Category: Tabletop Gaming
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Gun H(e)aven 3
Shadowrun: Gun H(e)aven 3 Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.95 Page Count: 38 Release Date: 12/14/2013 Get it Here: DriveThrurpg.com Oh, Shadowrun. Leave it to you to release two supplements the very day I go on vacation for a week without any internet. So these reviews are later than I am comfortable with and then…
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Tabletop Review: Deadlands Noir: The Case of the Jumbo Shrimp (Savage Worlds)
Another game that focuses on the negative side of cannibal cults. Keep an open mind people!
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Tabletop Review: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords: The Hook Mountain Massacre Adventure Deck
I am sorry that you are alone on Christmas reading about a card game where you can pretend to do interesting things. We’ll get through this together.
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Tabletop Review: Gygax Magazine, Issue #3
Gygax Magazine, Issue #3 Publisher: TSR, Inc Cost: $8.95 Page Count: 68 Release Date: 12/02/2013 Get it Here: Gygaxmagazine.com for a physical copy (and DriveThruRPG.com for a digital copy eventually…) Well, this was a nice surprise to get in the mail. With the previous two issues of Gygax Magazine, I didn’t get my issue until…
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Tabletop Review: Secrets of Tibet (Call of Cthulhu)
Secrets of Tibet (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Chaosium Cost: $11.53 (Digital)/$20.96 (Physical) Page Count: 172 Release Date: 11/27/2013 (Digital)/TBD (Physical) Get it Here: Chaosium.com Secrets of Tibet is the latest is the “Secrets” set of campaign settings that Chaosium puts out for its Call of Cthulhu line. They did kind of a stealth release of…
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Tabletop Review: Cypher Collection I (Numenera)
Cypher Collection I (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 10 Release Date: 12/2/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sometimes a review practically writes itself, like when you cover a set of random tables, a name generator or a supplemental full of some specific type of equipment like guns or cyberware. Such is the…
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Tabletop Review: Legacy of the Crystal Shard (Dungeons & Dragons)
Legacy of the Crystal Shard (Dungeons & Dragons) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: Special (See below Cost: $34.95 ($22.10 at Amazon.com) Release Date: 11/19/2013 Get it Here: Amazon.com Legacy of the Crystal Shard is the second Sundering adventure which helps take the world’s oldest role-playing game franchise from Fourth Edition into D&D Next,…
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Tabletop Review: No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression
No Security: Horror Scenarios in the Great Depression Publisher: Hebanon Games Cost: $20.00 Page Count: 148 Release Date: 11/30/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com MAGICAL REVIEW UPDATE TIME GO! So, in the hours since this went live a few things have happened. First, you’ll notice the link under the header no longer works. That’s because the…
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Tabletop Review: The Owlglass (Call of Cthulhu)
The Owlglass (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Golden Goblin Press Page Count: 10 Cost: Free (to Kickstarter backers)/$500 (everyone else) Release Date: 11/25/2013 Get it Here: Golden Goblin press The Owlglass is a bonus scenario for anyone who pledged $35 dollars or more on Kickstarter to the Island of Ignorance, by Golden Goblin Press. There were…
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Tabletop Review: Transylvanian Adventures (Dungeon Crawl Classics)
Transylvanian Adventures (Dungeon Crawl Classics) Publisher: Land of Phantoms Cost: $12.99 Page Count: 302 Release Date: 10/30/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Back in July I reviewed an adventure entitled The Winter Home for the Dungeon Crawl Classics system. This adventure, set in a quasi-homage to 1950/60s Hammer Horror films, was for an upcoming campaign setting…
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Tabletop Review: Ravenloft: Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition)
Ravenloft: Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $9.99(Originally $10.95) Page Count: 99 Release Date: 11/19/2013 (Originally 1991) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires is not only my favorite supplement for Ravenloft, but it just might be my favorite for…
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Book Review: The Adversary: The Sundering Book III (Dungeons & Dragons)
The Adversary: The Sundering Book III (Dungeons & Dragons) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 432 Cost: $27.95 (Physical)/15.37 (Kindle)/$14.99 (Audio) Release Date: 12/2/2013 (Hardcover/Kindle)/5/6/2014 (Paperback) Get it Here: Amazon.com The Adversary is the third in the six book series known as The Sundering, which phases Dungeons & Dragons from the “love it or…
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Book Review: The Paradox Room (The Strange)
The Paradox Room (The Strange) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $2.99/Free (See below) Page Count: 55 Release Date: 11/19/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com By the time this review goes live, there will be less than twenty-four hours until the Kickstarter for Monte Cook’s newest RPG, The Strange ends. At the time of writing, the Kickstarter…
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Tabletop Review: Ravenloft: Darklords (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition)
Ravenloft: Darklords (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $9.99 (Originally $10.95) Page Count: 98 Release Date: 11/12/2013 (Originally 1991) Get it Here: DNDCLassics.com As you can tell from the RR1 coding, Darklords was the first supplement release for TSR’s Ravenloft campaign setting. There had been an adventure…
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Tabletop Review: The Arkham Gazette, Issue 1 (Call of Cthulhu)
The Arkham Gazette, Issue 1 Publisher: Sentinel Hill Press Cost: FREE! Page Count: 58 Release Date: 11/11/2013 Get it Here: Sentinel Hill Press I love gaming magazines. It’s a silly concept in this day and age of everything being online, but I grew up with White Wolf Magazine, subscriptions to Dungeon and Dragon and I…
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Tabletop Review: Quests of Shadowgate
Quests of Shadowgate Publisher: Zojoi Games Cost: Special (See Review) Release Date: 11/02/2013 Get it Here: Special (See Review) Ah, Shadowgate. Whether you played it on an Apple IIe, an early PC via floppy discs or the venerable 8-Bit NES, everyone seems to love that game. 2012 was the 25th anniversary of its original release,…
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Tabletop Review: Kaijudo: Invasion Earth – Choten’s Army Competive Deck
Who’s ready to get corrupted?
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Tabletop Review: The Devil’s Spine (Numenera)
The Devil’s Spine (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Page Count: 98 Cost: $24.99 ($15.95 at Amazon for the Physical, $9.99 at DriveThruRPG for the PDF) Release Date: 10/23/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com The Devil’s Spine is the first adventure collection released for Numenera which was released earlier this year. I’ve been a huge fan of…
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Tabletop Review: RISK: Plants vs. Zombies Collector’s Edition
Anyone who knows me to one degree or another knows I’m a fan of Plants vs. Zombies. I’ve done everything, Achievement-wise, one can do with both the Steam version and the Xbox Live Arcade version of the game, I own the Android release, and I even wrote up a little news blurb about the “Stop…
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Tabletop Review: Horror Stories From the Red Room (Call of Cthulhu)
Call of Cthulhu: Horror Stories From the Red Room Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 108 Cost: $10.97 (PDF)/$19.95 (Physical) Release Date: 10/24/2013 Get it Here: PDF/Physical Chaosium Monographs are pieces that are largely edited and laid out by the author(s) in question rather than by the actual employees of the publisher. Because it is generally very…