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  • Tabletop Review: Monsters of Legend

    Monsters of Legend Publisher: Mongoose Publishering Pages: 124 Cost: $19.99 ($11.99 at DrivethruRPG.com) Release Date: 12/1/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRpg.Com If you read my previous review of Legend, the FRPG from Mongoose Publishing, you may recall that one of my primary concerns with the game as released was the lack of any sort of information…

  • Tabletop Review – So What’s For Sale, Anyway? II

    So What’s For Sale, Anyway? II Publisher: Raging Swan Press Pages: 24 (16 game content) Cost: $3.99 Release Date: 09/20/2011 Get it here: DriveThruRPG Raging Swan Press are back with a follow on to their So What’s For Sale, Anyway? Pathfinder sourcebook, entitled So What’s For Sale, Anyway? II. In a nutshell, what this book…

  • Tabletop Review: So What’s For Sale, Anyway?

    So What’s For Sale, Anyway? Publisher: Raging Swan Press Pages: 26 (19 game content) Cost: $3.99 Release Date: 01/08/11 Get it here: DriveThruRPG Hey, GMs – how many times has THIS happened to you? You have an adventure in progress, and the party reaches the next town – instead of resting, or going to the…

  • Tabletop Review: Dead Things

    Dead Things (Zombie Horror Mini Board Game) Publisher: DCS Pages: 10 (4 game content) Cost: $2.00 Release Date: 22/12/11 Get it here: DriveThruRPG Zombies. We know them – we love them, and try as we might, we can’t escape them. Movies, TV, comics, books, video games, board games, CCGs – the undead menace is everywhere.…

  • Tabletop Review: Grimtooth’s Traps

    Grimtooth’s Traps Publisher: Flying Buffalo Release Date: 9/13/2011 Page Count: 66 Price: $4.95 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com It was back in 1981 when a Flying Buffalo first exposed the diabolic Grimtooth to the world. Since his inception, Grimtooth has given us eight books of fiendish and devilish traps along with devices to maim, dismember, and…

  • Tabletop Review: Carcosa

    Carcosa Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Pages: 275 Cost: $21.25 Release Date: 12/14/2011 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com Violence is only notable in RPGs when it is either absent or overwhelming. The threshold for sex being notable is lower, but not so much as it was pre-Vampire: the Masquerade. When I first encountered the name…

  • Tabletop Review: Quick World Series 12-17 for Traveller

    We look at Megara, Chennai, Hiallt, Vasynov, Serapis and Tal’Kalares. Man, Gypsy Knight Games has been busy!

  • Tabletop Review: Homicidal Transients

    Homicidal Transients Publisher: Left Of The Moon Games Pages: 13 Cost: $2.00/$6.00 Bundle (ePub, mobi and PDF formats) Release Date: 12/19/11 Get it here: DriveThruRPG.com What can I say about a game called Homicidal Transients, really? It’s a game that puts you in the role of, well, a homicidal transient – complete with all of…

  • Tabletop Review: #30 Haunts for Kaidan (Pathfinder)

    #30 Haunts For Kaidan Publisher: Rite Publishing Pages: 28 Cost: $3.99 Release Date: 01/12/2011 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com #30 Haunts For Kaidan is not only the newest entry in Rite Publishing’s “#30 Haunts For…” series, but it’s also the newest release for the Kaidan campaign setting. If you’re new to Kaidan, think Ravenloft meets Kara-Tur…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions – Hard Target

    Shadowrun Missions: Hard Target Publisher: Catalyst Games Labs Pages: 32 Cost: $3.95 Release Date: 01/11/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Shadowrun Missions are a series of slightly connected adventures for the budget conscious tabletop gamer. This “season,” the set of missions are set in Seattle. So far we’ve see runners damage a politician’s career, help smuggle…

  • Miniatures Review: Biohazard Heads

    Biohazard Heads Manufacturer: Maxmini Scale: Heroic 28mm Material: Resin Price: $7.91 for ten heads Get It Here: Maxmini The first Chaos Space Marine that I found interesting, the Death Guard are one of the most intriguing Warhammer 40k factions. Starting life as stalwart, hearty drop troops, the post-Horus Heresy Death Guard are bloated with pestilence…

  • Miniatures Review: Gothic Backpacks

    Gothic Backpacks Manufacturer: Maxmini Scale: Heroic 28mm Material: Resin Price: $7.91 for 6 backpacks Get Them Here: Maxmini In the last few years, there has been a proliferation of boutique conversion bitz. Primarily intended for Warhammer 40k Space Marines and Imperial Guard, a number of manufacturers make quality resin heads and guns ripe for converting.…

  • Miniatures Review: Steam Knight Helmets

    Steam Knight Helmets Manufacturer: Maxmini Scale: Heroic 28mm Material: Resin Price: $7.46 for 10 heads Get Them Here: Maxmini For all the vitriol people spew towards Games Workshop, their Space Marine models are a perfect canvas for science fiction conversions. The “Space Marine” archetype was not created by Games Workshop, but they have certainly done…

  • Tabletop Review: Legend

    Legend Publisher: Mongoose Publishering Pages: 242 Cost: $19.99 ($1 at DrivethruRPG.com) Release Date: 12/2/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRpg.Com Legend is the latest game from Mongoose Publishing, released towards the end of 2011, and just beginning to build up a head of steam. The game touts itself as a generic fantasy role playing game (FRPG), and…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Street Legends Supplemental

    Shadowrun: Street Legends Supplemental Publisher: Catalyst Games Labs Pages: 47 Cost: $7.95 Release Date: 01/02/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Street Legends Supplemental is the first Shadowrun release of 2012. It’s a follow up to last year’s Street Legends. Although this forty-seven page supplement follows the same format as the first book bearing the Street Legends…

  • Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Corporate Intrigue

    Shadowrun: Corporate Intrigue Publisher: Catalyst Games Labs Pages: 150 Cost: $24.99 ($18.00 for .pdf format) Release Date: 12/27/2011 Get It Here: DrivethruRPG.com 2011 was a great year for Shadowrun. We gave it our “2011 RPG of the Year” award after all. The adventures especially have been great. Whether it was the short but excellently done…

  • Tabletop Review: Supplement 12: Dynasty (Traveller)

    Traveller: Supplement 12: Dynasty Publisher: Mongoose Publishing Pages: 96 Price: $24.99 ($14.99 PDF) Release Date: 12/12/2011 Get it here: DriveThru RPG One of the strengths of a long-running RPG series is that, over time, rules that were only briefly covered or considered peripheral in the core are eventually taken aside and given real consideration. In…

  • Tabletop Review: The Cursed Chateau

    The Cursed Chateau Publisher: Grognardia Games Pages: 49 Cost: $3.99 Release Date: 12/12/2009 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Usually we only get review copies of newly released titles here at Diehard GameFAN, so I was a bit surprised to see a code for The Cursed Chateau come into my inbox a week or so ago. After…

  • Tabletop Review: Supplement 11: Animal Encounters (Traveller)

    Traveller: Supplement 11: Animal Encounters Publisher: Mongoose Publishing Pages: 96 Price: $24.99 ($14.99 PDF) Release Date: 07/19/2011 Get it here: DriveThru RPG Supplement 11 is a very traditional entry into the Traveller supplement line: take an element that exists in the core rules in a rudimentary form, and expand upon it. In this case, it…

  • Tabletop Review: The Waking Dead (All Flesh Must Be Eaten)

    All Flesh Must Be Eaten: The Waking Dead Publisher: Eden Studios Pages: 34 Cost: FREE! Release Date: 12/19/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Even though I feel the whole zombie craze has been played out for several years now, All Flesh Must Be Eaten holds a special place in my heart as it’s the first system…