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Rob Wieland
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Rob Wieland

I am a game designer with over 15 years worth of game credits and industry experience. My work includes licensed games based on worlds like Star Wars, Star Trek and Firefly, classic game worlds like Dungeons & Dragons and Shadowrun and my own creations like Camelot Trigger and Save Game. I play a wide variety of games as part of Theatre of the Mind Players and have been the guest of honor at several conventions. I live with my family in Wisconsin, born near the heart of RPGs (and just a few short years younger than they are).
Convergence Is An Excellent Introduction To Delta Green
Updated adventure which introduced conspiracy horror long before the X-Files!
OSR  Reviews 
There's Plenty Of Time To Die in the Shadowdark
This classic dungeon crawl experience raised over a million on Kickstarter
Reviews  Warhammer 
Investigate Heretics & More In Warhammer’s Gritty New 40K Setting
Play a cog in the Imperial machine where heroes need not apply
Reviews  Warhammer 
Champions of Destruction Brings Orks & More Player Characters to Soulbound
Orks, gobins, hobgoblins, ogres, and trolls join Age of Sigmar TTRPG
Other Games  Reviews 
Hard City Is Inspired By The Asphalt Jungle, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep
A film noir detective roleplaying game
Dungeons & Dragons  Film & TV  Reviews 
Another Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review
Ever since Iron Man came out in 2008, the non-Disney studios have been desperate to build their own cinematic universe franchises. Outside of one or two arguable exceptions, these attempts have fallen flat on their faces. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves certainly has a Marvel-style franchise on its mind. It aims for the same sort of action that Disney has put out for the last fifteen...
Other Games  Reviews 
Surreal Conspiracy Horror: A Public Access Review
As a child of the 80s, I stayed up late to watch a lot of television. It was a different time on the screen back then. Forgotten movies, strange reruns and the oddest of local programming mixed together in a foggy haze where it was sometimes hard to draw a line between what was really on TV what might have been a dream influenced by desperate programming. The latest game from Jason Cordova...
Other Games  Reviews 
Cyberpunk Red: Black Chrome Is A Modern Classic Gear Book
Most gamers love a good gear book. Whether it's deciding on what to buy with all that gold getting inspiration for an entirely new character, it’s one of my favorite types of expansion books. Cyberpunk games do these exceptionally well. I spent so much time curled up with the Street Samurai Catalog and the various ChromeBooks as a kid looking at new options for my characters. The success of...
Other Games  Reviews 
'Flabbergasted!' Brings RPG Hijinks into the Roaring (19)20s!
When most gamers think of the 1920s they think of Call of Cthulhu. While that iconic game has explored plenty of dark corners of the decade, the time was more known for good feelings and little restraint. The Roaring 20’s roared because the world was looking to forget the muddy meatgrinder of the Great War and much of the world was going through an economic upswing. The times wouldn’t last...
Reviews  Warhammer 
Warhammer Fantasy: The Imperial Zoo Review
Monster manuals are one of the evergreen books in tabletop RPGs. Monsters can help define the world not just as things for the players to battle but also through their art and the bits of lore connected to each creature. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition has kept monsters to a minimum so far, focusing on human antagonists with the occasionally fell Chaos beast at the end of an adventure...
Powered by the Apocalypse  Reviews 
Monster Of The Week Retro Review
Powered By The Apocalypse has come on strong as an influential rule set over the last decade plus. It frames every game as a conversation with certain things happening based on the fiction. The discussion of moves, agendas and the like can throw some people off even though much of the game is putting new terminology on old techniques. What really helps people get these games is playing them in...
Other Games  Reviews 
Color My Quest Review
There is likely a tiny human in your life that you want to introduce to gaming. Even if it’s not your own child, there’s a niece, nephew, friend's kid or someone else that might be showing an interest in games. For many people, the traditional choice it to drop off D&D Starter Set or Player’s Handbook and teach kids the way most of us learned back in the day. If you have a younger kid in mind...
2d20  Reviews  Star Trek 
Star Trek Adventures Utopia Planitia Review
My first steps into tabletop gaming came when I bought the Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator at Waldenbooks. My friends and I loved punching out the chits and figuring out the rules, but I found that I cared more about tossing myself over the couch whenever my ship got hit rather than concentrate on the strategy or the deeper mechanics. Ship books are often my favorite books of any...
How Do I Escape D&D?
Although I’ve been writing games (and about them) for over 20 years, I haven’t done much for the Big One. I’ve done a few OGL bits here and there, a Dungeon article for 4e, and a run on the dual statted line for 7th Sea. I talk a lot about the other games that are out there on the panels and podcasts I get to be on and there’s always one inevitable question: "I love this new game that I...
2d20  Reviews  Star Trek 
Star Trek Adventures Discovery Campaign Guide Review
When Star Trek: Discovery came out in 2017 it became one of the most polarizing shows in all of Star Trek. Some fans enjoyed the modern take on the story with season-long arcs and big bad villains. Others were upset that it strayed too far away from what had already been established by previous media for a prequel series. I feel that shows like Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks have done a...
Reviews  Year Zero Engine 
Blade Runner Starter Set Review
Props are one of the things that set apart tabletop role-playing games apart from other entertainments. I truly enjoy seeing a players face light up when I hand them a prop to study rather than describe an item they’ve found. Call of Cthulhu is the master in this area thanks to all the newspaper clippings and mad diary rambling that lead investigators from the real world into the supernatural...

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Other Games  Reviews 
Play To Lose Yourself In The Zone
You won't survive this tragedy of doomed heroes!
Other Games  Reviews 
Parsley Turns Classic Adventure Games Into Fun For Everyone
A new spin on a retro form of text adventure games.
Cypher System  Reviews 
Use This Ghost To Show Off The World Of Old Gods
A one-shot adventure which evokes the generational horror of Stephen King.
Other Games  Reviews 
Welcome…To Jurassic Murderworld
A beginner adventure written by comics writer Jim Zub.

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons  Miniatures 
D&D Red Box: Who Is The Warrior?
A WizKids miniature reveals the iconic character's face for the first time.
Dungeons & Dragons 
2024 D&D Core Rules Will Be Added To SRD In 2025
SRD 5.2 will be released under Creative Commons next year.
Dungeons & Dragons 
Obsessive Dwarven Adventurer Seeks Rivals
Garr is obsessed with proving that he’s better at it than you are—no matter what it is.
Critical Role  Dungeons & Dragons  Miniatures 
WizKids Announced Unpainted Minis for D&D, Critical Role
New individual-packed unpainted minis available for pre-order
Dungeons & Dragons 
Vecna: Eve of Ruin's Table of Contents Leaked (Spoilers!)
The full table of contents leaked by YouTuber 'Gamemasters'.
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Field Guide to Floral Dragons Joins Million Dollar Kickstarter Club
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!

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Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
Field Guide to Floral Dragons Joins Million Dollar Kickstarter Club
One of only two TTRPG creators with four separate million dollar Kickstarters!
Dungeons & Dragons  Industry 
The Dungeon Dudes Notch Up Another Million Dollar Kickstarter
Passes the million dollar mark with just a day to go.
Industry 
Hasbro's Tabletop Is On The Up Again
After a disappointing 2023, latest earnings call from Hasbro shows tabletop games starting to recover.
Industry 
Asmodee Owner To Split Into 3 Companies
Publisher of video games, Star Wars TTRPG, and owner of Middle Earth Enterprises restructures after turbulent year.
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