I haven’t had as much of a chance to mention it on the blog, but I’ve been running Star Trek Adventures for a while now, and really enjoying the system. From a mental health standpoint, I’m enjoying running games in a future where humanity gets it collective act together and works for the greater good, and from a creative standpoint,
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Time for another round of first impressions with the release of a new Unearthed Arcana today. Press play on your MP3 of Alice Cooper’s “I Love the Dead,” because that’s kind of the theme of today’s offerings, with two new subclasses that deal with spirits from beyond. In this case, the subclasses are for bards and warlocks. The College of
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Magic items in Dungeons and Dragons started off as one of many, many tropes that got added to the game to emulate all the various sources that inspired the game. Everything from classic mythology and folklore to pulp stories describe various items, which got stats and could show up across the board. In early D&D, this meant people could randomly
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I’ve got a review of the new RPG Quest up today at Gnome Stew. Quest has been getting a lot of buzz lately online, and it’s interesting to take a look at a game that is very story-based, and leans heavily on resource spending and a multi-tiered dice resolution system. Swing by Gnome Stew to get a look at the
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Wizards of the Coast has posted a job opening for a Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While Wizards has been under fire since Orion Black’s discussion of their time working for the company, I wouldn’t doubt that this position was already being created before that came to pass. In their statement, Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of
Read moreIn case you actually want to hear my sonorous, deep, nasal voice being recorded as I talk about games, I’ve had two recent podcast appearances lately. The first one is on the Gnomecast, where I get the chance to talk with Ang and Senda again, this time about evolving preferences that we have learned from gaming online in recent months.
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Today over at Gnome Stew, I have a review up for Shotguns and Sorcery the Roleplaying Game, a hard-boiled fantasy setting based on a series of stories, and utilizing the rules for the Cypher System. If you are interested to see how Cypher System rules used for settings outside of those that have been presented by Monte Cook games, or
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Today saw another Unearthed Arcana drop for the first time in a while, and this time around, it’s all about new feats. I’m going to look at all of them individually, but first, I wanted to list all of the feats that are in the document, and I’m going to put a star next to all of the feats that
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I’ve got another article on the way that is going to dig a little bit deeper into some of the current issues with Wizards of the Coast and some of the missteps they have made recently, and what that could mean for D&D going forward. I’m not going to advocate for a boycott, and I’m not going to tell you
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I’ve got another review up, this time at Gnome Stew, where I’m looking at the fate based monster-hunting RPG #iHunt, which is based on a series of urban fantasy stories set in the fictitious California city of San Jenaro. #iHunt: The RPG Review Hunters don’t look for obscure clues in newspapers or on conspiracy theory websites. They look at an
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