RPG Reviews – Infinity Player’s Guide

There’s a lot going on in the Infinity game, so having a guidebook for players that summarizes just what they’ll need to know is immensely helpful. It’s also great to have for GMs as a quick refresher and reference guide with a smaller page count! Four paragraphs provide a succinct and through explanation of Infinity …

RPG Reviews – Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Soulbound (Cubicle 7)

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound The world ended in a conflagration of Chaos. The God-King Sigmar was cast into the void and, once rescued, gathered the remaining gods of Order to form his pantheon. Together they brought civilization to the new worlds of the Mortal Realms. However, Chaos is insidious and corrupted the people, then …

RPG Reviews – Children of the Blood (Onyx Path Publishing)

Children of the Blood It’s always helpful to have a list of go-to non-player characters to use in your games. Maybe you need to flesh out your setting, find yourself in need of a background character on short notice, or are tired of creating them yourself. For whatever reason, books focused on a set of …

RPG Reviews – Infinity Faction Books: PanOceania and Yu Jing

The Infinity factions actually pair pretty well together, as I’m discovering through reading them. Previously, I reviewed Ariadna and Haqqislam, both explorers and sort-of middle ground when it comes to the Human Sphere - not the Hyperpowers we’ll look at here and not the fringe cases like the Nomads or Aleph (only in a sense, …

RPG Reviews – They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing)

They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing) It began with the bottom shelf of a corner video store... Friends had discovered a movie so cheesy and hilarious that all of our group had to watch it, and watch it we did- many times over. That movie was Evil Dead 2 and it opened …

Comics Review – The RPG Connection

Hello dear readers! I’m doing something new with this post: reviewing comics that have a connection to a published tabletop roleplaying game. I think it’s likely that many of us have read some “game fiction” at some point in our time in the hobby. My start was the Dragonlance Chronicles 2: Dragons of Winter Night. …

RPG Reviews – Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius)

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.” —from the Manual of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan How does one begin a project like the Dune RPG? What are the discussions like? What goes through everyone’s head as they …

RPG Reviews – Charlie Foxtrot Adventure Compendium (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)

Charlie Foxtrot Adventure Compendium (23rd Century Productions LLC.) When diving into a new game and setting, it can sometimes be overwhelming to plan out adventures and scenarios. Maybe the setting is very expansive, so it can be hard to narrow down just what kind of game to play, or there’s a particular feel the GM …

RPG Reviews – Scarred Lands Creature Collection (Handiwork Games & Onyx Path Publishing)

Scarred Lands Creature Collection (Handiwork Games & Onyx Path Publishing) Bestiaries are fun! I have very fond memories of repeatedly perusing the Monster Manuals (and later Monstrous Manual) for AD&D 1st and 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual. The best part, of course, being when I found a foe I couldn’t wait to throw at my players …

RPG Reviews – Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition – Cults of the Blood Gods (Onyx Path Publishing)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Onyx Path Publishing) Someone really wants me to start playing Vampire: The Masquerade again. Reading Cults of the Blood Gods is like discovering the game all over again. There are familiar elements and revised pieces and wholly new inclusions and it gives me the feel I got when I first …