Author: Alex Lucard
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Tabletop Review: Dungeon Crawl Classics/Maximum Xcrawl Free RPG Day 2014
Dungeon Crawl Classics/Maximum Xcrawl Free RPG Day 2014 Publisher: Goodman Games Cost: Free! Page Count: 24 Release Date: 06/21/2014 This year, Goodman Games’ Free RPG Day offering consists of not one, but TWO adventures for lucky gamers. Dungeon Crawl Classics fans get Elzemon and the Blood Drinking Box while Xcrawl fans get Dungeons Detonation 2014.…
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Tabletop Review: The Godsfall Quick Start Rules (Free RPG Day 2014)
The Godsfall Quick Start Rules Publisher: Godsfall RPG Cost: FREE! Page Count: 20 Release Date: 06/21/2014 As there will be only one copy of The Godsfall in each Free RPG Day 2014 box sent to stores partaking in the event, it will definitely be one of the hardest, and perhaps most sought after pieces this…
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Tabletop Review: Castles & Crusades: A Druid’s Lament (Free RPG Day 2014)
Castles & Crusades: A Druid’s Lament Publisher: Troll Lord Games Cost: FREE Page Count: 10 Release Date: 06/21/2014 This year’s Free RPG Day release from Troll Lord Games is an adventure entitled A Druid’s Lament. Note that the title page calls the adventure, “The Druid’s Lament,” but the cover reads “A Druid’s Lament.” Not a…
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Tabletop Review: Call of Catthulhu Deluxe Book II: Unaussprechlichen Katzen, the Cat Herder’s Guide
Call of Catthulhu Deluxe Book II: Unaussprechlichen Katzen, the Cat Herder’s Guide Publisher: Catthulhu Cost: $14.95 Page Count: 128 Release Date: 06/12/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Call of Catthulhu is one of those games that has really taken on a life of its own. I’ll admit that, when I picked up the basic version of…
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Tabletop Review: Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: The Harbinger Foundation
Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: The Harbinger Foundation Publisher: Catalyst Game Labes Cost: FREE! Page Count: 20 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Wow, here we are with our fourth free Quick Start Rules preview of the Valiant Universe RPG. The previous two let you view the big Harbinger Wars event from the side…
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Tabletop Review: Numenera: Beyond All Worlds
Numenera: Beyond All Worlds Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $3.99 Page Count: 22 Release Date: 05/29/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Beyond All Worlds is the first published adventure for Numenera in roughly seven months. I’ll admit, as innovative, creative and fun as Numenera, adventures seem to be the system’s Achilles heel. Vortex was fine for…
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Tabletop Review: Gygax Magazine, Issue #4
Gygax Magazine #4 Publisher: TSR Cost: $8.95 (Physical)/$4.95 (PDF) Page Count: 76 Release Date: 06/10/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Gygax Magazine had a fantastic 2013. They released three top-notch issues AND won our “Best Tabletop Related Magazine” award in our 2013 Tabletop Gaming Awards. For a quarterly magazine these days, getting three of the four…
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Tabletop Review: Ambient Environments MP3 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Ambient Environments MP3 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth Publisher: Ambient Environments Length: 10 Minutes Cost: $1.99 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com As you can probably tell from the title of this ten minute MP3, The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a background track for tabletop gaming inspired by one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous stories. We cover…
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Tabletop Review: RPG Background Loops MP3: Pharaoh’s Tomb
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Bullets & Bandages
Shadowrun: Bullets & Bandages Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $4.95 Page Count: 23 Release Date: 06/02/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com It’s about time DocWagon had the spotlight thrust on it, don’t you think. I’ve played a DocWagon character back in the FASA days of Shadowrun. He was a purely defensive character and the other players…
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Tabletop Review: Atomic Robo RPG (Fate Core System)
Atomic Robo RPG (Fate Core) Publisher: Evil Hat Productions, LLC Cost: $11.99 (PDF)/$35 (Physical) Page Count: 322 Release Date: 05/23/2014 (PDF)/June 2014 (Physical) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com My favorite comic book of all time is Justice League International, which probably dates me as an old fogie. Still comics that have blend a blend of comedy…
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Tabletop Review: Castles & Crusades: Reaping Bones
Castles & Crusades: Reaping Bones Publisher: Troll Lord Games Page Count: 15 Cost: Free to Kickstarter Backers and ReaperCon Attendees Release Date: 04/24/2014 (Physical ReaperCon Version)/05/31/2014 (Kickstarter Digital Version) Get it Here: You Can’t Reaping Bones was originally a convention exclusive to those that attended Reaper Miniatures ReaperCon 2014 earlier this year. However, Kickstarter backers…
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Tabletop Review: Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: Generation Zero
Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: Generation Zero Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: FREE Page Count: 20 Release Date: 05/31/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com As promised, Catalyst Game Labs has been releasing free Quick Start Rules for their upcoming Valiant Universe RPG on a clockwork basis. Timeliness is a rare thing in the…
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Tabletop Review: D-Infinity Volume #6: The Mythos
D-Infinity Volume #6: The Mythos Publisher: Skirmisher Publishing LLC Cost: $6.99 Page Count: 84 Release Date: 05/21/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com It’s hard to find a regularly published gaming magazine these days. The best ones, in terms of quality, like The Unspeakable Oath and Gygax Magazine, are published nowhere near the quarterly schedule promised. Other…
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Tabletop Review: Plague of the Dread Acolyte (Tunnels & Trolls)
Plague of the Dread Acolyte (Tunnels & Trolls) Publisher: Trollish Delver Games Cost: $1.01 Page Count: 9 Release Date: 05/26/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com In early 2013, I reviewed a wonderful release for Tunnels & Trolls entitled The Trollmanac. It contained odds and ends for the T&T system, and it went on to be a…
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Book Review: Delta Green: Tales From Failed Anatomies (Call of Cthulhu)
Delta Green: Tales From Failed Anatomies (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Arc Dream Publishing Cost: $9.99 (Ebook) Page Count: 286 Release Date: 05/19/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Tales From Failed Anatomies is the second Kickstarter Arc Dream Publishing has done for their (Originally Pagan Publishing’s) Delta Green – a modern setting for Call of Cthulhu. The…
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Tabletop Review: Hoplite
Hoplite Publisher: GMT Games Cost: $75 ($61.19 on Amazon) Release Date: 04/15/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com Hoplite is the fifteenth is GMT Games’ “Great Battles of History” Series. This however, was the first exposure to the GBoH series for any of us here at Diehard GameFAN. I was surprised by this considering how many of…
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Stolen Souls
Shadowrun: Stolen Souls Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $24.99 (PDF)/$44.99 (Physical) Page Count: 202 Release Date: 05/14/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Throughout Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, we saw hints and teases that something wasn’t right with FastJack, and perhaps a few other major players in the Sixth World, but it wasn’t until Storm Front where we…
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Tabletop Review: Numenera: Character Options
Numenera: Character Options Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $9.99 Page Count: 98 Release Date: 05/21/2014 Get it here: DriveThruRPG.com Numenera: Character Options opens with an unusual question: “Can character creation be fun?” I was taken aback by that because honestly, character creation is one of my favorite parts of playing a tabletop RPG. If the…
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Tabletop Review: Pirates & Dragons
Pirates & Dragons (Renaissance) Publisher: Cakebread and Walton Cost: $24.99 (PDF) Page Count: 348 Release Date: 04/17/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Hey look! I’m FINALLY getting around to review it. What can I say – April and May have been busy month for me reviewing-wise. Still, I finally got a chance to look finish my…