Dungeons & Dragons Red Box Review
I received and early copy of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Red Box Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starter Set last week. It’s the first product to be released from the 4th edition Essentials...
August 30, 2010
Reviews & First Looks
Check out these WR&M reviews!
Recently a few more reviews of WR&M have been released. The first has been written by Ina Vegt of the “Tales of the Swampwitch’s Adventures” blog. Some while ago she already reviewed the...
August 27, 2010
D&D Essentials “Red Box” Unboxing
Youseph got his review copy of the new D&D Red Box today and recorded a short unboxing video. He told me that there will be a review coming soon, so stay tuned! In...
August 27, 2010
Eureka!
Some time ago, Martin Ralya of GnomeStew.com and Engine Publishing asked me if I was interested in reviewing Eureka. I’ve read about Eureka before and since I am chronically under-prepared for my games,...
August 25, 2010
Review: The Savage World of Solomon Kane
I can’t deny it, I am an avid Savage Worlds fan. I like the rules-light system and the original settings released for it. I think the first time I heard about Solomon Kane...
August 24, 2010
Dicebook review
Some time ago I had the opportunity to give away a free copy of Dicebook, a PDF reader and dice rolling app for the Apple iPad. But since I haven’t had an iPad...
August 23, 2010
GameScience Dice Review
Last March I wrote a post titled The Importance of Dice where I talked about how important dice are to both players and game masters alike. It seems like everywhere I look every...
August 18, 2010
First Impression: Ion Guard
While some people are out carousing on a far away gaming convention currently taking place (don’t ask I won’t name names), others have to mind the shop and console themselves with picking up...
August 6, 2010
D&D4e / Dragon Age / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
Review: Kobold Quarterly Issue 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 got my hands on. Aside from a lot of material...
August 3, 2010
Just my two cents / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about the GameMastery Guide? A review…
The Paizo GameMastery Guide is an excellent companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rule Book. The Core Rulebook combines all the rules you used to find in the old D&D 3.5 Player’s Handbook...
August 3, 2010
What about Creepy Creatures? A review!
Creepy Creatures is a monster book for the Pathfinder RPG by Alluria Publishing. This is the first product by Alluria I have read and I’m glad I did! I am a sucker for monster books;...
July 21, 2010
Atomic Highway
Recently I learned about the awesome post-apocalyptic roleplaying game Atomic Highway by reading Berin Kinsman’s review. While he’s not really into the genre, he really like the games’ mechanics and toolbox approach. I...
July 20, 2010
Dark Sun Light… Microlite that is!
Andrew Mordo, also known as Corvus, fellow contributor to this blog and all around nice guy put together a little gem called Dark Sun Microlite. He’s our resident Microlite expert but I’ll take...
July 19, 2010
Mutants & Masterminds / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
First Impressions: DC Adventures
As soon as it was available, I decided to preorder the DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook from Green Ronin Publishing. Although I never actually had the chance to run a superhero game I really...
July 14, 2010
Review: Legends of Steel – Savage Worlds Edition
There are campaign settings for Savage World for almost every genre. One genre I’ve been missing for some time was Swords & Sorcery. But luckily Jeff Mejia aka EvilDM released Legends of Steel...
July 14, 2010
What about SORD? A (short) review…
Some days ago I wrote about game master screens and readers correctly pointed out that even if I don’t use a traditional screen, when I use my laptop in the game the computer serves the...
July 13, 2010
Fantasy Craft / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG / Video
Video Review: Fantasy Craft
On the weekend I finally sat down and tried to record a video review of Fantasy Craft. I am using the word “try” because the result is probably not the best review possible...
July 12, 2010