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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 the Nights of the Crusades playtest

November 13, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nights of the Crusades is a fully fledged RPG and you can download the beta version right now if you’re kind enough to get involved in some playtesting or crowd sourced wisdom. Feedback can go to a number of places; Nights of the Crusades’ forums, their Facebook page and I’ll let the team know about […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, playtest

Paizo will host PaizoCon2012 to celebrate 10 years

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Next year, Paizo will have been going for 10 years and their Pathfinder RPG will celebrate its 5th anniversary. PaizoCon, held at the Marriot Redmond Town Center in Redmond, will run from July 6th to July 8th in 2012. PaizoCon 2012 will have three days of workshops, games, panels and special guests. Registration is open […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder

Pathfinder tops summer RPG sales

November 2, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

ICv2’s quarterly chart of the best selling RPGs is out and, as expected, Pathfinder tops the chart. There’s a different publisher on each of the top five positions with old favourites and newer entries like Green Ronin’s Dragon Age making the cut. IVc2 reports that games had a great summer – with CCGs and especially […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, dark heresy, deathwatch, dragon age, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy flight games, games workshop, green ronin, magic the gathering, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, rogue trader, Shadowrun, wizards of the coast

Futurama alignment chart: D&D style

November 2, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Remember the old D&D alignment chart? Of course you do. In fact, this blogger is willing to bet some gamers who have never played old school Dungeons and Dragons with the old school alignment rules are still very familiar with the concept. Remember Futurama? Ha. I’m glad it made it back for a second attack […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Futurama, humour

The pitch for the Quantum Roleplaying Game

November 1, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Joshua Frost has clout in the roleplaying games world. He’s designed and for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 ed and 4th ed, A Song of Fire and Ice and Pathfinder. He’s picked up ENnies and two Origin Awards. Now Mr Frost wants your money. He’s developed the Infinate Roleplaying Engine and is looking to raise $13,000 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ENnies, Infinite X Studio, Joshua Frost, kickstarters, pathfinder, Quantum

Jimmy Swill’s Wayfarers interview

November 1, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ye Olde Gaming Companye has a RPG on the way. Wayfarers is a sword and sorcery style RPG and is being published in conjunction with Mongoose. The game is not yet out but you can sign up for a pre-order today. Jimmy Swill is a co-founder of YOGC and has kindly agreed to do Q&A […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Mongoose Publishing

Three Trail of Cthulhu wallpapers to inspire you this Halloween

October 31, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pelgrane Press’s The Apocalypse Machine is about the end of the world. It happened on November 2nd, 1936 and humanity perished in as millions of men and women died. The Apocalypse Machine has two different methods of play; Wasteland and Aftershock. In Aftershock mode players are in the thick of it, the earthquake has just […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, Pelgrane Press, Trail of Cthulhu, wallpapers

Magic the Gathering with Googly Eyes

October 30, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Perhaps you find yourself with a small truckload of Magic the Gathering cards you know you’ll never use again and don’t imagine are worth selling. It might also be the case that you can’t bring yourself to throw these loyal Magic: tG cards out and into the trash too. So, what can you do about […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, magic the gathering

Fat Dragon and Troll Lord go to price war

October 25, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A few hours ago Fat Dragon Games emailed customers to declare a flash sale. All Castle Winterhawk products would have %30 off. This is a set that allows you to build large castle or keeps out of paper. At least; I assume that’s how it works – it’s an RPGNow download. Perhaps the future we’ll […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fat dragon games, sale, Troll Lord Games

Dungeons and Dragons 4th ed cheat codes

October 25, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Many computer games have cheat codes that the knowing can use to great advantage. Cheat codes may grant extra lives, automatically level you up or even make you impossible to kill. Never seen the attraction in them myself unless it was to power back to a place in the game you’d gotten to before some […]

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

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