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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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The D&D powered Stargate RPG is now open for public playtesting An RPG about fish and hope: Descent into Midnight The Witcher TTRPG provides free crossbow upgrade rules Routinely Itemised: RPGs #37 Available for one day only: WotC’s Secret Lair

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The D&D powered Stargate RPG is now open for public playtesting

March 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can now join the Tau’ri and fight back against the Goa’uld while helping Wyvern Gaming test their D&D powered official Stargate RPG.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gen con, stargate, Wyvern Gaming

An RPG about fish and hope: Descent into Midnight

February 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The gameplay is about the relationships between guardians. Remember, though, you could be a sentient bubble, a magical kelp forest or an angsty fish.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, powered by the apocalypse

The Witcher TTRPG provides free crossbow upgrade rules

February 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this new bit of The Witcher TTRPG lore, Rodolf introduces crossbow upgrades.

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

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #37

February 28, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The future of D&D, the possible future of D&D Beyond and enough RPG Zines from Kickstarter to break any set of shelves.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cyberpunk red, Dungeons & Dragons, exalted funeral, goodman games, hasbro, judges guild, matt mercer, Mike Pondsmith, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised, solo rpgs, soulbound, unearthed arcana, w.m. akers, warhammer age of sigmar, wizards of the coast

Available for one day only: WotC’s Secret Lair

February 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

To mark International Women’s Day, Wizards of the Coast will sell Secret Lair boxes for $49.99 and give $25 for each sale to the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (in the States).

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, international women's day, magic the gathering, wizards of the coast

Soulbound reveals the Great Parch Map

February 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Illustrated by Jared Blando the Great Parch map shows where Sigmar first unleashed his Stormcast Eternals and pushed back against the armies of Chaos.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar

Gorgeous wooden hit point trackers

February 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you use dice to keep track of your current hit points? It’s a common approach because it’s fast, effective, and an excuse to keep dice around.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Etsy, household, kickstarters

How do you stop players being murder hobos?

February 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Sessions since last murderhobo incident: 0

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour

Shadow of the Bat: The animated Batman series gets a board game

February 26, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

IDW Games’ latest Kickstarter is for Shadow of the Bat a Batman animated series board game. It’s part of the Adventures Universal Game System and fully compatible with it.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: batman, board games, kickstarters

D&D Beyond unveils a combat tracker

February 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Track the initiative order of characters and monsters, auto-rolling for the monsters to save time.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dndbeyond

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