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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.

Light touch; big flavour: A review of Soulbound: Champions of Order

December 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The core of the 140+ page book is the new Archetypes it offers through the vessel of sub-factions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, reviews, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, warhammer

Free to Download: Entreat the Darkness – A safety toolkit for Zweihander audiobook and PDF

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Entreat The Darkness – TTRPG Safety Tool For Zweihander RPG is a free tool designed to help you handle adult or sensitive topics.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, rpg tips, zweihander

Genre Police: Parallel Play

December 26, 2021 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Sometimes, roleplaying games can become very focused on the heroes.

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

Free to Download: Indie Japanese TTRPG Emo-klore

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Emo-klore is free to access and download tabletop roleplaying game. It’s been made by various members of the Japanese roleplaying games YouTube community and as a showcase.

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

Tabletop games 2022 pre-orders already selling out in the UK

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wayland Games is, they say, Europe’s largest independent retailer for tabletop hobbies.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: assassin's creed, Dungeons & Dragons, HeroQuest, lord of the rings, magic the gathering, petersen games, pokemon, Privateer Press, shopping, the witcher, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Wayland Games, z-man games

Free to Download: Dragonlance’s Champions of Kyrnn 5e adventure

December 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The War of the Lance is over, but Evil is a BAD loser…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, free to download

Free to Download: Kult scenario Et In Arcadia Ego

December 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kult is a horror RPG rich with the occult and gnostic references and very adult.

Filed Under: Online Shows, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: actual play, free to download, Helmgast, horror, kult, kult: divinty lost

Spirit Ancient Tales is an RPG of possessed adventurers

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ancient spirits in the game have had enough of waiting and watching. They possess people to achieve their goals, but it’s never said what those goals might be.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, beadle & grimm's, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, Green Ronin Publishing, kobold press, Legend of the Five Rings, lone wolf, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, snowbright studios, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, weird frontiers, Wyrmworks Publishing, Zozer Games

Magic: The Gathering marketings taps hoax conspiracy meme

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is the world flat? Are there nanobots in medicine? Could vapour trails be alien smoke signals and what if birds aren’t real?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magic: the gathering, marketing, wizards of the coast

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