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Category: Tabletop Gaming

  • Tabletop Review: Grimtooth’s Traps Too

    Grimtooth’s Traps Too Publisher: Flying Buffalo Games Page Count: 98 Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 04/05/2014 (PDF)/1982 (original first edition physical copy) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com So this is interesting. The Grimtooth’s Traps series has been around since 1981. Each book contains dozens of traps useable for whatever gaming system you prefer. Sure, being a systemless…

  • Tabletop Review: Darkfast Classic Fantasy Advanced Classes: Ducks (Labyrinth Lord)

    Darkfast Classic Fantasy Advanced Classes: Ducks (Labyrinth Lord) Publisher: Okumarts Games Page Count: 9 Cost: $2.50 Release Date: 04/04/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com When you’re a reviewer, sometime a piece so weird comes up that you have to review it. In this case it is Ducks, a supplement for Labyrinth Lord by Okumarts Games. Labyrinth…

  • Tabletop Review: Accursed: Half-Light (Savage Worlds)

    Accursed: Half-Light (Savage Worlds) Publisher: Mellior Via Cost: $1.25 Page Count: 4 Release Date: 04/10/2014 Get it Here; DriveThruRPG.com Half-Light is the latest adventure for the Accursed setting for Savage Worlds which was launched in late 2013. This short little two page adventure (the other pages are the cover and legal mumbo jumbo) can be…

  • Tabletop Review: Achtung! Cthulhu Investigator’s Guide to the Secret War (Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds)

    World War II Cthulhu RPG action for players

  • Tabletop Review: Injecting the Weird (Numenera)

    Injecting the Weird (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $4.99 Page Count: 22 Release Date: 03/26/2014 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com From the title, I assumed that Injecting the Weird would actually be a crossover of sorts with Monte Cook Games’ upcoming release The Strange, similar to how In Strange Aeons was a guide on how…

  • Tabletop Review: DC Comics Deck Building Game: Heroes Unite

    DC Comics Deck Building Game: Heroes Unite Publisher: Cryptozoic Games Cost: $40 Release Date: 02/26/2014 Get it Here: Cryptozoic Games Back in late 2012, Cryptozoic Games released a deck-building game based on the New 52 Universe at Dc Comics. It was well received although I myself didn’t pick it up until my birthday in August…

  • Tabletop Review: The Doom That Came to Atlantic City

    The Doom That Came to Atlantic City Publisher: Cryptozoic Games Cost: $75 Release Date: 04/02/2014 Get it Here: Cryptozoic Games I can’t think of a board game with a more turbulent and dramatic history than The Doom That Came to Atlantic City. At worst, it highlights the dangers of crowdfunding and how easy it is…

  • Tabletop Review: Fighting Fire: Ernie Gygax Benefit Adventure

    Fighting Fire: Ernie Gygax Benefit Adventure Publisher: Creative Mountain Games Cost: $7.50 Page Count: 34 Release Date: 03/14/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Ernest Gary Gygax Junior did not have a good 2013. At the beginning of the year his home and many of his worldly possessions burned down. Since then, his brother Luke has set…

  • Book Review: The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V (Dungeons & Dragons)

    The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Cost: $27.95 (Hardcover)/$18.39 (Hardcover at Amazon)/$15.37 (Kindle)/$7.19 (Paperback) Page Count: 304 Release Date: 04/01/2014 (Hardcover and Kindle)/10/7/1014 (Paperback) Get it Here: Amazon.com It’s hard to believe that this is the penultimate book in the Sundering series that will take the Forgotten Realms from Fourth…

  • Tabletop Review: Dungeon Crawl Classics #81: The One Who Watches From Below

    Dungeon Crawl Classics #81: The One Who Watches From Below Publisher: Goodman Games Cost: $9.99 (Physical)/$6.99 (PDF) Page Count: 28 Release Date: 3/14/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com So, a little back story on this one before we begin. Back on Free RPG Day 2012, Goodman Games gave us an excellent set of two adventures if…

  • Tabletop Review: Pathfinder Adventure Path: Mummy’s Mask Player’s Guide

    Pathfinder Adventure Path: Mummy’s Mask Player’s Guide Publisher: Paizo Cost: FREE Page Count: 14 Release Date: 03/06/2014 Get it Here: Paizo.com I generally eschew the Pathfinder Adventure Path series. I don’t really think the stories in this collections are very compelling and the pieces often feel a little too high on the roll-playing rather than…

  • Tabletop Review: Adventure Quarterly, Issue #5 (Pathfinder)

    Adventure Quarterly #5 Publisher: Rite Publishing Cost: $9.99 (PDF)/$19.99 (Physical) Page Count: 73 Release Date: 03/13/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Although the days of high quality monthly tabletop RPG magazine have long since passed on, we do seem to be having a nice resurgence of quarterly magazines with top notch content…even if the magazines aren’t…

  • Tabletop Review: Beasts & Barbarians: The Dread Shard (Savage Worlds)

    Beasts & Barbarians: The Dread Shard (Savage Worlds) Publisher: Gramel/Studio 2 Publishing Page Count: 16 Cost: $1.99 Release Date: 03/13/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Beast & Barbarians is a campaign setting for Savage Worlds, so know that you’ll need the core books (DriveThruRPG has a great bundle for those that are interested) in addition to…

  • Tabletop Review: Ravenloft: Forbidden Lore (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition)

    Ravenloft: Forbidden Lore (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 288 Cost: $9.99 (Originally $25) Release Date: 03/11/2014 (Originally 1992) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com I’m really glad to see Forbidden Lore up on DNDclassics.com, as I wasn’t sure how they were going to pull this off. You…

  • Tabletop Review: Fleet: Arctic Bounty

    Fleet: Arctic Bounty Publisher: Gryphon Games Cost: $24.99 Release Date: March, 2013 Get it Here: www.eaglegames.net The original Fleet was one of those huge Kickstarter successes. It might not look it at first when you see it only raised $37,860, but you have to remember that it was only looking for $6,000 at first AND…

  • Tabletop Review: Scenic Dunnsmouth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)

    Scenic Dunnsmouth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Cost: $9.99 Page Count: 114 Release Date: 03/05/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Some published adventures are more fun for the DM than for the players. Now I don’t mean adventures where the DM actively tries to murder all the PCs and has…

  • Tabletop Review: The Many Deaths of Edward Bigsby (Trail of Cthulhu)

    The Many Deaths of Edward Bigsby (Trail of Cthulhu) Publisher: Innsmouth House Press/Yog-Sototh.com Cost: $6.95 (DriveThruRPG.com)/£3.99 (Yog-Sothoth.com) Page Count: 34 Release Date: 02/25/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com/YogSothoth.com For those not in the know, Yog-Sothoth.com is one of the best pages on the Internet for all things related to Call of Cthulhu gaming. This includes other…

  • Tabletop Review: Forgive Us (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)

    Forgive Us (Lamentations of the Flame Princess Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Cost: $7.25 (PDF) Page Count: 59 between two PDFs (See Below) Release Date: 03/05/2014 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Forgive Us is a collection of three adventures for Lamentations of the Flame Princess. There is one fully fleshed out adventure with a map…

  • Book Review: Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, Book I (Dungeons & Dragons)

    R.A. Salvatore’s latest brings Drizzt and crew into the new Forgotten Realms

  • Tabletop Review: Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition)

    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 248 Pages across two books Cost: $9.99 Release Date: 03/04/2014 (Originally 1989) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Wow. I can’t express how happy I am to have the Spelljammer: Adventures in Space boxed set once again available to the…