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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.

Six bundle deals headline “New Year, New Game” at DriveThruRPG

January 4, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of the year, it’s a DriveThruRPG tradition to offer a good sale, and it’s happening again this year. There’s 50% off a range of titles to persuade you to try a new RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300 ad, Achtung! Cthulhu, Arc Dream Publishing, Delta Green, dms guild, drivethrurpg, elemental, fat dragon games, gildor games, index card rpg, kobold press, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Necrotic Gnome, old-school essentials, onyx path publishing, Pelgrane Press, runehammer games, sales, scion, southlands, the yellow king, unity

Magic: The Gathering inventor Richard Garfield’s Roll & Write game “Dungeons, Dice and Danger” goes on pre-order

January 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you brave enough? Do you dare to step into the deepest depths of the Dungeons? Yes? Then pack the cubes and your happiness and get on an adventure of an extraordinary way.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ravensburger, Richard Garfield

Sigil Stone’s new OSR Bundle carries two different RPGs

January 3, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The deal, launched within the last few hours, concludes on Monday, 24th January, and there’s no bonus collection to unlock. It’s all or nothing with a complete package.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, sigil stone publishing

Survey results: The tabletop RPGs gamers are most looking forward to in 2022

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For years now, EN World has coordinated a survey of its large membership on which tabletop RPGs are the most anticipated for the coming year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar, avatar legends, basic roleplaying, blade runner, blade runner rpg, broken tales, Chaosium, en world, Free League Publishing, gumshoe, magpie games, monad echo, mothership, Paradox Interactive, Pelgrane Press, pendragon, powered by the apocalypse, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shadow of the weird wizard, the world anvil publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, werewolf, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, year zero engine

Genre Police: Life Map

January 2, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

This is an example of a living world. Which is the model presented above. A game world that is affected by several play groups and the knock-on effect of actions in one game, change those in others.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, rpg tips

Grenade stuff: A review of Nova RPG

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The fast-paced action of first-person shooters like the computer game Destiny is precisely what Nova (and LUMEN) try to recreate. They succeed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gila, lumen, Nova, reviews, spencer campbell

Free to Download: Sean K Reynolds’ Five Moons RPG

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sean K Reynolds is an RPG designer with significant Wizards of the Coasts credits to his name. Today he made the Five Moons RPG core rules, monster and player guides free.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Sean K. Reynolds

Those Dark Places skirmish game, Those Darker Places, confirmed by Jonathan Hicks

January 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Jonathan Hicks has finished a 15mm model game called Those Darker Places.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jonathan hicks, osprey games, skirmish game, those dark places

Murky Grey Matter launches Colonized campaign for a dark sci-fi RPG

January 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This game was created to provoke creativity, adaptation, and improvisation while exploring the darker parts of the psyche.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133

December 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, brindlewood bay, cluedo, demiplane, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, en publishing, everway, gallant knight games, gallantfunding, jasper's game day, kult: divinty lost, level up, lumpley games, Meguey Baker, Paizo Publishing, root, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The One Ring, the witcher

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