Category: Tabletop Gaming
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Book Review: Shadowrun: Dark Resonance
Shadowrun: Dark Resonance is the technomancer mystery I didn’t know I needed.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tabletop Review: Cthulhu Britannica London Boxed Set
Cthulhu Britannica London Boxed Set Publisher: Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd. Cost: $89.99 Page Count: 408 Release Date: 01/13/2015 Get it Here: Drive-Thru RPG From the same publisher that’s been putting out the Doctor Who Adventures in Space and Time RPG that I thought was fantastic, comes another entry in the ever expending Call of Cthulhu…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Tabletop Review: The Godsfall
The Godsfall Publisher: Godfall RPG Page Count: 210 Cost: $19 Release Date: 01/2015 (for Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: GodsfallRPG.com It’s been a long, weird road for The Godsfall. It started out in Feburary of 2014 with a Kickstarter and a pledge to be part of Free RPG Day 2014. The Kickstarter failed.…
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Book Review: The Rise of the Horned Rat (Warhammer: The End Times)
The Rise of the Horned Rat (Warhammer: The End Times) Page Count: 389 Cost: $15.99 Release Date: 1/17/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library The Rise of the Horned Rat is a companion novel to the latest two book set for Warhammer: The End Times – Thanquol. Similar to The Return of Nagash and The…
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Book Review: Shadowrun: Hell on Water
Get some packages across a bridge, how hard can it be?
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Unboxing: Cthulhu Wars
Back in July of 2013, Sandy Petersen and his crew at Green Eye Games ran a campaign for a new board game entitled Cthulhu Wars. The game boasted a large core game, featuring seventy-two miniatures and the potential for multiple expansion sets, and the game was a huge success. Nearly 4,000 people pledged 1.4 MILLION…