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Ed Bourelle is one of the elite cartographers, one of the very best in the industry and his work is often found associated with d20 products. We see that here with Dungeons of Doom where he teams up with d20 experts Green Ronin. In fact if you're used to Green Ronin products then you might not...

Zzzz. It's through no fault of the production quality nor quirk of The Game Mechanics' writing style that this book put me to sleep. Artifacts of the Ages: Rings is actually 80 pages running through magical ring ideas. It's US$17.95. Magic rings... hmm. What an original idea for a fantasy...

Dark Inheritance I like the idea of a godgene. Maybe I have it. Maybe you do? It's easy to see the attraction to Dark Inheritance. This is a modern setting d20 game with a good twist or two. This is a Spycraft game but rather than being another d20 RPG from the AEG production presses this is an...

Dark Legacies Player Guide The biggest limitation in Dark Legacies: Player's Guide is that it is just a player's guide. Here we have a refreshingly different d20 supplement which dips into what promises to be a hugely interesting campaign world but doesn't explore further. This, of course, is...

Rungie Rampholean the Master of Traps will set you back a gigantic $1 currently. That's half the price of the usual whopping figure of $2. The discount might be money back for the entirely unpronounceable name of this NPC. $1 for 22 pages is the sort of price that only PDF products can do...

Ssethregore: In the Coils of the Serpent Empire is much easier to read than it is to pronounce. Ssethregore. If it has a snake-like hiss about it then the tongue-twisting name has done its job. And yeah; the tag line "In the Coils of the Serpent Empire" does rather like the cat, er, snake out of...

Mutatis Mutandis: Minigame issue #3 Mutatis Mutandis is the third minigame magazine from Valent Games. The downside to GameWyrd being snowed under and months behind in reviews is that this magazine is far from being hot off the PDF press. The upside is that you can pick up Mutatis Mutandis more...

Bulldogs! is a Sci-Fi RPG which uses the d20 fantasy core set. From the outset this puts Bulldogs! at odds with d20 Future. Bulldogs! hit the shelves first but that's little assistance when you compare the size and relative new appearance of Galileo Games to that of Wizards of the Coast. It's...

Should be three stars - review whent up when I was clueless to the new interface :D

The Cavalier's Handbook This is a review of The Cavalier's Handbook from Green Ronin. A Cavalier is typically a mounted warrior, a fighter on a horse (or a supporter of Charles I of England). It's funny how the combination of mount plus fighter creates a new class angle in the way that doesn't...

Mutants & Masterminds Annual #1 Mutants and Masterminds is a rare RPG product. It started well. There are now lots of supplements for it. Mutants and Masterminds is still going well. This review looks at the first Mutants & Masterminds Annual. If this supplement was just a list of more heroes...

Green Ronin's Mythic Vistas series tends to be jolly good. Ever since the surprisingly on-the-ball and widely acclaimed Testament it has been one to watch. With Trojan War we're back to Earth of mythic history (and where the series name Mythic Vistas seems especially appropriate). With Trojan...

The Le have bundled together free or low cost goodies to produce a luxury. The text in SRD Illustrated: Core Classes is all free. The Systems Reference Document (SRD) for d20 is a collection of rules which can be used by other d20 products. They're free. If you don't mind downloading rich text...

I don't tend to pay too much attention to blurbs in RPG supplements any more. The first sentence in Modern Magic tells us that magic is no longer confined to dungeons. I don't need to read that. I know this is a d20 Modern magic supplement. I do like books which set out their goals early. The...

It wasn't that long ago since I reviewed Corwyl: Village of the Wood Elves. It's a stalwart product. Corwyl is a setting-cum-adventure (the best sort of pre-packaged adventure, I think) and an extension for Bow & Blade. One of my grumbles about Corwyl is that it was fairly heavily entwined with...

I'd argue with you if thought Unorthodox Fighters wasn't good value at US $2 for nearly 30 pages. Sure, you might have to take off a few pages for the front cover, intro and d20 legal foo. On the other hand you add in 24 pages of appendix for OGL spells and feats. That's about 50 pages for $2...

The Medieval Player's Manual has 128 pages but it reads like a larger book. There are two reasons why that phenomenon can occur. The first possible reason is a bad one; lead page syndrome, when the book's so bad and your stamina for it so depleted that pages might as well be made of lead for the...

Wizards of the Coast' the Book of Exalted Deeds faces a tough test if it wants to provide 192 pages of worthwhile resources for players who want to do more than just slap "good" in for their alignment and then act like neutral party members. In the introduction we're told that the Book of...

Corwyl: Village of the Wood Elves is really two books. The first book is an adventure setting and the second book is a companion for Green Ronin's Bow and Blade. Green Ronin have a winner with Bow and Blade and I'm interested in Corwyl being an extension for it. I find Corwyl's less...

Into the Blue is a decent book. It's just a hop and a splash a way from being a much better book. Into The Blue is Bastion Press' d20 sea supplement. We've new races and spells as well as suitably detailed studies of different aquatic environments. Where's the hiccup? Despite explaining how...