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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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This message will self-destruct in 3 seconds: CAPERS Covert RPG

September 22, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

CAPERS is a superhero RPG set in the 20s, and this Kickstarter will advance the timeline to the swinging 60s.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: capers, kickstarters, nerdburger games, superheroes

PunkApocalyptic: The RPG aims for victory through Kickstarting

September 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG, players take on the role of mercenaries fighting to survive in the bleak and radioactive wilderness left after the apocalypse.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, kickstarters, Punkapocalyptic, Shadow of the Demon Lord

Firefly, BSG, Supernatural RPGs’ system now owned by D&D Beyond

September 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

D&D Beyond’s parent company buys the Cortex RPG system, hires its creative director and talks about all the TV and movie possibilities.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Battlestar Galactica, cam banks, cortex, cortex prime, firefly, Margaret Weis Productions, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, serenity, Supernatural

Pathfinder Blowout: 70% off Pathfinder titles as DTRPG publishers move efforts to Pathfinder 2

September 21, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pathfinder Blowout sale offers up to 70% off 7, 531 Pathfinder downloads.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cthulhu, drivethrurpg, kobold press, loresmyth, midgard, pathfinder, petersen games, sales

Free to Download: 2-page Storm Area 51 RPG

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A free to download, quirky, 2-page RPG all about storming Area 51, looking for aliens and hanging with your weirdo friends.

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

A new World of Darkness came on Kickstarter – Deviant: The Renegades

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The publisher is asking for $35,000 to do a traditional print run of Deviant: The Renegades.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, onyx path publishing, world of darkness

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #14

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this column, we quickly summarise news and discoveries from the RPG industry. If it hit the radar this week, then it has a chance of making this bullet-point collection of headlines.

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Metal Weave Games now offering free Hyper Light Drifter RPG playtest

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

50 pages of character generation, combat and mechanics information for the planned Hyper Light Drifter RPG. Free to download.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, hyper light drifter, Metal Weave Games

It says Shadowrun on the cover: A review of Shadowrun 6e

September 20, 2019 by Guest Reviewer 6 Comments

This is a guest review from John Tuckey, and he is not a fan of the newly released Shadowrun 6e.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Catalyst Game Labs, reviews, Shadowrun

Devils versus Angels – Era: Forbidden turns to Kickstarter to decide

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inspirations for the game include Darksiders and Hellboy and it lands you in a war between angels and devils.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: angels, demons, kickstarters, Shades of Vengeance

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