Review: Cyberpunk Red
Review: Cyberpunk Red This game is based on the Cyberpunk rules and setting first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988 and updated as Cyberpunk 2020 two years later. Cyberpunk Red uses their...
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Avatar Legends Quickstart Review Having celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this year, the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender has demonstrated surprising longevity. Especially as it’s spinoff, The...
View ArticleReview: Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Review: Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft In the fall of 2020, Ray Winninger—the new Executive Producer of D&D—teased that three classic campaign settings were being updated to 5th Edition. The...
View ArticleReview: Ptolus City by the Spire
Review: Ptolus – City by the Spire Image Copyright Monte Cook Games Ptolus: City by the Spire was first published by Malhavoc Press way back in August, 2006. At the time, it was arguably “the most...
View ArticleReview: Candlekeep Mysteries
Review: Candlekeep Mysteries Image Copyright WotC On March 16th, Wizards of the Coast released a collection of 17 adventures that run from levels 1 to 16. (If they had one fewer adventure, that would...
View ArticleReview: Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Review: Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything A surprising three years after the last D&D rules expansion, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, and Wizards of the Coast has finally released the next...
View ArticleReview: Mythical Adventures of Theros
Review: Mythical Adventures of Theros The second hardcover campaign setting adapting a plane from Magic the Gathering to the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Mythical Adventures of Theros was...
View ArticleReview: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount
Review: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount In a surprise move, Wizards of the Coast partnered with the streaming show Critical Role to release a campaign setting product detailing the continent of...
View ArticleReview: Witcher RPG
Review: Witcher RPG In recent years, the Witcher Saga has moved from the sidelines of popular culture to smack in the forefront of nerdom. The origins of the series are Polish. The first short story,...
View ArticleReview: Alien Roleplaying Game
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...
View ArticleReview: Eberron – Rising From the Last War
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 &...
View ArticleReview: The Sassoon Files
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...
View ArticleReview: D&D Essentials Kit
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...
View ArticleReview: Eclipse Phase Second Edition
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...
View ArticleReview: Pathfinder 2
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,...
View ArticleReview: Acquisitions Incorporated
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...
View ArticleReview: Tales of the Old Margreve
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...
View ArticleReview: Ghosts of Saltmarsh
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...
View ArticleReview: Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica
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...
View ArticleReview: D&D Endless Quest
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...
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