Review: Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book and Heroes of Magnamund

I still have very fond memories of the Lone Wolf game books I lent from my friend Sven back when we were still in school. The Lone Wolf books focus on the world of Magnamund, where  the forces of good and evil fighting [...]
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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 product line. I have alr[...]
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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 4-paged version of the [...]
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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 the meantime, enjoy the video! I have to admit[...]
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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, it looked like [...]
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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 was when Pinnacle Entertainment announced “T[...]
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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 myself at that time, I couldn’t give it a try myself. Bu[...]
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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 person has their own unique way of holding[...]
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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 a new gaming supplement o[...]
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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 for games like D&D 4th Edition, Pathfi[...]
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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 and Dungeon Master’s Guid[...]
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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; you can never have enough mo[...]
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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 approac[...]
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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 a stab at doing a revi[...]
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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 like the genre. I very much en[...]
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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 in a Savage Worlds ed[...]
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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 same purpose as the scree[...]
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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 but it works as a proof of concept.[...]
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What about the ICONS Character Folio? A review…

I am a confessed ICONS fan, you can see my review and various character write ups (here, here and here), so when new products came up for sale in RPGNow I was thrilled. The new products are ICONS: The Skeleton Key, an ad[...]
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Soapbox Games Reviews

Moritz Mehlem, a German old-school advocate who is pretty well known for his blog “Von der Seifenkiste herab” and his involvement in the Labyrinth Lord community, has recently started releasing his works on DriveThru[...]
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Review: End Time

Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere’s End Time is a dark vision of the future, a world where the stars where right and humanity had to abandon Earth. The book itself also had a quite tumultuous past. The basic idea came from LaB[...]
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Review: End Time

Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere’s End Time is a dark vision of the future, a world where the stars where right and humanity had to abandon Earth. The book itself also had a quite tumultuous past. The basic idea came from LaB[...]
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Review: Cthulhu Rising

Usually Call of Cthulhu games are set into the 1920s, the Victorian age or modern times. But there are some exceptions. This week I want to have a look at two books that help Keepers running Call of Cthulhu games in the [...]
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Review: Cthulhu Rising

Usually Call of Cthulhu games are set into the 1920s, the Victorian age or modern times. But there are some exceptions. This week I want to have a look at two books that help Keepers running Call of Cthulhu games in the [...]
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Review: Hounds of G.O.D.

Hounds of G.O.D. by Adam J. Weber Games is a  40-paged roleplaying game which is crammed full of awesomeness. Hounds of G.O.D. is set into a dystopian future. A minority of the population benefits from all the techn[...]
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Review: Hounds of G.O.D.

Hounds of G.O.D. by Adam J. Weber Games is a  40-paged roleplaying game which is crammed full of awesomeness. Hounds of G.O.D. is set into a dystopian future. A minority of the population benefits from all the techn[...]
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My Orcus & Me!

Today I got my Orcus, Prince of Undeath Gargantuan Figure. I was so excited to get the news that my FLGS had received it that I spent all day daydreaming about it. To the points where I remembered an old toy commercial f[...]
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My Orcus & Me!

Today I got my Orcus, Prince of Undeath Gargantuan Figure. I was so excited to get the news that my FLGS had received it that I spent all day daydreaming about it. To the points where I remembered an old toy commercial f[...]
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Assassins, and Necromancers, and Hexblades! Oh My!

I was quite excited when I recently read the Critical Hits post titled, “D&D 4e: The New Player’s Option.” In the post written by Bartoneus it was discovered that Wizards of the Coast will be putting ou[...]
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Does the GM Screen deserve to go the way of the Dodo?

I always tell myself I’m not going to buy it. But I always do and I’m consistently underwhelmed or outright disappointed! There was a time when I had a use for Game Master Screens. They offered cardboard-based defens[...]
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Review: The Kobold Guide to Game Design Volume I

Recently a lot of RPG blogs have posted reviews of the third volume of the Kobold Guide, so it seems I am a bit late to the party. In the long run I plan to post reviews of the second and third volume, too, but today I w[...]
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Deathwatch: Final Sanction

Fantasy Flight Games’ preview adventure to the upcoming Deathwatch roleplaying game is finally available for download at RPGNow. Deatchwatch is another RPG set into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. This time players adop[...]
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What about the Genius Guide to Mystic Godlings? A review…

Like my previous post this one is also a review of a PDF product we received a review copy of, this time around the Genius Guide to Mystic Godlings by Super Genius Games. This is the sequel to a previous electronic book,[...]
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What about Champions Universe? A review…

This is a short review about a PDF product we recently received a review copy of, Champions Universe by Hero Games. This is the default Hero System superhero universe. A rich, detailed campaign setting imbued with the fe[...]
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What about ICONS? A review…

ICONS RPG is a new superhero role-playing game by Adamant Entertainment. It has been enthusiastically received by the role-playing community, if blog posts and sales at RPG Now/Drive Thru RPG are any indication. Since fi[...]
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Review: Sunken Empires

Sunken Empires is one of Open Design’s latest Pathfinder compatible products. On 82 pages you get in my opinion the definite works on underwater adventuring for Paizo’s Pathfinder RPG and much, much more. I don’t e[...]
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WFRP Toolkit

On May 19th Fantasy Flight Games’ WFRP Toolkit appeared on the iTunes AppStore. It’s a dice rolling application for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game which uses dice pools of custom dice for task resolution checks.[...]
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TrollsZine Issue 2

Issue 2 of TrollsZine, the new Tunnels & Trolls magazine has been recently released on Lulu. The free magazine is available at Lulu and this issue not only features a full-color cover but it’s also a whopping 92 pa[...]
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Review: The Armitage Files

When I first heard about “The Armitage Files” I was intrigued at once (Robin Laws actually mentioned it in the interview I did with him last September)! The 152-paged softcover book is a campaign for the Trail of Cth[...]
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Review: Realms of Cthulhu

Realms of Cthulhu is a campaign setting for Savage Worlds published by Reality Blurs. The 160-paged book contains everything needed to run a Cthulhuesque campaign but the Savage World rules. A copy of the Savage Worlds E[...]
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What about Don’t Rest Your Head? A review…

Two weeks ago I got to play a new game. It’s not something I do as often as I would like, so when a friend wanted to try a new RPG I jumped at the opportunity. He gave me the book to read and that was my first contact [...]
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Review: Open Versatile Anime RPG

Some time ago I purchased the OVA RPG on Lulu. Much like the better known “Big Eyes, Small Mouth” it’s a multi-genre roleplaying game meant to bring the tropes of Japanese anime to the gaming table. I would not cal[...]
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Maps, maps, maps! A trio of reviews… Part 3 – Map Packs

On the last leg of this review of mapping aides and tools I use for my D20 games lets talk about Maps Packs. This little shrink wrapped treasure throve may look unassuming in the gaming store shelve, but once you open th[...]
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Maps, maps, maps! A trio of reviews… Part 2 – Dungeon Tiles

Continuing my reviews of the map aides I use for my games. On my previous post I talked about Flip Mats. Another great tool is Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon Tiles. What can be said about them, that others have not sai[...]
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Maps, maps, maps! A trio of reviews… Part 1 – Flip Mats

As an avid player of D20 games maps have become an integral part of my games. On a previous post I talked about cheap battlemats and what I use for most of my mapping needs, but these are not my only options, far from it[...]
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Preview: Space 1889 – Red Sands

Almost exactly one year ago, Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced Space 1889: Red Sands, a Savage Worlds campaign setting based on the classic Victorian SF roleplaying game. I already own a copy of Heliograph’s repri[...]
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Review: “A Keg for Dragon”

Old School Fantasy #1: “A Keg for Dragon” is the latest adventure from Reality Blurs for Savage Worlds. I am a big fan of Savage Worlds but I never ran any classic fantasy games in it, so I just had to get a copy of [...]
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Ordo Draconis, a review…

Apparently as a result of my previous review of the Pathfinder RPG (Which many of you seem to have liked, thank you!); I received a review copy of Ordo Draconis #2. What is Ordo Draconis you say? They describe themselves[...]
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Tales of the Arabian Nights

Welcome back to another boardgame review at Stargazer’s World! For my second article I have chosen my newest acquisition: Tales of the Arabian Nights by Eric Goldberg, published by Z-Man-Games. I have to digress a [...]
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What about Pathfinder? A review…

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has been out for a while, since August 2009, and it’s made me a happy gamer so far! So if you want the short of it there you have it. Interested in a little more detail? Ok read on… M[...]
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