Category: Tabletop Gaming
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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…
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Tabletop Review Shadows of Esteren: The Monastery of Tuath
Shadows of Esteren: The Monastery of Tuath Publisher: Studio 2 Publishing/Agate Éditions Cost: $10 (PDF)/$30 (Physical)/$45 Special Edition Page Count: 50 Release Date: 05/12/2014 (KIckstarter Backers Only)TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: TBD (Currently Only Available to Kickstarter Backers) The Monastery of Tuath is the fourth release for the critically-acclaimed Shadows of Esteren series. Each…
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Tabletop Review: Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: Bloodshot
Valiant Universe RPG QSR Supplemental – Harbinger Wars: Bloodshot Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: FREE Page Count: 20 Release Date: 05/17/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com At the end of April, Catalyst Game Labs released the first of many free Quick Start rules sets for their upcoming Valiant Universe RPG. I reviewed it two weeks ago…
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Tabletop Review: A Single, Small Cut (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)
A Single, Small Cut (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Cost: $2.00 Page Count: 11 Release Date: 05/09/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com A Single, Small Cut is an adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess by author Michael Curtis, who I normally associate with Dungeon Crawl Classics. He’s written some…
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Tabletop Review: The Arkham Gazette, Issue 2: Innsmouth (Call of Cthulhu)
The Arkham Gazette, Issue 2: Innsmouth Publisher: Sentinel Hill Press Cost: FREE Page Count: 83 Release Date: 05/08/2014 Get it Here: Sentinel Hill Press Back in November of 2013, I stumbled across a new Call of Cthulhu gaming periodical entitled The Arkham Gazette. Not only was it free, but it was one of the best…
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Tabletop Review: Ninth World Assassins (Numenera)
Ninth World Assassins Publisher: Knowledge of the Ninth Page Count: 103 + Special (See Below) Cost: $5.00 Release Date: 04/03/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m always a little worried with licensed third party releases on the tabletop market. Some companies tend to have really good product control of third party releases, like Chaosium. Others tend…
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Book Review: The Herald: The Sundering, Book VI
The Herald: The Sundering, Book VI Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 336 Pages Cost: $7.99 (Kindle)/$27.95 (MSRP for Hardcover)/$17.68 (Amazon Hardcover Price) Release Date: 06/03/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com Well here we are. After six books and four adventures, The Sundering is completed as The Forgotten Realms have officially moved from Dungeons &…
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Tabletop Review: Mummy: The Curse: Cursed Necropolis: D.C. (World of Darkness)
Mummy: The Curse: Cursed Necropolis: D.C. (World of Darkness) Publisher: Onyx Press Publishing/White Wolf Publishing Cost: Free to Kickstarter Backers/ TBD (Everyone Else) Page Count: 119 Release Date: 04/30/2014 (Kickstarter Backers)/ TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com (Eventually. Link does not work at time of review) Back in January of 2013, 1,767 people backed…
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Tabletop Review: Achtung! Cthulhu Keeper’s Guide to the Secret War (Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds)
The Keeper’s Guide for all your WWII Cthulhu needs.
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Tabletop Review: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Sins of the Saviors Adventure Deck
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Sins of the Saviors Adventure Deck Publisher: Paizo Cost: $19.99 ($15.47 on Amazon.com) Get it Here: Amazon.com So here we are with the penultimate deck for theRise of the Runelords game. If you’re new to the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, now that Sins of the Savior is the fifth deck for…
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Tabletop Review: Tunnels & Trolls: Adventurers’ Compendium
Tunnels & Trolls: Adventurers’ Compendium Publisher: Flying Buffalo Games Cost: $4.95 (Digital)/$14.94 (Physical)/Free (to Kickstarter Backers) Page Count: 92 Release Date: 05/01/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Although the deluxe version of Tunnels and Trolls is nearly a year late (for very understandable reasons), Flying Buffalo Games has done a great job of putting out the…