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Ah yes. These reviews which appear on ENWorld really do appear on GameWyrd first. At GameWyrd the scale is 1-10. This wasn't a 5/10 book. It's strange how many people are content to see 3 stars but are alarmed at 5/10. Dodgy roleplaying maths has too many gamers rounding .5 down!

The core idea in Wild Spellcraft is a rocky steady one. Wouldn’t it be better if magic was a little less scientific? Magic works to rules and carefully defined regulations in a roleplaying game because that makes for neat, clean and easy to understand game mechanics. Wild Spellcraft suggests a...

Hmm. Traditionally I’m not a fan of pre-written adventures. Most just don’t seem to be worth the money. Most just seem to be dumbed down (so they can be printed in a realistic number of pages) scenarios that any amateur GM could write. They’re just not value for money. There is one clear way in...

One of my favourite companies in the d20 scene at the minute are Green Ronin. The quality of their writing is top of the line and their products are wonderfully professional. The Assassin’s Handbook also has great writing and a professional layout and quality to it – but the concept falls flat...

It was sacrilegious. I read most of The Book of the Righteous either in bed or here beside the PC. You just have to pick up the hardbound tome to know that the correct way to read the book is to rest it on an altar or pulpit, light a respectful amount of candles and share the carefully composed...

Actually, Spells & Magic isn't mentioned in the reading list on page 7. Even those ones which are rank only as "handy" rather than "must have". Although Minions really is needed if you want to have the stats for every single race of note mentioned in the "Inhabitants" section. I do still have...

Oathbound is a truly impressive book. Physically the book is impressive; a scary tally of 352 pages, solid hardcover, full colour and plenty of sinewy illustrations. Oathbound: Domains of the Forge is a campaign setting, a high fantasy, high powered campaign setting and done with elements of...

Temples and Shrines is an electronic product but it’s not a PDF download. These floorplans are packaged as a carefully grouped html frameset. This means its easy to print out the exact floorplan you want but really hard to print them all out in one go. Over all, the advantages in the html format...

This is my third review of a Darkfuries floorplan set – and it’s not a redundant review. Each of these floorplans have evolved significantly from the one before. Previously I started by pointing out that although these are electronic floorplans that they are not packed as PDF documents. The...

Requiem for a God is an electronic event book from the ever popular Monte Cook's Malhavoc Press. Requiem is an electronic product at the moment but come November it'll be available in print. Malhavoc Press works through Sword and Sorcery Studio (hence the logo on Requiem's cover) and SSS are...

Popular fantasy roleplaying games have butchered the Medusa myth. She’s no longer the vain beauty who so terribly annoyed the goddess Athena and was cursed as a result. Medusa has become an entire race. The Slayer’s Guide to Medusas doesn’t try and correct this but it does succeed in making...

Darkness and Light in another PDF offering from the Vigilance Press super hero d20 line. Darkness and Light is presented in a similar style as Vigilance; size 12 font, solid use of red and blue in the text and two clear columns without anything in the way of stupid single word lines of text...

NPC Essentials carries the d20 logo; whereas I appreciate the marketing strategy there I have to say that it doesn’t do justice to the sheer universal scope of the guide. The advice for GMs on running NPCs can be applied to any game, any setting and at any time. The use of the d20 logo is...

I really rather liked the electronic edition of Darwin’s World so I wasn’t sure whether the new print edition would be able to maintain my enthusiasm. Worse, I was slightly worried that the book would actually start to spoil things for me. There’s more than just the PDF Darwin’s World in the...

GameWyrd strives to bring you reviews of the latest releases and that’s just what we’re doing with this review of the Epic Level Handbook. This high profile Wizards of the Coast product was released in the UK just this week. It’s been available for those of you who share a landmass with the...

Rarely has there been such a controversial roleplaying supplement. Long before the release of the Slayer’s Guide to Female Gamers there had been much debate on the Mongoose forums and mailing list. It’s a satire, poking fun more at male players than female players but the mere suggestion that...

The Way of the Dead, I thought, promised two things - information on the powerful, glamorised and thus favourite character "race" of the undead Harrowed and conversion rules to turn your entire collection of original Deadlands into the d20 system. Ah. Silly me. It’s a 96-paged, soft back...

Look at the way the code mangled the ' into &#8217. Is that how the review appears on your browser because it appears to be fine in mine... but I'm aware that might just be Micro$oft reading Micro$oft. Besides, yes, you're right. There was time before there was space.

Temporary paradox, permanent paradox, awakened, celerity and an entirely different magic system than the Dreaming system used by the fairies. I’m talking about Mongoose’s duel Encyclopaedia line of course. Which product line did you think I was talking about? If you thought I was talking about...

Highthrone is populous city that thrives on top of a mountain. The mountain is missing its peak and at the very top there’s a huge crater in which the city nestles. Think volcano and you’re there. The local mages know but the average man on the street in Highthrone has not actually clued in on...