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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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Studio Agate confirm an English version of Vermin 2047 Free to Download: Sci-fi RPG – FinalHorizon My First Little Sacrifice for Solemn Vale Kingdoms of Hârn: Kaldor leans into its gritty realism The Witcher TTRPG confirms A Tome of Chaos

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Studio Agate confirm an English version of Vermin 2047

April 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is written in the first person, with survivors explaining the world, and so players reading the book never have complete certainty that what they’ve just read is absolutely and entirely true.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, studio agate

Free to Download: Sci-fi RPG – FinalHorizon

April 11, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’re old enough to remember computer games with dark screens and blocky green text, then you will be familiar with the game’s layout.

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

My First Little Sacrifice for Solemn Vale

April 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Invoking Playmobil, Dirty Vortex shared on Instagram this fantastically creepy illustration for Solemn Vale.

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Kingdoms of Hârn: Kaldor leans into its gritty realism

April 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hârn is a mediaeval fantasy. It’s a world with non-humans and magic but set firmly at 12th century Norman England technology levels.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: columbia games, kickstarters

The Witcher TTRPG confirms A Tome of Chaos

April 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A Tome of Chaos is about magic in the world of The Witcher. Pondsmith says the new supplement will include lore and insight on the force of primal chaos, more commonly called magic.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cody pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, the witcher

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In the latest routinely itemised RPG news round-up, we have the release of the Dune 2d20 RPG, Goodman Games buying Dark Tower and an impressive video platform for your tabletop gaming group.

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We Die Young is a supernatural counter-culture RPG

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Eric Bloat describes We Die Young as the spiritual successor to Dark Places & Demogorgons, another title from Bloat Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bloat games, dark places & demogorgons, eric bloat, kickstarters, survive this!!

What’s the opposite of dump stat?

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Whereas dump stat is a reasonably ubiquitous term, I noticed different phrases being used to describe the highest attribute characters had over the course of several online conventions.

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

Twilight Imperium: Embers of the Imperium RPG confirmed for summer 2021

April 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the latest edition of Twilight Imperium Codex from Fantasy Flight Games, there are two pages of news that seem to confirm details around the Genesys-powered Twilight Imperium RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: edge, genesys, twilight imperium

Arkelon Chronicles brings alien technology to a fantasy RPG

April 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is set after alien ruins are unearthed in the frozen north, which jumps the technology of the fantasy races of Arkelon forwards by hundreds of years.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, sci-fi

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