RPG Magazines That Time Forgot… Dungeon #12
Dragon Magazine #12, July/August 1988Tag line: Adventures for TSR Role-Playing GamesMakers: TSR Inc.What is it?Where Dragon featured role-playing articles for various games (not just AD&D), but no adventures, the bim[...]Read on >>
Quick Fix: About the Reviews
I just wanted to point some things out really quickly about the reviews, to help people get an idea for how they work.Don't Expect Many 10s or 100s, If AnySo, first off, a 10 to me is a very big deal. It means that there[...]Read on >>
Review – ICONS: Superpowered Roleplaying
I mentioned before that I wanted to try my hand at reviewing, perhaps establish some 'cred' before trying for 'press' badges if I ever manage to get going to cons. Besides, it'll give people a reason to rip into me if I [...]Read on >>
Looking at Hero Lab: A Review
As a writer, a GM, and player, I need tools to help me get to the game table faster while making play smoother and easier. Hero Lab is one of those tools. For this review, I used my workhorse machine—a Pentium dual-cor[...]Read on >>
D&D Starter Red Box: The Solo Adventure and more…
Over the weekend, Stupid Ranger and I secreted ourselves in a mountain cabin outside of Colorado Springs and we brought along with us the D&D Red Box. We were accompanied by another couple who had never played D[...]Read on >>
Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition Review
The Freeport Companion: Pathfinder RPG Edition (affiliate link) does a great job of translating Green Ronin’s classic setting into the Pathfinder RPG system. I also have the Savage Worlds version of the book, and[...]Read on >>
Forgotten Realms Issue 15 – Fallen Idols (Part 1 of 4)
This issue begins with Foxilion Cardluck running for his life. He has the fabled Timepiece of Dragons hoisted over his head and is being pursued through caverns by a highly diverse group of goblinoid creatures. L[...]Read on >>
Review – ION Guard: ICONS Edition
ION Guard is a setting/organization supplement for the ICONS game that presents a new intergalactic organization of heroes. All of the ION Guard’s members wear a golden ION Fist, which provides them with a suite of s[...]Read on >>
Philosophical Reading
I just stumbled across a blog called "Points of Light: Mostly for D&D games". As the name says, it's mostly about D&D, which I don't play a lot of. It's also got a lot of Edition wars related posts (he really lik[...]Read on >>
Bring Some Luck to Your Dice
Are your dice unlucky? RPG players, do you have trouble rolling critical hits? Game Masters, do your NPCs die without having a chance to react? Do your monsters get slaughtered as you roll below 5 every time? I may[...]Read on >>
Harrowing Halls: Taking Dungeon Tiles to the 3rd Dimension
August 31, 2010 from Nuketown
Filed under: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, RPG Hub, Role-Playing Game Reviews, pathfinder
Harrowing Halls
by Wizards of the Coast
MSRP: $11.95
Buy from Amazon.com
Note: This review is based on a review copy of the tile set
Harrowing Halls is a Dungeon Tiles set for Dungeons & Dragons that takes the long[...] Filed under: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, RPG Hub, Role-Playing Game Reviews, pathfinder
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Enter the Singularity – Eclipse Phase Book Review
The Earth has experienced a great Fall, transhumanity is hanging on by many thin threads, and is scattered around the solar system. When your body can change and your mind is immortal, what choices will you make to help [...]Read on >>
First Impressions: The D&D Starter Red Box…
It has been a big week here at Stupid Ranger, and it even got capped off in epic fashion. I was taking my traditional nap before karate, and as I headed downstairs I spied something on the living room table. Some ben[...]Read on >>
Review: Duck! Duck! Go! Board Game from APE Games
“Duck! Duck! Go!” from APE Games first appeared on my radar at the GAMA Trade Show in 2009, but I did not get a chance to play it. This year, with the release of the sequel “Duck! Duck! Safari!” I[...]Read on >>
Module Retrospective: Red Hand of Doom
I recently chatted with someone about Red Hand of Doom. I cannot for the life of me remember who it was, where it was, or even what language it was in. However, the conversation gave me a push to reread the module, which[...]Read on >>
One Module, Every Game: The Dresden Files RPG
With the coming of autumn, the weather has grown colder, I’ve been swamped with clueless first-year students, and the game nights of TYR, and by extension the One Module, Every Game project, has returned from its s[...]Read on >>
Review – Kingmaker, Volume 2: Rivers Run Red
The second installment of Paizo’s Kingmaker adventure path gets to the heart of the campaign: kingdom-building. The PCs found their fledgling nation and begin to build it up; at the same time, they continue to explore[...]Read on >>
Review: Crusade and Conquer
Crusade and Conquer is a new chess variant from Canada that I ran across at GTS this year and finally got a chance to take it out for a spin. The board is a standard chess board with a couple of exceptions; castles! Ye[...]Read on >>
WR&M v2 Review
A while back I ran a playtest of Warrior, Rogue & Mage because it had captured my attention as a real DIY fantasy roleplaying game with a lot of potential. The playtest was a success, and my understanding is that &[...]Read on >>
The New D&D Starter Red Box: A Chatty and Nico Review
August 24, 2010 from Critical Hits
Filed under: 4e, D&D 4e, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, dungeons & dragons
The first product of the D&D Essentials product line, while likely to be the target of hordes of people who will complain that it is not what it could never be... is what I wished I opened in 1986.
It is an introd[...] Filed under: 4e, D&D 4e, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, dungeons & dragons
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Review: Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide
It’s now been a couple of weeks or so since the Advanced Player’s Guide came out, and I’ve been browsing it, reading stuff, and converting some old NPCs from 3.0 and 3.5 eras I had hanging around on my [...]Read on >>
Where to buy RPGs in Germany
No, I’m not asking the question although if you have a suggestion, let me hear it. Instead, I just wanted to put out a free and unsolicited plug for Sphärenmeisters Spiele. Not only do they carry (and more import[...]Read on >>
RPG Review: Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots To Inspire Game Masters
August 20, 2010 from Moebius Adventures Blog
Filed under: Inspiration, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, roleplaying
Have you ever found a sandwich that’s so big, juicy, messy, and full of sandwichy goodness that you can’t figure out where to start eating it? That’s kind of what happened when I grabbed a copy of Eurek[...] Filed under: Inspiration, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, roleplaying
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Review: “DC Adventures: Hero’s Handbook” RPG
My only major purchase at Gen Con was the DC Adventures: Hero's Handbook RPG, which is an updated version of Mutants and Masterminds. After playing in a demo run by (I believe) game designer Steven Kenson, I was certain [...]Read on >>
Review: Eoris Role-Playing Game World Book
Eoris, the new RPG from “Visions of Essence” is a very long time in coming. I first heard about it in 2008 and after interviewing the authors I was anxious to see the product. Due to some production delays, t[...]Read on >>
DriveThruRPG Blog Support
I keep forgetting to do this, so I'll post it now.As a gift to you the loyal readers/followers of this blog, DriveThruRPG has given me some codes to give to you to get 20% off from some publishers.So go to DriveThruRPG a[...]Read on >>
Get Ready to Throw Some S*#t – Poo Reviewed
Who flung Poo? It will have been you if you pick up this excellent game. Related posts:Not Quite Taking Care of Business – Globalization ReviewedOrigins 2010 Expanded Coverage – Matthew Grau InterviewGenCon[...]Read on >>
100 Reviews (and then some)
So tonight I hit the 100 mark for my reviews over at DriveThruRPG.You can see them all here.While we are at it, I also did some reviews over at Amazon and RPG.Net.Obviously there is some overlap.That is still a lot of ga[...]Read on >>
Review “Happy Birthday, Robot!”
In Happy Birthday, Robot! (HBR for short), the players work together to write a short story that emulates the form of a children's story. The story is written one sentence at a time, with three players having input into [...]Read on >>
Review – Slasher Flick: The Director’s Cut
Slasher Flick is a rules-light roleplaying game meant to emulate this horror film subgenre. The Director’s Cut is a nicely formatted version of the original rulebook, priced at $14.99 through RPGNow.com, with some bo[...]Read on >>
Barf Forth Apocalyptica! Review: Apocalypse World
Not for the faint of heart from both a thematic and playing philosophy point of view, Apocalypse World presents a very clever and potentially engrossing game. It's main focus is not so much on player accomplishment (or s[...]Read on >>
Review: Marauders of the Dune Sea
This is a truly terrible adventure. Just when I thought WotC had turned a corner with their scenario offerings, along comes this: shallow, two dimensional, railroaded, flat and occasionally just plain wrong foray into th[...]Read on >>
The Hellfrost Players Guide
The bards will sing your praises as you battle epic monsters straight out of Norse Myth in The Hellfrost Players Guide by Triple Ace Games. This is the first in a series of books detailing the frozen lands of Rassilon an[...]Read on >>
I Got Nothin’
Post Gen Con and Back to Work and getting everything done for the Fall term has left no time for blogging this week.You could pop over to DriveThruRPG and read some of the reviews I have written I suppose. I am up [...]Read on >>
Book Review – Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide
My take on the newest book from Paizo. Get ready for some awesome. Related posts:Quick Review: The Genius Guide to Air Magic for the Pathfinder RPGQuick Review: The Genius Guide to the Time Thief, a new character clas[...]Read on >>
Triple S, Triple Awesome: Shadow, Sword, & Spell Review
Well, this one was going to wait until Monday, but due to all of the requests I've been getting, I decided to move it up to today! Wow--you guys really wanted to know about this one! Here it is!Recently, I had the oppo[...]Read on >>
Repost – Reviews: Eldritch Weirdness Compilation – Books Three to One
(I had intended to have some more material up for Matt Finch Month, already. But, due to illness and another family medical issue, my time has been rather eaten up, this week. I have some more stuff coming, but for now, [...]Read on >>
D&D Creature Catalog
I recently reacquired the D&D Creature Catalog. I had a copy back in my Rules Cyclopedia days, and as I was working on my megadungeon I remembered a few choice entries that I wanted to make use of. E-Bay [...]Read on >>
Gen Con Haul, quick and dirty reviews, Part 1
Here are some of the things I got at Gen Con this year. Ok, that is a small lie. I actually didn't buy anything this year, but instead bought some on PDF before the Con and others afterwards. First up Pathfinder, t[...]Read on >>
Demonomicon: reviewed
July 2010 has been a bumper month for 4e releases. I’ve had to go hell for leather on my reading just to keep up. I’ve already covered the slimmer releases in Stonefang Pass and Vor Rukoth. Now it’s time to dive [...]Read on >>
open game table volume 2
DISCLAIMER: See cover for details. If you ask me for a benefit of blogging, I'd say working on collaborative projects like this. Open Game Table is an anthology of blog posts voted for and... Click the title i[...]Read on >>
GM or DM?
I’ve been working my way through the Pathfinder Gamesmastery Guide. The first couple of chapters won’t come as any surprise to experienced GMs, of any game. They cover the absolute basics of getting started and r[...]Read on >>
Review – Pathfinder’s Kingmaker, Volume 1: Stolen Land
Paizo’s newest adventure path is a marked departure from their earlier efforts. Previous paths have had six closely linked adventures with a more or less linear plot leading PCs from 1st to 15th (or so) level, whe[...]Read on >>
My first GenCon: Day 1
The Hotel: If you could care less about my personal experiences and wanna get to the good stuff, skip on down to “The Con”. Oh where do I begin, first off let me just say that the hotel that I’m staying[...]Read on >>
Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide
I thought that this was going to be cool. I was wrong. It’s just fantastic. If you’re playing Pathfinder just pick this up and drop every one of your old 3.5 splat books. You won’t need them. I’m [...]Read on >>
Of GW, the lure of Chaos, gribblies, and stuff
Space Hulk wins 2 Golden Geek AwardsMy recent visits to the pages of Black Library novels: Graham McNeill's Heldenhammer- which I picked up at Conflict 2010, and Nathan Long's Bloodborn- which I reviewed last month; thes[...]Read on >>
Review – Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Boxed Set
A recent issue of Fight On!, dedicated to Paul Jaquays, quotes his classic Judges Guild adventure, The Caverns of Thracia: “Nothing seems to scare someone who knows the rules like something totally unknown.” Tha[...]Read on >>
Open Game Table Vol. 2 at your FLGS, Lulu, RpgNow.com
Jonathan Jacobs, blogger and organizer extraordinaire, announced on The Core Mechanic today that you can buy the Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 2 on Lulu and RpgNow, as well as local gamin[...]Read on >>
harvest festival – review: kobold quarterly #14
Overall (4.5 kobolds): A big issue that captures the frantic activity of convention season. 96 pages of gaming goodness, the themes of honour and generosity are mentioned not just in terms of... Click the title if[...]Read on >>
Borderlands Review
I know that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to create a good game. That is why we tend to see games copying each other’s ideas resulting in a flop or a success. But when a game combines different game ge[...]Read on >>
