Review: Ruined Empires
Ruined Empires is an 43-paged adventure for Abney Park’s Airship Pirates (read my review here) written by the games’ authors Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton. And as in the rulebook Abney Park’s Robert...
February 27, 2012
News & Reviews
First impression: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Yesterday the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game by Margaret Weis Production has been released in PDF form. I’ve been looking forward to this game for a while, mostly because I heard good things about...
February 22, 2012
Adventurer Conqueror King
This morning I stumbled upon “Adventurer Conqueror King” on RPGNow. It’s a roleplaying game based on OD&D and using the OGL that has a focus on what I would call the “endgame”. The...
February 17, 2012
Review: Campaign Cartographer 3 and Addons
Campaign Cartographer 3 is definitely one of the RPG tools I wish I had more time to work with. When you design your own campaign setting or even if you’re just running a...
February 15, 2012
Geek Love Rules!
It’s Valentine’s Day, people, the perfect opportunity to get your significant other geek a gift from DriveThruRPG. Under the motto “Geek Love Rules” they have complied a list of romance-related RPG products that...
February 14, 2012
Just when I thought the Iron Kingdoms RPG was vaporware …
When you’ve followed the blog for a while you might have noticed that I am a huge fan of the Iron Kingdoms setting by Privateer Press. But I also thought that D&D 3.0/3.5...
February 7, 2012
Feb-Wu-ary!
Third Eye Games’ Eloy Lasanta just reminded me that February 2012 is the 2nd Annual Wu Xing Giveaway Month. So what does that mean? At first you get a free copy of Wu...
February 7, 2012
Cubicle 7 Sale at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG
Recently Cubicle 7 has reduced the prices for a lot of their products on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. You can get the excellent Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein (read my review here) for mere $10 for...
February 3, 2012
Port Loren Travel Agency! Star Frontiers Virtual Con 2012
I am a longtime fan of Star Frontiers, I’ve written about it before, and every now I then I visit the fan sites still supporting the game. Imagine my surprise when I discovered...
January 31, 2012
Get Kobold Quarterly #14 for free
Back in August 2010 I wrote the following about KQ#14: Currently I play none of the games which are regularly covered by Kobold Quarterly, but so far I’ve enjoyed reading every issue I...
January 30, 2012
D&D4e / Dragon Age / Humor / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about the Kobold of Winter, aka #20? A review…
“The Winter Kobold is coming!” If those were the words of House Stark, Eddard would have faced a different fate! Because the know Kobolds are powerful, dangerous creatures. Well at least that’s what...
January 20, 2012
D&D4e / Dragon Age / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
Oldies but goodies! Some great digital game supplements for the New Year…
It’s really strange that I just classified as “oldies” some books that became available in digital format just a few short months ago. I guess it’s the nature of the digital age, the...
January 12, 2012
Our thoughts on D&D 5th Edition
I have to admit that I was totally oblivious to WotC’s big announcement (which was first published by the NY Times) until my team member Youseph told me about it. But I don’t...
January 11, 2012
Review: Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space
Roleplaying games based on licensed material are usually hit or miss. Either they are either utter crap or totally awesome. Luckily the game based on one of my favorite TV series is the...
January 9, 2012
First Look: Carcosa
I don’t remember when I first heard about Carcosa. I think someone mentioned it on Twitter or I discovered a link to some preview somewhere. But I was immediately intrigued. Carcosa is a...
December 16, 2011
Holiday Hoopla at DriveThruRPG
As in the months before we can provide you with a discount code that gives you off 20% from selected products at DriveThruRPG. And while the list for December may be short, it...
December 15, 2011
News from Promethea
Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein is undoubtedly one of the most impressive games I reviewed this year. It stands out from a lot of other games because of its unique alternate history setting...
November 29, 2011