dawkins, monsters, onyx path publishing, sci-fi, They Came from Beneath the Sea!

Deadlands Reloaded: The Fright before Christmas raises money for cancer treatment

December 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The story starts in an orphanage on Christmas Eve in which the PCs are children who have stayed up too late and start to hear someone or something… on the rooftop of the building.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: charity, deadlands, Pinnacle Entertainment, shane hensley

The other best selling fantasy RPGs of 2018

December 18, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no doubt that Dungeons & Dragons had an amazing year. Dungeons & Dragons 5e toped the ICv2 bestseller charts every quarter. The natural rival is Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder, and this game also had an interesting year with the playtest for Pathfinder 2e underway. Here we find two titans of the fantasy RPG genre. But […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, fantasy flight games, genesys, grim & perilous studios, joseph mccullough, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher, warhammer, wayfinder's guide to eberron

Making traps in your D&D feel better and more realistic

December 17, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yes, sadly, you might watch this video and conclude you’ve been doing traps all wrong. You might have been too kind.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Vapourware and murder: the curse of the Alas Vegas Kickstarter

December 16, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

People I knew started dying in ways that were weirdly connected to things I’d written into the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Kenneth Hite, Matt Forbeck, robin d laws

How to play a tabletop RPG by yourself

December 15, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 12 Comments

Can you play Dungeons & Dragons by yourself? Can you play Warhammer, The Witcher and Pathfinder by yourself?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: discord, Fantasy Grounds, Fighting Fantasy, lone wolf, roll20, solo rpgs, trollish delver games

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