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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.

The loss of innocence: A review of Wine, Meat, Milk, Cake

January 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wine, Meat, Milk, Cake is an RPG by fiercefully / Chloe Sobel in which you play a wolf and several innocents.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, storybrewers

Dogs doin’ dog stuff: Heckin’ Good Doggos! RPG

January 29, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The word “doggos” seems to divide people, some of whom really dislike it, but the choice hasn’t stopped Wet Ink Games’ Heckin’ Good Doggos!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, wet ink games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #137

January 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think the deadly Dark Souls computer game would work as a 5e RPG on the tabletop? Steamforged will try, and they’re going to do the same with RuneQuest. Paizo make a critical hire, Monte Cook Games make a free preview available and more this week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Babies and Broadswords, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, Darklight Interactive, doctor who, dog might games, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, edge, fasa, Free League Publishing, gale force 9, goodman games, lancer, legends of avallen, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Paizo Publishing, parts per million, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, rick and morty, root, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, runescape, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, sideshow collectibles, star trek into darkness, Steamforged Games, the oracle, warehouse 23

Long Lost Noir: Gumshoes and weird fiction in 5e

January 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The material in Long Lost Noir is inspired by noir films, hardboiled detective stories, pulp magazines, and weird fiction, though it’s not explicitly or exclusively intended for those settings: a gnome gumshoe or a dwarf professor would fit well in any high fantasy campaign.

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

Free to Download: Monte Cook Games’ Break the Horizon preview

January 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook Games has a Cypher System expansion to the Ninth World coming with Break the Horizon. It’s a supplement all about the few people in the far future who travel more than a few miles from their homes. The free preview is 13-pages long and contains new mounts, common vehicles and far less common […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bruce Cordell, cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Numenera

Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game 2e Starter Set goes on pre-order

January 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can now get a look inside the £22.99 Starter boxed set of the Doctor Who 2e RPG care of Forbidden Planet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, doctor who

Dark Souls tabletop RPG will use D&D’s 5e and promises tactical combat

January 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The fully illustrated Dark Souls TTRPG core rules will include new character classes, an entirely new magic system, lore on the dangerous world of Lothric and, of course, lots of monsters

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dark Souls, Dungeons & Dragons, richard august, Steamforged Games

Dexterity and accessibility: The comedy RPG One More Quest has you fling dice

January 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Horrible Guild has an excellent track record, and Dungeon Fighter is already an established and popular board game. It’s all looking good for One More Quest, the tabletop RPG based on Dungeon Fighter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, kickstarters

Thay: Land of the Red Wizards by Ed Greenwood, Alex Kammer and Alan Patrick on the way

January 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Red Wizards are a favoured enemy in Faerun, and the cabal is made up of magical slavers and demonologists who think nothing about any suffering created by their magical experiments.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, forgotten realms

Go system-neutral with Goodman Games and the Bundle of Holding Gems

January 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The deal has been featured before, and this one will run until Friday the 18th of February. There’s a dedicated landing page until then.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, goodman games

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