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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 Scotland now officially shapes a piece of D&D’s Forgotten Realms

August 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Find out how the Scottish convention Tabletop Scotland became a D&D Adventurers League Premier Organiser, giving it exclusive control of the Forgotten Realms region of Murghôm.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventurers league, conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, tabletop scotland

Enter a world of neon grime with the free Quickstart for Dirt City Blues

August 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Step back into a world of VHS static, cheap cologne, and flickering motel signs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, the world anvil publishing

Free League releases irrevocable open license for Coriolis: The Great Dark

August 28, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Following a trend in the TTRPG space, Free League has launched an irrevocable open license for Coriolis: The Great Dark, but it comes with some specific rules for creators.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Coriolis, Free League Publishing

Son of Oak launches community content program for Legend in the Mist

August 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Son of Oak Game Studio has launched the Cauldron of Mist, a new community content program on DriveThruRPG for the Legend in the Mist TTRPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: :otherscape, drivethrurpg, legend in the mist, Son of Oak Game Studio

Cörk Børd: A Nordic noir Mörk Borg spin-off hits Kickstarter

August 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From the dice trays of All Rolled Up comes Cörk Børd, a new tabletop roleplaying game of Nordic Noir investigative horror, and it’s funding now on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, kickstarters, mork borg, Paul Baldowski, the cthulhu hack, the dee sanction

Concern grows for missing Grimwild designer, physical game on hold

August 27, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ENNIE award-winning TTRPG Grimwild is on indefinite hold after its designer, J.D. Maxwell, has been uncontactable for two months, leaving backers and colleagues concerned.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowdfunding

Go big with the Tiny Dungeon MEGA and TinyZine RPG bundles

August 25, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The TinyZine Bundle collects the entire four-year run of the official magazine, offering existing players over 800 pages of new adventures, heritages, and optional rules to expand their campaigns.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, gallant knight games, tiny cthulhu, tiny dungeon, tinyd6

The RPG behind Record of Lodoss War is finally available in English

August 25, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sword World RPG, created by the influential Group SNE, has been a cornerstone of Japanese geek culture since its first publication in 1989.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: twilight sword

Routinely Itemised: RPG #323

August 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This week’s tabletop news: drama at Tabletop Scotland, a tribute to Bud Baird, the latest on Diamond Comics, and worsening US shipping problems.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Coriolis, Free League Publishing, routinely itemised, Shades of Vengeance, zatu

First 500 attendees at the UK’s biggest D&D convention get a free dragonfolk wizard mini

August 22, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop Scotland, held in Edinburgh following its move to the capital in 2024, has partnered with UK-based Warbases and their Bifrost Miniatures line to offer an exclusive “Dragonfolk Wizard” model.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adventurers league, conventions, Dungeons & Dragons, forgotten realms, tabletop scotland

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