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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.

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Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent wants to shake up your 5e sensibilities Free to Download: New Call of Cthulhu character sheets for the RPG’s 40th birthday An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115 An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures

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Historica Arcanum: The City of Crescent wants to shake up your 5e sensibilities

August 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a free download for this fantasy real-world inspired culture setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Historica Arcanum, metis media

Free to Download: New Call of Cthulhu character sheets for the RPG’s 40th birthday

August 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher has released a set of new character sheets, available in aged colour and black and white, which have auto-calculate functionality.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, free to download

An interview with James Introcaso as MCDM’s Arcadia future is confirmed

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When Matt Colville announced that MCDM would start a magazine, he was very clear about the commercial requirements. Arcadia would need to be a success, and the first few issues would be a test.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, cat evans, James Introcaso, Matt Colville, mcdm, Mike Shea, sharang biswas, zweihander

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #115

August 27, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in a week of new game announcements, franchise deals and licenses. We’ve attracted lots of Cthulhu, too.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a couple of drakes, Alligator Alley Entertainment, Catalyst Game Labs, Chaosium, columbia games, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, earl of fife games, Esper Genesis, Girl Genius, goblin slayer, hard wired island, index card rpg, lupin the 3rd, magnetic press, magnetic press play, micro rpg, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Outland Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, queerz, Renegade Game Studios, rookie jet studio, routinely itemised, runehammer games, samjoko publishing, sandy pug games, savage worlds, severed books, Shadowrun, Son of Oak Game Studio, sr 16, Steve Jackson Games, the witcher, troika, viking death squad, wizards of the coast, yen press

An argument for more sophisticated Tier 1 adventures

August 27, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

I will go over some reasons for why many of the Tier 1 adventures are designed as simple fetch or kill missions and over some exceptional books you can use to fuel your need for more sophisticated Tier 1 Dungeons & Dragons adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, rpg tips

Hasbro approve the release of the Essence 20 RPG system

August 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Wizards of the Coast have a new RPG system in the ecosystem to be mindful of, and it’s connected to their parent company Hasbro.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Elisa Teague, g.i. joe, hasbro, power rangers, Renegade Game Studios, Transformers

Free to Download: Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart Conversion Guide

August 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

That’s eleven new NPCs, all with Roles, ready for you to plug into your campaign. You can use them as is, reskin them, or use them as inspiration for your own statblocks!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, free to download, R. Talsorian Games

Nightfall Games returns to Kickstarter for more SLA Industries RPG

August 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

SLA Industries is the megacorp of the conspiracy future, a dark and rainy world in which the public is distracted from their mundane horror by reality horror on TV.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, Nightfall Games, SLA Industries

Roleplay as a lonely sock: A review of Searching for my Solemate

August 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You play as a sock that has lost its mate after falling through an interdimensional portal known as The Machine.

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

D&D: Helpful diagram shows how many targets are hit by a 30ft by 5ft line

August 26, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Dungeons & Dragons 5e, several spells have a range/area described as 30 ft long and 5 feet wide. For example, spells like Aganazzar’s Scorcher the 2nd level Evocation available to Wizards and Sorcerers.

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

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