The Elves of Alfheim: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Sourcebook for Elves in the classic D&D setting of Mystara. INTO THE WOODSThe Gazetteer series now makes a significant turn- moving from nations and adventure settings to a deep treatment of particular M[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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review: kobold quarterly 20

Metric: Kobolds.  They've proven their worth even in these straitened times.  One of nature's survivors and what's this - next issue they can go into a tavern?  Must be doing something... Click the title [...]
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Review: Thunderstone (Base Set)

Game Night Blog Carnival Greetings readers! I’ve recently become part of the Game Night Blog Carnival, wherein once a month some of us RPG bloggers sit down and talk about the board, card, and other miscellaneous g[...]
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Game Night: Thunderstone

Welcome to the Game Night Blog Carnival for December! You can get more information about the carnival at the main Game Night site. Thunderstone is a deck-building game from Alderac Entertainment Group where players cont[...]
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Book Review: Unusual Suspects: Guide to an Interrogation Session by Robert Oglodzinski from Library of Ancient Scroll

When I started working with Robert Oglodzinski a few months ago, I reviewed Walls Can Talk, which collects a few “legends and adventure ideas” for fantasy and horror games. The layout, done by Michael Wolf (S[...]
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Loviatar

I've never bought a zine before. It always seemed silly to drop cash on something someone typed up, copied, and stapled in their basement, especially when I could just pick up an issue of Dragon magazine where I could ge[...]
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Game Night Blog Carnival: Thunderstone

Welcome to the new Game Night Blog Carnival! This is a feature we’re doing once a month with a few other RPG blogs. If you have an RPG blog, and would like to participate, check out the FAQ at the main Game Night p[...]
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Welcome To The Empire State

Adam Christopher’s debut novel, Empire State, is billed as a mix of science fiction, noir and super heroes. It’s actually quite light in the super hero department and heavy on the noir elements. And there’s nothing[...]
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Supplement Review: Caves & Caverns (PFRPG) by Creighton Broadhurst and David Posener from Raging Swan Press

Just about every fantasy campaign I’ve ever played in has involved a cave system or cavern at one time or another. And though I’m a fan of dungeons, I really like it when there’s more of a natural eleme[...]
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[Review] A Dirty World

A Dirty World is an indie tabletop RPG  about secrets, deception, betrayal and hidden vice. What are you buying? 70 pages filled with one of the few pure Noir games out there. No superpowers, aliens, menaces from t[...]
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News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12

Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a fam[...]
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DriveThru Reviews

These are more like "Drive By" reviews since I am posting rather fast today.  Also a mixed bag of stuff.Power Pics Heroes 1 -Female SpeedsterGreat concept really. Provide the art and a paper mini for the g[...]
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Review: The Game Master by Tobiah Panshin

  I thought I’d do something a little different and review something slightly more out of the ordinary. I’d originally planned to have this up and online in November when I first heard about it, but I[...]
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Kingdom of Ierendi: RPG Items I Like

WHATIS IT?Regionsourcebook covering a island confederation dedicated to "adventure"in the Mystara  setting. ONFIRST LANDINGIcontinue my reviews of the entire classic D&Dgazetteer series.After[...]
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Masks, the good, the bad, and the ugly

By Silveressa Today I have the opportunity to review Masks, a system neutral RPG supplement written by the authors of gnomestew.com. Overview Masks is perhaps best described as a “must have addition to any GM’s tool [...]
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Pathfinder Minis: Heroes and Monsters Review

Earlier this week I read this review on ENWorld about the new prepainted plastic Pathfinder minis licensed from Paizo to Wizkids. I was in my FLGS today and they had a batch, so I picked up a large and normal … Con[...]
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White Dwarf Wednesday Issue 3

Welcome back to White Dwarf Wednesday.Issue 3 takes us into Oct/Nov 1977. The editorial opens up with a bit on whether or not the British SF/F game market was large enough to support a magazine like this.  They deci[...]
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Adventure Review: Frozen Wind (PFRPG) by Jonathan McAnulty from Rite Publishing

When I read the first couple of adventures of the Curse of the Golden Spear adventure trilogy set in Kaidan from Jonathan McAnulty and Rite Publishing, I was blown away. I remember the first time I saw the Oriental Adven[...]
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GUMSHOE: A System Guide for New Gamers

I'd put together this guide over on RPGGeek a while back, and forgot to cross-post it then.Below is a guide to the various lines of GUMSHOE products, arranged by date of initial publication. I've provided a brief descrip[...]
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An Overdue Introduction

Hello everyone. I think it’s about time I introduced myself, since it’s been three months since my last post here on Troll. My name’s Benedict, used in full to be less confusing with Mr. Troll himself, [...]
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Adventure Review: The Haunting of Larvik Island (4E) by Stephen Newton from Thick Skull Adventures

Though The Haunting of Larvik Island has been out since June 2011, I’m coming very late to the party. Written by Stephen Newton and published by Thick Skull Adventures, this adventure for a group of five 1st level [...]
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[Review] Gray Ranks

Gray Ranks is an indie tabletop RPG by Jason Morningstar, the same guy who brought you Fiasco.  What are you buying? Grey Ranks is a role-playing game that sees you play a group of pre-teens rebels in the Warsa[...]
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The Principalities of Glantri: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Classic D&D region sourcebook covering a Magocracy in the Mystara setting. GREATER THAN THE BORROWED PARTSThough the Red Wizards of the Forgotten Realms setting get more attention and have lasted longer,[...]
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[Review] Dragon Age RPG Set 2

In 2010, Green Ronin first released their Dragon Age RPG box, reminiscent of the old cardboard box sets released by TSR back in the early years of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. In Dragon Age RPG Set 1, we were introduce[...]
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News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12

Welcome to the gaming news roundup for the week of 20-JAN-2012! This week was “one of those” weeks with work, so I’m gleeful that it’s Friday! Yay! The debate continued this week about “D�[...]
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Thoughts on Thunderspire

As we wrapped up Thunderspire I have a few thoughts on how things went overall.MinionsWe all missed minions. It’s a little weird actually, but the one-hit wonders actually made some battles a lot of fun, especially whe[...]
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Game Review: Quantum Flux by Kieran Kowalski from 6d6 RPG

Though I don’t read much sci-fi these days, I’m still a big fan of films in the genre. Sprinkle in some horror and I’ll probably go see it if the trailer looks good enough. The golden standard is of cou[...]
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Please take advantage of me!

By Paco Garcia Jaen I have been doing my website and the podcast for a year and a half now. In this time, nearly hundreds of articles, pieces of news, reviews, adventures and podcasts have been published. All and all, &#[...]
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Book Review: The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design by Mike Selinker and Others from Open Design

Games. We all play them. It’s what makes us “gamers,” right? Whether you enjoy the occasional card, board, or roleplaying game, the one constant for me has been the “fun factor.” If I’[...]
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Game Review: Fantasy Craft by Alex Flagg, Scott Gearin, and Patrick Kapera from Crafty Games – Chapter 5

There’s only three chapters to go in Fantasy Craft from Crafty Games… Combat, Foes, and Worlds. Unfortunately between those three chapters and the index, character sheets, and so on, those last three chapters[...]
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[Review] Geasa

Geasa is an unconventional tabletop RPG. It's always a little bit of an embarrassment trying to use a standard definition for "unconventional" RPGs. Being creatures born from a very limited group of people they lack of[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for January 8–14, 2012

Happy new year, everybody! During the week of January 8–14, 2012, I reviewed four products for DriveThruRPG. Clocks and Secrets by Lyra Ambient. As the “secrets” part of the name implies, this track does a great jo[...]
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Janurary PDF items from DriveThruRPG

Here are the Janurary PDF items from DriveThruRPG.Leverage Roleplaying Game [Margaret Weis Productions] cool example of Cortex+ in actionThe Complete Book of Denizens (d20/OGL) [Inner Circle] more new monsters [...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for January 1–7, 2012

Happy new year, everybody! During the week of January 1–7, 2012, I reviewed four products for DriveThruRPG. I was especially delighted to have four new Sonic Legends tracks to review, after a long hiatus between new re[...]
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12-Sided Die: Should You Be Game for this New Webseries?

Earlier today, the team @12sideddie blasted the internet with a solicitation of their new gaming themed web series 12 Sided Die.12 Sided Die is a web series directed by Daniel Murphy and written by Curtis Fortier that is[...]
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News from Around the Net: 13-JAN-12 (Triskaidekaphobic Edition)

Welcome to the first triskaidekaphobic edition of GKR’s News frrom Around the Net for 2012… (Apparently there are three in 2012, two in 2013, and one in 2014. Since we’re on a downward trend let’s[...]
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The Emirates of Ylaruam: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Classic D&D region supplement covering a fantasy nation with an Arabian flavor. TO BEGIN...We come now to the second volume in the gazetteer series. I talked a little bit about the series and Mystara set[...]
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Tools Review: Dungeons & Dragons Virtual Table Beta

Right before the holidays, Rory Madden from Game Table Online dropped me a note wondering if I’d like to check out the D&D Virtual Table they’ve had under development for Wizards of the Coast. It’s[...]
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[Review] Imperial Mysteries for Mage: the Awakening

Archmages. In a game about being able to shape reality with your will alone, the idea of reaching this otherworldly level of power is a seriously tempting motivation. Imperial Mysteries delves into the nature of reaching[...]
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GeekOut on Gojiro, by Mark Jacobson

There are simply more topics that I would like to write about than there is time on this Earth. To that end, I’ve created GeekOut!, a column where I can express my love of something for a month, before moving on to[...]
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Nevermet Press needs your help. Between editing and producing our content, tweaking the website, and promoting and marketing our site and published projects, and sorting through all the submissions to...Visit the origina[...]
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White Dwarf Wednesday Issue 2

Welcome back to White Dwarf Wednesday.  Today I will talk about Issue #2 from Aug/Sep 1977.This is an interesting issue if for one reason alone (though there are more), the editorial.  Ian Livingstone talks abo[...]
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Tools Review: Awesome Dice Die Rollers For Your Blog

Here’s a first for Game Knight Reviews… I’m reviewing a WordPress plug-in! Last week I was contacted by Brian Wood from Awesome Dice, who asked me to take a look at a new plug-in for WP that adds a die [...]
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Game Review: The One Ring: Adventurer’s Book by Francesco Nepitello from Cubicle 7 – Part 6

The end is nigh! Well, the last part of my multi-post review of The One Ring: Adventurer’s Book from Cubicle 7 and writer Francesco Nepitello anyway… “Part 6: Fellowship Phase” deals with that par[...]
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[Review] Innovation

Innovation is a board game for 2 to 4 players.  The game, in short. The goal is the fist player to dominate a fixed number of ages, depending on the number of players or to be the first to activate a "win the game[...]
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GeekOut on Gojira (1954)

There are simply more topics that I would like to write about than there is time on this Earth. To that end, I’ve created GeekOut!, a column where I can express my love of something for a month, before moving on to[...]
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News from Around the Net: 6-JAN-12

That’s right, it’s 2012… The year we see if the Mayans were right or if they were too cheap to buy a new calendar at the office supply store. Hopefully everyone had a happy and safe New Years’ cel[...]
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The Grand Duchy of Karameikos: RPG Items I Like

WHAT IS IT?Classic D&D region supplement covering a fantasy nation with an eastern European flavor. INTRODUCTIONThe D&D Gazetteer series (GAZ) remains one of my favorite TSR product lines. I came t[...]
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Fiction Review: Stories in the Ether, Issue 1 from Nevermet Press

In an age when the eBook is gaining ground, I wonder why I don’t read more short fiction. I read plenty of fantasy and science fiction novels (usually 25-30 every year) and have even thrown in some Steampunk into t[...]
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