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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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Twitch backed Into the Mother Lands actual play takes their RPG to Kickstarter Paizo’s Humble Bundle includes the 2e core rules for a couple of quid Amazon drops price on D&D’s Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft The official Naruto Shippuden Monopoly is out today Using the undead as slaves: Necrobiotic’s dark charm lures in the RPG crowd

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Twitch backed Into the Mother Lands actual play takes their RPG to Kickstarter

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Twitch’s Into the Mother Lands is a rightfully popular actual play. Now, the POC-created and Cortex-powered RPG is on Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cortex, cortex prime, Into the Mother Lands, kickstarters, tanya depass

Paizo’s Humble Bundle includes the 2e core rules for a couple of quid

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Paizo has today launched a compelling offer on Humble. The core 2e Pathfinder rules and many other downloads are in the very cheapest tier, and the physical edition of the Bestiary is in the highest.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundles, humble bundle, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, sales

Amazon drops price on D&D’s Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft was published this week, the latest official D&D book. As the round-up of reviews in Routinely Itemised: RPGs #100 shows it is going down very well with reviewers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazon, Dungeons & Dragons, Ravenloft, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, wizards of the coast

The official Naruto Shippuden Monopoly is out today

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Monopoly game has six collectible items; a shuriken, a Kakashi Anbu Mask, Gaara’s Sand Gourd and the Akasuki’s Cloud.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, monopoly, naruto, Naruto Shippuden, the op

Using the undead as slaves: Necrobiotic’s dark charm lures in the RPG crowd

May 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Necrobiotic, the decay started (wait for it) around 2020. Within thirty years, the world had changed, shrinking back until everything we once took for granted had gone.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

VoxStory is a traditional RPG designed for the television screen

May 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

VoxStory is a traditional TTRPG made cinematic. Played in a similar way to traditional TTRPGs, VoxStory modernises by allowing players to see their actions play out on a big screen.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: virtual tabletop, voxstory

Free to Download: Heavy Gear Blitz! 3e small format rules

May 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These core rules include an introduction to the Heavy Gear universe, objective generation for your games, weapon rules, reference sheets and game tokens.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dream Pod 9, free to download, mecha, wargaming

Kobold Press deals Deep Magic Spell Cards for D&D

May 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Each individual spell deck includes up to 385 spell cards—even the paladins get 66 new spells! You get the stats and the spell text, ready to play or to hand out as new information in scroll form.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, Dungeons & Dragons, kobold press

Crash into BattleTech: A Time of War as the RPG lists on Bundle of Holding

May 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The last time Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech: A Time of War was available as a deal on the Bundle of Holding was 2013. It’s back today and will be available until June 7th.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, bundle of holding, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs, sales

Free to Download: Battle maps from the award-winning Paths to Adventure

May 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Justin Andrew Mason is an ENnie award-winning and best-selling RPG author and RPG cartographer.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, free to download

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