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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.

Stay ahead of the curve with our popular Routinely Itemised summary. This regular feature is your essential digest of the TTRPG industry, curating the biggest news, trends, and hidden gems into one unmissable roundup. It's the best way to stay informed on the business of tabletop gaming.

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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 205).

Marrowbreak is an RPG of dungeon heists and fractal depths

April 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Don’t Hurt Birds is a publisher based in Scotland’s Glasgow, neighbour to Geek Native’s HQ of Edinburgh, and the publisher of Marrowbreak.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Geek Native Patron gift: Neurocity indie RPG

April 22, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thank you to Gavriel Quiroga for enabling the offer! There’s an added incentive, of course, as there’s a Kickstarter for a new edition live right now.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gavriel quiroga, geek native, Patreon

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #201

April 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly summary of RPG news. This week we lookat Kickstarter activity, what D&D is up to on screens, new deals, releases, interviews and headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragonbane, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, gloomhaven, Into the Mother Lands, paramount+, routinely itemised, Ulisses Spiele

Keith Frye Memorial bundle published by Independence Games and others: $150 for $30

April 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Keith was a vital part of the Traveller RPG community and was responsible for TravellerCon.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Cepheus Engine, charity, Independence Games, Mongoose Publishing, traveller

A whimsical bestiary (5e): FOLKLORE – The Wild Hunt

April 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Following the successful crowdfunding of Folklore – Tales of These Isles, a book of illustrated folk tales by Hannah Mosley, and one particular copy reaching Tom Kremer, we now have FOLKLORE – The Wild Hunt on Kickstarter.

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

The Lair of the Leopard Empresses marks the return of Mindjammer Press

April 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Lair of the Leopard Empresses dates back before 2019, as Sarah has been working on the project since 2015, and there’s not long to wait now as the RPG is expected out next month.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: mindjammer press, Sarah Newton, the lair of the leopard empresses

Award-winning TTRPG 13th Age gets a mega bundle Humble deal

April 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet have worked on some of the world’s most iconic tabletop RPGs, and for Pelgrane Press, they did 13th Age.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, bundles, humble bundle, jonathan tweet, Pelgrane Press, Rob Heinsoo

Monster Gaming impresses Kickstarter with a deluxe RPG stat tracker case and accessory

April 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monster has been going for ten years, and this is not their first Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: character sheets, dice trays, kickstarters

Flash sale: Retro-pulp TTRPG with Airship Daedalus

April 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Airship Daedalus puts you in the role of a field operative, academic, or strike team leader for the American Enterprise Group for International Security in a 1920s alternate history that mostly avoids the social foibles of our own (AEGIS).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, flash sale

Sigil Services snapped up by Ulisses Spiele for VTT skills in a deal with Pinnacle Entertainment involved

April 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Interesting news from a growing aspect of tabletop gaming this evening as Ulisses Spiele announces its acquisition of Sigil Services.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aaron Acevedo, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, shane hensley, sigil entertainment group, Ulisses Spiele, virtual tabletop

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