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Author: Alex Lucard

  • Interview with Greg Tito, Communications Manager for Dungeons & Dragons about Elemental Evil and Princes of the Apocalypse

    We are fast approaching the release of the next campaign for Dungeons & Dragons, fifth edition. Princes of the Apocalypse officially hits stores on April 7th and to celebrate, we’ve made it Elemental Evil week here at Diehard GameFAN. For the next four days we’ll be doing an interview with one of the companies behind…

  • Book Review: Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Legends: Blood in the Water

    Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Legends: Blood in the Water Publisher: Privateer Press Cost: $1.99 Page Count: 49 Release Date: 3/18/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m not really a fan of Warmachine, Hordes or Iron Kingdoms. The miniatures, I mean. I just don’t find them aesthetically pleasing (Only the Gatormen look remotely fun to paint/play with) and…

  • Tabletop Review: Call of Cthulhu: Sense Impacts

    Call of Cthulhu: Sense Impacts Publisher: Chaosium Cost: $15.95 Tracks: 13 Release Date: 03/16/2015 Get it Here: Chaosium.com I don’t review a lot of RPG soundtracks, but those that I have done have all been ones I would use with Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu game. Fans of Horror on the Orient Express might want to…

  • Tabletop Review: Warhammer: The End Times V: Archaon

    Warhammer: The End Times V: Archaon Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $85 (Hardcover/$75 (Softcover)/$50.99 (Digital) Page Count: Special (See Below) Release Date: 03/14/2015 Get it Here: Gamesworkshop.com …and so Warhammer, Eighth Edition comes to a close. Although the planet went kablooey and pretty much every faction went extinct, there is still hope that some races and…

  • Tabletop Review: The Lord of the End Times (Warhammer: The End Times)

    The Lord of the End Times (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $30.00 (Hardcover)/$15.99 (Ebook) Page Count: 411 Pages Release Date: 03/20/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library …and so it ends. Not just Warhammer, Eighth Edition mind you, but all of Warhammer‘s history and characters. Of course. Warhammer, Ninth Edition will be…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #59 (Warhammer 40,000/Warhammer: the End Times)

    White Dwarf, Issue #59 (Warhammer 40,000/Warhammer: the End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $4 Page Count: 32 Release Date 03/14/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library (or your local Games Workshop Store) Well, The End Times Book V: Archaon and its accompanying novel, The Lord of the End Times came out Saturday, and like most…

  • Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels

    The Scarlet Gospels Publisher: St. Martins’ Press Cost: $19.88 (Hardcover)/$12.99 (Kindle) Page Count: 368 Release Date: 05/19/2015 Get it Here: Amazon.com I’ve always been a huge fan of Clive Barker’s writing, comics and movies. Chief amongst them all has been Hellraiser. I loved the first two movies and even some of the bad ones have…

  • Tabletop Review: White Dwarf, Issue #58

    White Dwarf, Issue #58 Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 Page Count: 32 Release Date: 03/07/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library (Or your local Games Workshop store) It’s been a while since I’ve picked up an issue of White Dwarf. Thanquol took a lot of wind out of my sails for Warhammer Fantasy. I’d already…

  • Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Through the Ages (Call of Cthulhu)

    Cthulhu Through the Ages (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Cost: $7.47 (Free to Seventh Edition Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter Backers) Page Count: 75 Release Date: 02/26/2015 Get it Here: Chaosium.com So this is a cute little PDF. Cthulhu Through the Ages is essentially a primer/sampler of multiple settings for Call of Cthulhu. Now the seven…

  • Book Review: The Siege of Naggarond (Warhammer: The End Times)

    The Siege of Naggarond (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $4.99 Page Count: 35 Release Date: 02/27/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Okay, at least The Seige of Naggarond is a better deal than yesterday’s waste of everything, Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers. Still, it’s odd that Marienburg’s Stand was thirty-two pages long…

  • Book Review: Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers (Warhammer: The End Times)

    Gotrek & Felix: Rememberers (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $1.99 ($15.49 as part of the bundle) Page Count: 6 Release Date: 2/26/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Okay, remember the joke I made in yesterday’s release, The Bride of Khaine where I noticed the stories are getting shorter and more expensive…

  • Book Review: The Bride of Khaine (Warhammer: The End Times)

    Bride of Khaine (Warhammer; The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $3.99 ($15.49 as part of the Quick Reads Subscription Bundle) Page Count: 21 Release Date: 02/25/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Out of all the titles for Warhammer; The End Times Quick Reads Subscription, The Bride of Khaine the one I was most…

  • Book Review: Marienburg’s Stand (Warhammer: The End Times)

    Marienburg’s Stand (Warhammer: The End Times) Cost: $3.99 ($15.49 as part of the Warhammer: The End Times Quick Reads Subscription) Page Count: 32 Release Date: 02/24/2015 Get it Here; The Black Library Marienburg’s Stand is the second of the five short stories released for Warhammer: The End Times this week. This story is a prequel…

  • Book Review: With Ice and Sword (Warhammer: The End Times)

    With Ice and Sword (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Cost: $4.99 ($15.49 as part of the Quick Reads Subscription) Page Count: 50 Release Date: 2/23/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library Today marks the first of five “Quick Reads” for Warhammer: The End Times. Each day this week there will be a short…

  • Unboxing the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter!

    Back in October of 2013, I was one of the early bird backers of the second Reaper Bones Kickstarter. This crowdfunding effort raised over three million dollars and had nearly fifteen thousand people back it. Early this month, Reaper began to ship the Kickstarter rewards and on Feburary 12th mine arrived, right as I was…

  • Miniature Review: Swamp Thing (Batman Miniature Game)

    Swamp Thing Cost: 20.66€ ($23.38 USD) Release Date: February 2015 Get it Her: KnightModels.com “The swamp is my world. It is WHO I am. It is WHAT I am. I was once a man. I KNOW the evil men do. Do not bring your evil here. I warn you. Beware the wrath of…Swamp Thing!” I…

  • Tabletop Review: Death in the Treklant (Castles & Crusades)

    Death in the Treklant (Castles & Crusades) Publisher: Troll Lord Games Cost: $6.99 Page Count: 81 Release Date: 02/05/2015 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Back in December I did a feature/unboxing on the leather-bound copies of Castles & Crusades‘ Player’s Handbook and Monsters & Treasure. The unboxing included many of the Kickstarter extras from crowdfunding those…

  • Miniature Review: Stephen Amell/Arrow (Batman Miniature Game)

    Arrow (Stephen Amell Version) Cost: 14.88€ ($17 USD) Release Date: February 2015 Get it Here: Knight Models In my younger days. I used to enjoy Heroclix, but I eventually grew out of that game. Even though I still play Robotech RPG Tactics, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K and paint Reaper Miniatures, I was still missing a…

  • The Secrets of Cats: Animals & Threats Kickstarter is Now Live! (FATE Core System)

    5:45am on a Sunday is not the best time for a Kickstarter to launch. Generally you want one of these to hit on a Weekday morning. However, The Secrets of Cats: Animals & Threats is no normal Kickstarter. It’s the sequel to the original The Secrets of Cats for the Fate Core system which won…

  • Review: Thanquol (Warhammer: The End Times)

    Thanquol (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Page Count: Special (See Below) Cost: $74.25 (Hardcover)/$39.99 (ebook) Release Date: 01/17/2015 Get it Here: GamesWorkshop.com So this is interesting. Unlike the previous three End Times releases, Thanquol did not sell out right away and you can still get the hardcover two weeks after its release date.…