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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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Free to Download: Occult intrigue in the weird cyberpunk of Chromatic Shadows

January 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matrix Ghost Games’s Chromatic Shadows Basic Rules have been out for over a year – and they’re free in PDF.

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

Serenissima Obscura cover reveal and the horror of Venice

January 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Vortex Verlag has revealed the cover of the forthcoming fantasy horror Serenissima Obscura.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, horror, Melina Sedo, serenissima obscura, Vortex Verlag

Critical Role’s Darrington Press cut Macmillian deal for TTRPG sales and distribution deal

January 8, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Macmillian Publishers, part of the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, have partnered with Critical Role and Darrington Press.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: critical role, daggerheart, darrington press

The top selling titles on DriveThruCards in 2024

January 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I dread imagining how many great card games or decks were not made because the designer left it as a failed Kickstarter rather than coming to this site to try their hand anyway.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, Philip J Reed, stats, tarot

Runecaster TTRPG: Draw runes and blow yourself up!

January 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game designers and writers known as Pangur Ban Collective has launched their first Kickstarter. The campaign is for a TTRPG called Runecaster.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Leopards Eat Your Face: A TTRPG about authoritarianism and opposition

January 6, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Bläckfisk Förlag begin their blurb for “Leopards Eat Your Face RPG” by resharing a meme and quoting Adrian Bott.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: blackfisk forlag, blood feud, memes, pay what you want

Free to Download: Ultimate Reverie Jumpstart for Savage Worlds

January 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ultimate Reverie Jumpstart is free to download and introduces some bold new rules to Savage Worlds, an adventure called Out of the Frying Pan, 8 pregens and 17 new monsters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: re:zero, savage worlds

Starfinder 2e cover reveal is the laser-eyed Akashic dragon

January 4, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For the battle’s setting we selected a futuristic museum full of artifacts from the era of Paizo’s other game, Pathfinder.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, starfinder

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #290

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to the first TTRPG news and routinely itemised summary of 2025. Let’s look at what’s happened so far.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice bag, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, shadowdark, vikings

The top selling products on WarGameVault in 2024

January 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Roll20 team has kindly provided us with a top ten list titled “WarGameVault Top Sellers of 2024”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fat dragon games, Modiphius Entertainment, stats, wargames

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