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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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Tabletop & RPGs Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Tabletop & RPGs reporting (Archive Page 97).

In a high-tech Viking age, where neon meets Norse mythology, the Shield Maidens rise!

March 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From Alison Cybe, whose work includes the Fallout RPG, comes Shield Maidens, a cooperative TTRPG where players forge their legend as warriors against a tyrannical empire, wielding magic and advanced technology.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, Mongoose Publishing, shield maidens

UK Games Expo: Parable Games will run a multi-table

March 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The horror TTRPG Shiver, a gold best seller at DriveThruRPG, will get a multi-table epic game at this year’s UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: parable games, shiver, uk games expo

In Ruins is a castle-building, castle-falling-into-ruins and fighting-over-the-remains game

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The action kicks off with a castle. However, neither the castles nor the crowdfunding for In Ruins will be around for long, as we only have until March 25th to back the Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters

Sigil failed already? Wizards of the Coast lay off most of their VTT developers

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The official D&D virtual tabletop, now officially called Sigil, was released three weeks ago. It launched on Feb 28th, promising players the chance to experience the game in stunning 3D.

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: d&d beyond, Dungeons & Dragons, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast

Free League Publishing bring the indie RPG Black Powder and Brimstone to game stores

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Black Powder and Brimstone is a MÖRK BORG-compatible indie but standalone RPG packed with lore, explosions, magic, war, and demons.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, mork borg

Chainsaws and Canopies: Is The Wildsea Bundle the Weird Fantasy Your TTRPG Collection Craves?

March 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Wildsea is bizarre beauty and perilous adventure where you might play anything from a daring captain to, yes, even a character who is part of a hive collective!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, the wildsea

RPG Publisher Spotlight: Stonehome Games

March 18, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Stonehome Games won the RPG Publisher Spotlight this month, and I hope the timing works out for them because they’re a contender in the 5th Worldbuilding Awards in which you can vote.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs

Emmet Byrne’s “Beyond the Woods” is an Irish hexcrawl for survival

March 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The game is set in an Irish mythology-inspired Tir Nascath, a dark land where the magical Golden Oak has been protecting people from the undead Slaugh.

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

Never Going Home: Haunted Trenches RPG bundle

March 17, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Never Going Home is a game of shared storytelling. Gaming groups collectively create a soldier Unit and play through their experiences.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, horror, never going home, wet ink games

Worldbuilding Amazing Adventures: More Monsters

March 16, 2025 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Amazing Adventures is a d20 game of modern adventure. Amazing Adventures uses familiar old school rules but keeps the roll high vision of later editions.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: amazing adventures, rpg tips, world building

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