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…
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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…
Dungeon of the Mad Mage takes place almost entirely in Undermountain, a vast dungeon complex under the city of Waterdeep. Undermountain has shown up a few times in past editions, being the subject of a couple boxed sets as well as a couple previous hardcover adventures. What It Is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Tomb of Annihilation The last six or seven sessions of my Borderlands homegame were subsumed with the Tomb of Annihilation. I last discussed my game here with the entry into the Tomb. This week, my group finally emerged victorious from […] ↓ 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…
Review: Waterdeep: Dragon Heist For the fall of 2018, Wizards of the Coast decided to release another two-part storyline adventure, and their first storyline adventure running from level 1 all the way to level 20. The first of these adventures […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Vampire 5th Edition Rising from death-like torpor, as if it were a vampire itself, game publisher White Wolf has returned and released a fifth edition of the Vampire roleplaying game. This time, White Wolf is aided in publishing and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Pathfinder 2 Playtest In early March of 2018, Paizo Inc announced they’d be publishing a major revision of their Pathfinder game in 2019, the 10th anniversary of Pathfinder the RPG. Prior to this, they would be conducting a mass […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron In a somewhat surprising move, Wizards of the Coast has released a 5th Edition update of the Eberron campaign world, written by the setting creator, Keith Baker. The Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron is a $20 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…