I’ve reviewed a few of the Achtung! Cthulhu adventures that have come out so far. Most of them have been shorter one-shot products with pre-generated characters, with some of them coming out before the full system and referencing the Quick Start rules. These have been PDF only releases that skip around in the timeline of World War II. While previous
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I’ve been doing first impressions of all the individual chapters of the opening arc of Fables, which unfold into the Citadel of the Unseen Sun campaign. This time around, I’m going to wrap up looking at the sixth installment, then take a look at the overall campaign arc. If you want to see the previous entries in this series, you
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How many times have you picked up an RPG, and really wanted to get it to the table, but you either don’t have the time, or the buy-in from the members of your regular gaming group? Would you be interested in being able to give those rules a workout in a manner that provides some twists and turns that you
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I’m going to chronicle a bit of my Strider Mode play with a character that I’m going to create. This will be a solo character for The One Ring second edition. I thought it might be fun to mix up what was expected and go with a character that is a little different that might be seen in the setting.
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Huge Unearthed Arcana dropped yesterday (as of the time that I’m writing this). And by huge, I mean giant. And by giant, I mean it’s about giants. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s take a look at this. If you haven’t encountered Unearthed Arcana before, these are the playtest documents that Wizards of the Coast release a few months
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What’s the date? Well, looks like its Arcadia the 16th. In other words, it’s time to take a look at this month’s Arcadia magazine from MCDM. This time around we’ve got three articles to look at, across 33 pages. Let’s jump in. Disclaimer As usual, I’ve been provided with a copy of Arcadia early so I can write a review.
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The Talisman Adventures RPG occupies an interesting space in current RPG design. To capture the feel of the boardgame, it attempts to capture a specific setting that, at the same time, uses broad storytelling conventions that draw from both fairytale stylization and epics. For example, The City has specific traits, but it is The City. The most closely analogous setting
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Reaching out across the geeky-verse and looking at a book today. I recently finished up Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, and I wanted to take some time to look at this book. The sub-title of this is A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes. I saw this novel pop up a few places on my timeline on RPG
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It’s been a while since I visited the alternate World War II of Achtung! Cthulhu, so I thought I might take a look at one of the most recent of the mission PDFs in the line. If you’re curious about the game system, and you haven’t seen it yet, you can find my First Impression here on Gnome Stew. While
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It’s after the first of the month, and that means another installment of Ghostfire Gaming’s Fables is available. We’re currently on episode five of six, and we’re less than a month away from the final adventure in this series. If you haven’t read my other reviews of this series, it’s not too late to get right with the universe, but
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