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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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Lightweight dystopia: A review of Space Street RPG Free to Download: Tension RPG Dice of the Dead: Gamer dice that contain tiny little skulls! The walls are closing in! – or How to wrangle players and puzzles when the time is running out Free to Download: Sölitary Defilement solo RPG rules for MORK BORG

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Lightweight dystopia: A review of Space Street RPG

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In Space Street vast cities house humanity, beset by spying aliens, cosmic horrors, broken androids and insane criminals lurking in every dark starlit alley and dirty street.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: itch.io, sci-fi, sr 16

Free to Download: Tension RPG

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tension is an one page RPG from Late Night Zen. The RPG blog introduces the ghost hunting one-page system by explaining how several years of thought found a home in this one game. Tension is a game of hunting ghosts. Once you start, you’re committed because ghosts can hunt you too. The pressure keeps rising […]

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

Dice of the Dead: Gamer dice that contain tiny little skulls!

April 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These “dice of the dead” pair perfectly with Call of Cthulhu or Vampire: The Masquerade.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, skulls, storm crow

The walls are closing in! – or How to wrangle players and puzzles when the time is running out

April 25, 2021 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

Sometimes players are gonna overthink things for a multitude of reasons and get stumped by a puzzle in the heat of the moment.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips

Free to Download: Sölitary Defilement solo RPG rules for MORK BORG

April 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Solitary Defilement from 1d10+5 is a solution. The free download contains comprehensive rules for exploring the dying lands and end of the world by yourself.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, itch.io, mork borg

Something is rotten in Darwich: Dawn of the Necromancer

April 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Dawn of the Necromancer is a 5e campaign from the OSR GM and occasional movie fight choreographer John Harmston.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #97

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A weekly RPG news summary covering D&D, 2d20, indie news, events, reviews, interviews and even encounter tables.

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Call of Cthulhu expands with Corsairs of Cthulhu

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Corsairs of Cthulhu is a rules and setting supplement to the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game and focuses on the period between 1650 and 1730 CE.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, cthulhu, kickstarters

Which environment type do you think is underused in D&D?

April 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The responses were even, and votes spread equally among the suggested categories, with one exception.

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

Cubicle 7 renews Lone Wolf RPG and confirms new books

April 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the Lone Wolf Adventure Game, players are Kai Lords, noble warrior-monks sworn to protect Sommerlund from the Darklords.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, Joe Dever, lone wolf

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