Category: Tabletop Gaming
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Tabletop Review: Children of the Storm (Call of Cthulhu)
Children of the Storm Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 80 Cost: $8.22 Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sometimes a supplement or campaign setting comes along that is so elegant and ingenious that you have to wonder how no one had thought of it before now. Children of the Storm is just such a book.…
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Parabotany
Shadowrun: Parabotany Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $7.99 Page Count: 51 Release Date: 04/16/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Too often Shadowrunner players and GMs alike focus on two things: A run itself or a city. Many opportunities to really get to know a location, be it flora, fauna or even a simply layout are often…
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Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Invictus Companion (Call of Cthulhu)
Cthulhu Invictus Companion Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 68 Cost: $7.12 Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get it Here DrivethruRPG.com Call of Cthulhu has many different settings. The primary time period has always been the 1920s, but there are a lot of modern and Victorian era supplements as well, including the recently updated and re-released Cthulhu By Gaslight.…
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Tabletop Review: Call of Cthulhu Quick Start Rules
Call of Cthulhu Quick Start Rules Publisher: Chaosium Page Count: 22 Cost: 75 Cents Release Date: 04/12/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I love Call of Cthulhu. Along with Shadowrun and Vampire: The Masquerade, it’s made up my holy trinity of RPGS since I was a child. I moved away from tabletop gaming for a while,…
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Tabletop Review: Battlemap: Bowels of the Mountain
Battlemap: Bowels of the Mountain Publisher: Lord Zsezse Works Pages: 29 Size: 113.93 MB Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 03/12/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com This map set from Lord Zsezse Works is a layered map of a mountain in more ways than one. The PDFs have a grid layer that can be turned on and off…
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Tabletop Review: Battlemap: Western Castle Ruins
Battlemap: Western Castle Ruins Publisher: RedBrick Pages: 61 Size: 54.1 MB Cost: $2.99 Release Date: 3/18/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com This battlemap from RedBrick is a 30″ square map of a small castle ruins and a small dungeon below. The large PDF file contains two copies of both maps, one with square 1″ to 5′…
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Tabletop Review: The Tome of Manly Things (Pathfinder)
The Tome of Manly Things (Pathfinder) Publisher: Little Red Goblin Games Author: Little Red Goblin Games Page Count: 8 Release Date: 4/1/2012 Cost: FREE (PDF) Get it here: DriveThruRPG Have you ever wanted to create a Pathfinder character that was fit to be in a Ye Olden Spyse commercial? Ever made a character that was…
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Tabletop Review: Early Dark RPG
Early Dark Role-Playing Game Publisher: Anthropos Games Authors: Calvin Johns and Chuck Wendig Page Count: 400 Release Date: 7/10/2011″¨ Cost: $36.95 (PDF) Get it here: DriveThruRPG Early Dark is the first game released by Anthropos Games, an Austin, TX-based outfit headed by Calvin Johns. Currently only a PDF version of the core book is available,…
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Tabletop Review: Age of Cthulhu Vol. 6: A Dream of Japan (Call of Cthulhu)
Age of Cthulhu Vol. 6: A Dream of Japan Publisher: Goodman Games Pages: 42 Cost: $12.99 ($8.99 PDF) Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Age of Cthulhu is the branding for Goodman Games’ line of Call of Cthulhu adventures. Age of Cthulhu adventures tend to be quite different, yet no less enjoyable than the…
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Missions: Free Taiwan
Shadowrun Missions: Free Taiwan Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 19 Cost: Free! Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Free Taiwan is the latest in this season of Shadowrun Missions. I’m a big fan of this series, as you get extremely high quality adventures in full colour that can easily be run by a GM…
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Tabletop Review: Codex Guide to the Medieval Baltic
Codex Guide to the Medieval Baltic Publisher: Ire Games Pages: 268 Size: 49.1 MB Cost: $8.00 Release Date: 11/26/2010 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I highly recommend that anyone wishing to become a Game Master start collecting books and forming a reference library. There are lots of books that can help any GM create a more…
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun Street Legends: Home Edition
Shadowrun: Street Legends Home Edition Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 16 Cost: FREE Release Date: 04/01/2012 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com Home Edition is the third entry in the Shadowrun: Street Legends line. These books contain bios and stat blocks of famous or infamous characters from Shadowrun history, be it old classic FASA era characters like…
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Tabletop Review: Torn World Presents: Hand-Drawn Dungeons: Volume I
Torn World Presents: Hand-Drawn Dungeons: Volume I Publisher: Torn World Pages: 7 Size: 26.81 MB Cost: $4.99 Release Date: 1/18/2012 Get it Here: RPG Now.com There is something special about hand-drawn maps that have always appealed to me as a GM and a player. I don’t know if it is the old-school feel or the…
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Tabletop Review: Paper Model: Ruined House #1
Ruined House #1 Publisher: Lord Zsezse Works Pages: 5 Size: 23.23 MB Cost: $4.95 Release Date: 10/31/2011 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Some GMs prefer a minimalist approach to running a game, just PC sheets and dice. Others prefer simple maps and miniatures, while others like to use a whole array of props and game aids…
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Tabletop Review: Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition (Call of Cthulhu)
Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition Publisher: Chaosium Pages: 196 Cost: $28.95 ($20.26 PDF) Release Date: 03/30/2012 Get it Here:Drivethrurpg.com When Chaosium sent me Cthulhu By Gaslight, Third Edition to review, the first thing I did was go to my bookshelf and pull down my second edition version from 1988 along with 1993’s Sacraments of Evil,…
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Tabletop Review: Village Snooper: Blacksmith Shop
Village Snooper: Blacksmith Shop Publisher: Fishwife Games Pages: 1 Cost: $1.00 Release Date: 01/10/2012 Get it Here: RPGNow.com The Village Snooper series of one-page descriptions of various establishments you might find in a village or small town. This particular download is for a Blacksmith shop and is broken down into four main areas: map, map…
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Tabletop Review: Classic Monsters: The Manual (Castles & Crusades)
Castle& Crusades: Classic Monsters: The Manual Publisher: Troll Lord Games Page Count: 146 Release Date: 03/27/2012 Cost: $24.99 ($14.99 PDF) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I love the Castles & Crusades system, but I tend to have to problems with it. The first is that their releases tend to be overpriced compared to competitive products, especially…
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Tabletop Review: Cultists of Havra Zhoul
Cultists of Havra Zhoul Publisher: Raging Swan Press Pages: 27 pages Cost: 4.99 (watermarked PDF) Release Date: 01/26/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com INTRODUCTION: Cultists of Havra Zhoul is a very interesting twenty-seven page fantasy supplement that is fully compatible for Paizo’s Pathfinder roleplaying game and with minimal modifications and can be compatible with other fantasy…
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Tabletop Review: Shadowrun: Damage Control (Boardroom Backstabs)
Shadowrun: Damage Control (Boardroom Backstabs) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Pages: 58 Cost: $14.99 ($8.00 PDF) Release Date: 03/24/2012 Get It Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m a pretty big fan of the current incarnation of Shadowrun. I find the writing to be well done and entertaining. I like that the public adventures are often outside the box. I…
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Tabletop Review: Once Upon a Time in the Far West (Music Review)
Once Upon A Time in the Far West Publisher: Adamant Entertainment Composer: Sam Billen Track Count: 5 Release Date: 3/19/2012 Cost: $5.00 Get it here: DrivethruRPG.com (MP3 download) Once Upon a Time in the Far West is an aural companion to Far West, a role-playing game, book (graphic novel?), comic, what have you that blends…