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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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The new Rolemaster opens for public playtest

September 29, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Iron Crown Enterprises, ICE, are busy rebuilding a game and its fan base. That’s their description for the new effort around Rolemaster. Rolemaster has split into two; Rolemaster Classic and Rolemaster Fantasy Role Play. The latter was launched a self-contained set of rules but grew and produced expansions. Rolemaster is a classic game, it turned […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Iron Crown Enterprises, Rolemaster

Rifts Black Market hardcover Gold Edition

September 29, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Palladium Books have a limited edition, only 250 printed, signed copies of Rifts Black Market. It’s become known as the Gold Contraband Edition. The book itself contains information about the black market in the post-apocalyptic world of Rifts North America. It is 192-pages long, has cover art by Chuck Walton and is written by Matthew […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books, rifts

A look at the Prismatic Art Collection for gamers

September 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Back in April Geek Native looked at attempts to raise funds for the Prismatic Art Collection. The goal of the collection was two-fold; firstly to produce art of heroes of all colours and secondly to make this art available via the Creative Commons license so authors and gamers could use it to make their own […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Crystal Frasier

Free eBooks and 50% off games at Dream Pod 9

September 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s a good time to go check out Dream Pod 9’s online store as they are offering up to 50% off a range of books from their classic titles. The sale includes; Heavy Gear RPG and Tactical Jovian Chronicles RPG and Lightning Strike Gear Krieg RPG and Tactical Rules Tribe 8 RPG CORE Command d20 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Pod 9, mecha, sale

League of Adventure: Dreaming Spires

September 27, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dreaming Spires is the first adventure module for Triple Ace Games’ League of Adventure series. It is written by Sarah Newton, known for Mindjammer and work on Achtung! Cthulhu, and uses the Ubiquity system. The League of Adventure is an RPG from the UK based publisher which puts players in late Victorian Age setting with […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, mindjammer, Sarah Newton, triple ace games

A look inside the stonepunk RPG: Cavemaster

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Cavemaster was a successful Kickstarter project from Jeff Dee. The game positioned itself as a “stonepunk” RPG – playing on the steampunk evolution from cyberpunk. Players could take on the roles of hunters, gathers, warriors, shaman and other stone age classes, the game would feature historitically accurate creatures alongside magic and other fantasy rules. The […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chronicle City, jeff dee, kickstarters, previews

If this funding project fails – we’ll keep your money

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

I’m most familiar with Kickstarter even though it’s yet to launch in the UK (the autumn, I’m told – seems like they’re running tight on time) but the premise is very clear; if the project fails then supporters don’t spend their money. Isn’t IndieGoGo the same? No? Step forward the controversial James Desborough and the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Indiegogo, James Desborough, kickstarters, Satine Phoenix, sci-fi

Devin Night’s awesome Tabletop Forge tokens

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I backed the Tabletop Forge Kickstarter at a level where the pledge reward included a custom token. Tabletop Forge is an impressive Google+ Hangouts app for roleplayers. It allows gamers to have the tabletop gaming experience without actually all being at the same tabletop. Google+ Hangouts provide the impressive video functions and the Tabletop Forge […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: tabletop forge

Free Loot! Uncharted Isles free for Talk Like a Pirate Day

September 19, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop Adventures are giving a way a freebie for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Uncharted Isles costs $0.00. My favourite price. The free download contains 36 short descriptions of lots of pirate-y things; tropical island sights, strange ports and the like. They’re designed to be read out – thus helping you Talk Like a Pirate […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, pirates

Settlers of Catan Pizza

September 18, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This is kinda cool. That said and speaking as a huge pizza fan (a fan of huge pizza) I’m not sure how tasty this Settlers of Catan pizza actually looks. I think I see olives on it. Olives? What next? Adding mushroom? Urg. P.S. It’s probably a good thing board games aren’t made from pizza. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board game, food, Settlers of Catan

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