Review: Alien Roleplaying Game At the gaming table, no one can hear you scream. Okay… one to five other players can hear you scream, as well as the GM. But the GM doesn’t care: your screams sustain them. I’m referring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Eberron – Rising From the Last War Way back in ye old days of 2002, publisher Wizards of the Coast launched the “Fantasy Setting Search”, a competition to create a new world for Dungeons & Dragons. The winner was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: The Sassoon Files Newcomer to the RPG scene is the indie publisher Sons of the Singularity. Founded in 2018 by two gamers who met while living in China, it makes sense that their first book would also be set […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Five years after the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set launched the 5th edition of D&D, publisher Wizards or the Coast has released a new introductory boxed set, the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit. Unlike the Starter Set—which was designed more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Eclipse Phase Second Edition Eclipse Phase is described as a” pen & paper roleplaying game of post-apocalyptic transhuman conspiracy and horror.” The first edition was released in 2009 and originally published by Catalyst Game Labs but now the game is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Pathfinder 2nd Edition Following the four month playtest in 2018, Paizo Inc has released a second edition of their Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Unlike the playtest for 5th Edition D&D, which was more of a series of concept tests, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Acquisitions Incorporated When someone writes the history of tabletop gaming for the first decades of the 21st Century, 2019 will go down as an unusual year, being filled with D&D partnership products that tie-in to other media. There’s the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Tales of the Old Margreve Way back in 2010, Kobold Press released Tales of the Old Margreve for the Pathfinder roleplaying game. A book of 8 forest adventures with 12 new monsters set in the publisher’s setting of Midgard. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Ghosts of Saltmarsh The spring 2019 release for Dungeons & Dragons is a compilation of older adventures. Like 2017’s Tales From the Yawning Portal. Like that product, Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a “low energy update” of adventures from previous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica In a surprise move this summer, Wizards of the Coast announced a fourth book for their 2018 schedule—the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica—breaking the pattern of previous years where there were only three major releases. Even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: D&D Endless Quest Way back in 1979, the Choose Your Own adventure book series began, being published for almost twenty years. Just three years later, TSR launched their own modular path adventure book series, the Endless Quest books. There […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Creature Codex Roleplaying game publisher Kobold Press second big book of monsters is the Creature Codex. The book was funded on Kickstarter, with the project launching less than a year ago, in December 2017. The book defied the odds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
