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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.

RPG review: Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action

December 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action” is a one-page solo RPG. Fortunately, it’s not an ash-can.

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

The best selling modern RPGs of 2021

December 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Today, with modern, we’re back into murky genre territory. We have a whole Genre Police series that goes into genres for RPGs and GM tips for them, by the way.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arc Dream Publishing, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, CRISPR Monkey Studios, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, gallant knight games, greater than games, m20 technocracy reloaded, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, Sentinel comics, Shadowrun, shadowrun: collapsing now, tiny cthulhu, trinity continuum

Beadle & Grimm’s Critical Role is an even more exquisite Critical Role

December 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Beadle & Grimm’s specialises in making RPGs look even better, making them expensive but highly desirable and exquisite collectables.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beadle & grimm's, critical role, darrington press

Rolling evolution: Chamomile Has Adventures funds Cora’s Guide to Dinosaurs

December 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chamomile has been doing one Kickstarter a month and doing it well. The 5e products are on-schedule and then selling well in retail after launch.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: chamomile has adventures, dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons, kickstarters

Boldly roll the tabletop dice: Star Trek Adventures RPG blasts off a Humble bundle deal

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 20 days to explore the galaxy of deals on Humble and find the latest offering from Modiphius in the form of the Star Trek Adventures RPG collection.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, humble bundle, Modiphius Entertainment, star trek, star trek adventures

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #131

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A look at which games published this year have sold the best and other RPG news!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of sigmar, Asmodee, Autarch, carbon 2185, Catalyst Game Labs, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, darrington press, demiplane, dragon turtle games, everway, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, foundry vtt, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Green Ronin Publishing, Independence Games, invisible sun, lightspress media, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, mcdm, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, rebellion unplugged, roll20, root, routinely itemised, salvage union, sine nomine publishing, starfinder, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, the between, the expanse rpg, the merciless merchants, TSR, warehouse 23, warhammer, wizards of the coast, World Anvil, wrath & glory

The best selling horror RPGs of 2021

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Horror is more straightforward of an RPG genre to assign to games; if the designer says, “this is supposed to be horror, ” it’s horror with less debate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arc Dream Publishing, Chaosium, Cults of the Blood Gods, Delta Green, drivethrurpg, flames of freedom, gallant knight games, greg gillespie, joseph mccullough, mothership, Necrotic Gnome, onyx path publishing, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, Stygian Fox Publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, through the breach, tiny cthulhu, Tuesday Knight Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, wyrd miniatures

What are the highest-rated Strixhaven D&D supplements?

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are community content Strixhaven downloads any good? Short answer; yes, it seems so!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, strixhaven

R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk TTRPG classics back on Humble Bundle

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s over £375 worth of tabletop RPG content here, with the low tier starting at the traditional £0.76 and the top collection asking £13.27 or more.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, cyberpunk red, humble bundle, R. Talsorian Games, sales

Wizards of the Coast urge people to actually read the latest D&D errata as they update it again

December 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I urge all of you to read the errata documents for yourselves. A lot of assertions about the errata we’ve noticed in various online discussions aren’t accurate.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Ray Winniger, wizards of the coast

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