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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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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 83).

UK Games Expo preview: Life after death/Apotheosis Studios as Storyteller’s Forge takes The Black Ballad to Birmingham

May 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Indie RPG design studio Storytellers Forge is coming to the UK Games Expo and bringing 5e settings Festival of the Forgotten: Revelations of the Dark Carnival and The Black Ballad.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis studios, the red opera, uk games expo

Cyberpunk TTRPG: Hacking Simulator

May 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Need to quickly decide the results of a hacking checking in a TTRPG? Make a dice roll look hackertype.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: entromancy, generators, hacking, nightpath publishing

“War Among the Stars”: Galactic & Going Rogue finally get printed and a third edition

May 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jumpgate Games, the printing vehicle for Jess Levine, has smashed the Kickstarter target for two popular TTRPGs combined into one project and book.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, star wars

Star Trek: Captain’s Log the SOLO TTRPG comes to Fantasy Grounds

May 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fantasy Grounds is a Unity-based virtual tabletop. As a result, this is a Star Trek RPG you can play by yourself from your desktop.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Fantasy Grounds, Modiphius Entertainment, solo rpgs, star trek, star trek adventures

Gehenna Gaming to demo new tabletop RPGs, Trashumanism and Eldritch Automata, at UK Games Expo 2025

May 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Attendees can participate in hands-on demonstrations of both games at the Gehenna Gaming booth. Chris Handley, a writer involved with Trashumanism and Eldritch Automata, is expected to be at the booth to speak with attendees.

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: uk games expo

Old-School Essentials from Necrotic Gnome gets a rare all-new double-bundle

May 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These core rules are compatible with Basic D&D, full of new character options and magic, all in theme with D&D from the 1970s.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Necrotic Gnome, old school essentials

From Cthulhu Dark to Cosmic Dark: Weird space horror TTRPG

May 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Graham Walmsley, who wrote seven ways to make space scary for Geek Native, has launched Cosmic Dark on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Graham Walmsley, kickstarters

Forks 2nd Edition to make convention debut at UK Games Expo

May 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Forks 2nd Edition accommodates up to six players with an estimated playtime of 15 minutes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, uk games expo

Tabletop Table pitches a ‘table for your tabletop’ (100 backers and counting)

May 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I know the situation the Tabletop Table is trying to solve. I’ve once lived in a flat where my only table was a small coffee table in front of the TV. It was too low for easy gameplay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gaming table, household, kickstarters

Check out this exclusive reading from ‘Return of the Living Dead’

May 18, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

It’s almost time for the Kickstarter launch of Return of the Living Dead, the official TTRPG from Evil Genius Games, and we’ve got an exclusive reading for you by me – BWP.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: night of the living dead

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