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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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Legendary Dragons: Kickstarter for 3D printing files earns thousands Fandom gives us a look inside Cortex Prime Alliance Game Distributors won’t pay games publishers Free to Download: The Elder Scrolls wargame Call to Arms Free to Download: Two free Eclipse Phase supplements

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Legendary Dragons: Kickstarter for 3D printing files earns thousands

April 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve seen Kickstarter campaigns for some gaming minis earn tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands. How much do you think one would earn if it offered STL files for people who own 3D printers to use?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 3d printers, dragons, jetpack 7, kickstarters, models

Fandom gives us a look inside Cortex Prime

April 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It introduces the idea that Cortex games need to find a setting and that there are pre-made settings in the book.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cortex, cortex prime, fandom

Alliance Game Distributors won’t pay games publishers

March 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A large distributor of tabletop games won’t be paying publishers this week for sales from local stores.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Diamond Comic Distributors

Free to Download: The Elder Scrolls wargame Call to Arms

March 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the wargame, you can play solo or together against ‘AI’ controlled rivals, or you can go head to head.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Modiphius Entertainment, the elder scrolls, wargames

Free to Download: Two free Eclipse Phase supplements

March 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic transhuman RPG from Posthuman Studios.

Filed Under: Books, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eclipse Phase, free to download, posthuman studios

Dungeons on Demand appear in the Bundle of Holding

March 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dan Coleman’s Dungeons on Demand fifth edition products have a 21-day offer on the Bundle of Holding. You can check out these instant tabletop fantasy adventures here. Starter Collection – $7.95 There are three products in each of the two bundles, the Starter Collection being the first (and required) purchase. Dungeons on Demand Low-Level Adventure […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Dungeons & Dragons

Free to Download: A bundle of Loke battle mats

March 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s an encounter map for Airship Ajax, an arcane circle, a cargo deck, a city tavern, an underground dungeon chasm, ruins, the insider of a shuttle, a siege emplacement, a stone bridge, library and sailing ship and even town streets.

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

Free copy of the Lancer RPG in exchange for a Covid-19 charity donation

March 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Geek Native reviewed Lancer at the start of the year, the mecha RPG-meets-skirmish strategy game from Massif Press and liked it. The original RPG is the result of a successful Kickstarter which has fulfilled in digital and has the core rules at the printers. There are a fan-run Discord server and a free to download […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: lancer, Massif Press

Basic World Building: Design a Base Town

March 28, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Basic World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and reimagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.

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

Free to Download: The Dark Eye RPG

March 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, Ulisses Spiele has made that English language version of The Dark Eye a Pay What You Want game at DriveThruRPG.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, solo rpgs, the dark eye, Ulisses Spiele

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