Short Reviews of short Pathfinder products, take 2

Just some more quick reviews of smaller Pathfinder products, today a set of the #1 with a Bullet Point products from Super Genius Games: All of the #1 with a Bullet Point products are short and to the point, they come wi[...]
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One Solstice Night

So I enjoy reading lots of different types of books and the one thing the advent of the eBook has given me is access to authors I might not other know about and access to their books.  So I stepped outside my normal[...]
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in search of the unknown

I've heard a lot of references to the 1981 module "In Search of the Unknown:" it came with the first edition of Basic D&D, and a lot of people have fond memories of it. I've never read it. When I got a heavy box of [...]
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Saturday May the 4th ‘Be With You’ 2013

The next Con-Quest Midlands takes place on Saturday May the 4th 'Be With You' 2013.Mark the date in your diaries, calendars, year planners, and schedules![...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Avengers Edition: 4-MAY-2012

Sure, it’s Friday. That automatically bumps today up a notch on the “doesn’t-suck-ometer,” right? But when you also have a movie like The Avengers released on a Friday, that blows the scale out of[...]
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True Tales of a Gaming Harlot: DREAD!

 Last week I threw down the first of three commentaries on new games I’ve tried ever since I decided to go hog wild with all the gaming I could cram... Read more »[...]
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3 Mini Reviews: Adventures, Gunslingers, and Doors

Hey all! It's been a while and, unfortunately, I don't have as nice an excuse for my absence as C.D. had (congrats on the little one, C.D.!). Mostly a new job with a revolving schedule that has sucked my gaming time dry[...]
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On The Shelf: RPG Thursday Reads

These are not the cutting edge of released last month games, but they are a random selection of games I’m reading—or reading again. My criteria for selection was to grab the first fistful of gaming books on the far r[...]
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EN World Review – Way of the Wicked (Book One: Knot of Thorns)

Today’s blog is coming at you a bit late, Dear Readers, and I feel fortunate to be able to have gotten anything accomplished at all.  I managed to injure myself earlier in the day, which left me fairly incapable at si[...]
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Review – The Genius Guide to Loot 4 Less: Bell, Book and Candle

As with all the Loot 4 Less series, a good selection of inexpensive items with bards and witches especially gaining some nice items to play with. The Genius Guide to: Loot 4 Less Volume 9 – Bell, Book and Candle is[...]
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White Dwarf Wednesday #14

We continue our trek through time and space back to England of the late 1970s with White Dwarf #14 from Aug/Sept 1979.How do you know you are reading White Dwarf and not The Dragon?  The ads have topless women in th[...]
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Citybook III: Deadly Nightside: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Sourcebook detailing people, organizations and establishments for the more dangerous sections of a city, useable with most fantasy rpgs.HEADING OFFJathan Alley. That’s the phrase our group uses to describe t[...]
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Stalker RPG, Self-Aggrandizement

It is time for some commercials! As you may know, I translated Stalker RPG for Burger Games, and the game was finally released in PDF back in March. Now, Burger Games finally got a print-on-demand option worked out that [...]
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Interview – Savage Mojo

Starting off with a more personal question, Savage Mojo has developed multiple products, including RPGs, novels, board games, and artwork related to the universe you’ve created – Suzerain. So what keeps you going? Wh[...]
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Where is Part 2?

If you are wondering where part two of 6d6 Shootouts – Sales Vectors is, there won’t be one. In writing the part two and doing the planning involved I realised it wasn’t right, that the whole approach w[...]
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Magazine Review: Adventure Quarterly, Issue #1 from Rite Publishing

Content is king, right? And he or she with the best content often wins, or at least gains more interest. One avenue to getting more content out in the ether is to create a blog. Or you could offer freebies to tempt folks[...]
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Review: Doctor Who – Aliens and Creatures

Back in January I wrote a review of the excellent Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space roleplaying game. Today I am having a look at the Aliens and Creatures supplement. Like DWAITAS Aliens & Creatures is a boxe[...]
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Wizards Watch: The Battle for Fighter Supremacy

Well, it appears that the current series of Legend & Lore articles are finally getting down to the nitty-gritty of defining the design goals for each class in D&D Next.  Last week, Monday’s Cleric Design Goa[...]
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All Continuum 2012 Freeform Sign-ups are now open!

Third, and thus fully open, sign-up's are now active on the Continuum 2012 Freeform WebsiteFrom that point on you can sign up for as many games as you think you can manage.IMPORTANT!! Please note: You will NOT be able to[...]
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Review – Deadlands Reloaded: The Flood

Deadlands Reloaded - The Flood Publisher: Pinnacle Entertainment Group Author: Shane Lacy Hensley, Matt Cutter Price: $19.99 on DriveThruRPG The Savage Troll continues its trek through Deadlands and I mu[...]
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Ace of Spies Hangout with the creators

By Paco Garcia Jaen Ace of Spies is a card game of set collecting and sneakiness that comes from the minds of two first time designers, Michael Fox and Mark Rivera with playtesting and development by industry legend Rich[...]
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Z is for Zombie

"Zombies are the new Vampires." - True BloodFunny quote and mostly true.  Thanks to the various "Dead" and "Resident Evil" movies, not to mention new TV shows, Zombies have never been more popular.Actually I have ne[...]
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To May, leaving April

Tomorrow brings the first day of May.  May was Maius in Latin and was named after the Greek goddess Maia, probably, who is associated with Spring.  So, what shall the theme be for May?  Spring and nature?  The fae an[...]
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Salute 2012–Episode 2 interviews

Every year, for the last 40 years, the the South London Warlords organise what has become the biggest and most iconic wargames and miniature games convention in the country. Source: G*M*S Magazine (http://s.tt/19Pko) [...]
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Upcoming DnDNext playtest

I think the internet and twitter likely exploded among RPG fanatics last week with the announcement that Monte Cook left the DnDNext project. At first I was spouting off maybe he left due to differences in what direction[...]
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News #X: Another 24-hour RPG Competition!

  I was slightly late to notice, but a little over a week ago, the people at 1KM1KT - including Rob Lang of the Free RPG blog - have opened a new 24 hour RPG competition. There's 30 pounds in Amazon vouchers to be w[...]
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Average Joes available in print and Servants of Gaius available for pre-order.

Average Joes (Available Now) When Terrorists interrupt a day of shopping at Bellpoint Mall, a group of ordinary citizens rise to the occasion and kick butt. Average Joes is a combination source book and game module for T[...]
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RetroReview: X1 – The Isle of Dread

All of this talk of DnDNext incorporating elements from older editions has me looking at the older pieces of my collection. I have several products written for older editions that are deserving of a review and that is wh[...]
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Seattle Scream (#33) prop and Shadowrun report

My monthly Shadowrun demo/continuing campaign moves on with the largest turnout yet (9 players!) and here is the latest Seattle Scream #33 used pregame and, yes, devil rats did make an appearance in the scenario. I also [...]
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Dragon by Dragon – June 1976

Who drew it? Couldn't find it in the issue.Yeah, everyone else does the whole "review every issue" or "review every page" thing, so why the heck can't I?Other than Great Britain and Iceland finally ending their codfish w[...]
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Review: Afraid of the Dark

I stumbled across this side trek when I was searching through old Dungeon Magazines for modules to run in my Borderland of Adventure campaign. It’s a great, short module/side trek style quest that takes a familiar se[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases So What’s The Weapon Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Weapon Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Richard Green designed to add colour and flavour to any GM[...]
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literary source of the brooch of shielding?

The Brooch of Shielding (which absorbs 101 HP of Magic Missile attacks) was useful in early D&D editions, when evil wizards filled so many slots in the wandering monster tables and when there were so few low-level a[...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 27-APR-2012

Another week has zipped by… Where does the time go? No gaming this weekend unfortunately, but I gamed last weekend so I really can’t complain much. Every two or three weeks seems to be a good schedule. Not so[...]
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And That’s The Way It Was…

While great (and not so great) events happen every day in the RPG community, yesterday, April 25th, seemed to be bigger one than most. Part of that is for personal... Read more »[...]
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Marvel’s and Whedon’s Avengers

NO SPOILERS – I have just gotten home from the theatre where my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed The Avengers. Liking Whedon’s past work,and being very pleased with the movie incarnations of Iron Man, Thor,  an[...]
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Citybook II: Port o’ Call: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT? Sourcebook presenting establishments for a port city, useable with most fantasy rpgs. TALES TO TELL BACK ON SHORE The first Citybook seems to have been intended as a one-off supplement, at least that’s the[...]
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Interview: Justin Gary of Gary Games

Last month Gary Games announced a new expansion for Ascension called Immortal Heroes. It is designed to be used as either a 2-player standalone game or as an expansion to the Storm of Souls set that was released earlier [...]
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D&D Next, Monte Cook, and all that

I been outed several times by several individuals as being part of the D&D Next Playtest so it is a bit of an open secret. I can't comment about the mechanics of the rules. It is hard to find anything concrete to say[...]
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EN World Review – Halls of Undermountain by WotC // News Flash: Monte Cook Quits Next Team?!

Greetings fellow gamers, and as always I hope that this “Hump Day” finds you hale and hearty, with a great many gaming plans laid for this coming weekend! Just a few minutes before I was getting ready to post this re[...]
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RELEASE: Expedition Beta

Well, it sure has been a long time coming, hasn’t it? Here it is. Not much to say – it’s the fantasy game I’ve been making. It’s the fantasy game I’d like to play. I was once a huge 4e fan[...]
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The Sinking: Bear Hunting

This installment of "The Sinking" from 0one Games is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advertisement, 1 page back cover and 1 page SRD, leaving 9 pages of content, so let's check thi[...]
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The Return of the d20 Hairsticks

Kelly Anne, my wife, makes beautiful hairsticks and sells them on etsy, a site that specializes in hand crafted items. In addition she has a line of gaming hairsticks that incorporate d20s and other dice.  In the pa[...]
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Review – Deadlands Reloaded Marshal’s Handbook Explorer’s Edition

Deadlands Reloaded Marshal’s Handbook Explorer's Edition Publisher: Pinnacle Entertainment Group Author: Shane Lacy Hensley Price: $19.99 The only thing to fear is fear itself, unless you’re a character in Deadl[...]
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Interview – Johnn Four (RoleplayingTips.com)

Starting off with a more personal question, RoleplayingTips.com has been running since November 1999. You started the site to improve your won GM skills. So what keeps you going? What keeps you enthusiastic about working[...]
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Supplement Review: Enemies of NeoExodus: The Folding Circle from LPJ Design

Ever since gamers went online and began publishing their own materials, it’s been truly astounding to see the diversity and creativity of some of those ideas. And when the PDF marketplace went crazy, the floodgates[...]
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try an easy rpg: d4 basic

I'm a big fan of easy D&D, which means, for me, two things: "easy for the dm to prep" and "easy to explain to a first-time player". For me, the ideal prep for a game involves brainstorming a few characters and gimmi[...]
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Salute 2012 video coverage–Episode 1

By Paco Garcia Jaen Every year, for the last 40 years, the the South London Warlords organise what has become the biggest and most iconic wargames and miniature games convention in the country. With attendance well in ex[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for April 15–21, 2012

I actually filed my taxes in the week before April 15, 2012. To celebrate my anticipated refund, I reviewed four products for DriveThruRPG. Yes, I admit, that’s not much of a celebration. Well, final exams are also[...]
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Review – Resnet’s Spellbook

Resnet’s Spellbook provides a wide variety of new spells and there are some good ideas here, especially the new bard spells, but it is a mixed bag. Resnet’s Spellbook is a spell sourcebook for the D20/OGL/3.x Fantasy[...]
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