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There's a strong call to action for The Le's Unorthodox Clerics. For US$2.00 you can download 33 pages of alternative Cleric based classes. That's the sort of money you could find hiding in the back of the sofa. If you're indeed of variant Cleric classes there's not much to consider here. Is...

The Book of Guilds from Valent Games is rather good. The Book of Guilds is the second from the minigame series. Minigame is something of an ezine - with back issues being cheaper than the current one. There's nothing particularly eziny about The Book of Guilds. It looks, reads and feels like a...

The significant plot twist in Frontier Towns: Fort Griffin, Volume 1 is that we're not looking at Fort Griffin but the nearby town known as The Flat. Despite the un-inspirational name The Flat is an interesting town due to the interesting Wild West characters who pass through and dwell there...

Damn. Charge! isn't a great book but it comes annoyingly close. Charge! is a good book. It's one of those times I find myself spending more time wishing Charge! had gone that extra mile and been perfect for me and less time reflecting on how well it does almost everything else. In my mind...

Dark Quest Games offer us Lost Prehistorica as a toolkit for exotic lands. The supplement isn't an off the shelf campaign setting and it isn't just a splatbook. A splatbook would just have stats and crunchy bits in it. Lost Prehistorica does seem to have a middle ground. There are plenty of...

I'm at work here - but I think the Lasserator spelling is theirs, the butt-kicking spell check foobar mine and power issues really are per game (house rules, availability of magic weapons, combat frequency, etc) but I agree that a vanilla mathematical analysis can suggest one class seems to be...

RPGObjects' Arthurian d20 series started life as two PDFs and have made it to the prestigious incarnation as a single hardback book. Legends of Excalibur has a mottled yellow-gold front cover which really makes it stand out. The next thing you notice as you begin to flick through the book are...

Alea Publishing Group's paper tiles are a simple animal with a simple purpose in life. We have full colour cartography (and a black and white one to be kinder on the printer). Unlike other similar products in this market place APG Paper Tiles doesn't try provide value for money (US $5) by...

Gosh. Two bucks for thirty pages - you can't fault that. The Le's Unorthodox series tours through d20 D&D's core classes and for this review we're looking at Unorthodox Monks. With Unorthodox Monks we might expect to find alternatives to the traditional monk class. The first unorthodox...

Depends what you want from a review. Plenty of other people will give you an extended tour of the Contents. That's one good way to write a review. I'd rather know how the reviewer felt about the supplement, what thoughts and ideas it put into his head, whether it seemed to match the flavour of...

Yeah, that's a pretty good point Psion. As a core rule I go by the 'rule' of; "What is this product trying to do? How well does it do it". Perhaps I let that slide a little here but I'm not sure. I think the "why would you want this?" question has to be there to some degree otherwise you'd end...

It's virtually impossible (and probably unwise) to take a pre-packed collection of NPCs and plot ideas and import them straight into your game. We're reminded of this in The Algernon Files. BlackWyrm Games joke with us, they promise not to send the gaming police around if we do tinker with this...

I think my initial reaction to Freeport - one of YUS! - is as much to do with the way I've fallen out of love with the setting as the supplements which came out after it. I had my own concept of the city setting and couldn't shift it. The supplements designed to support the city only seemed to...

Yeah, I can imagine if you're not into horror at all and don't particularly care that they've a spectrum of horror styles in the wee product then all the Pros will become "Blahs" and you'll be left without any reason to buy the PDF.

I don't normally notice whether a PDF opens up to show its bookmarks or not. I like bookmarks in a large PDF and tend to notice when they're missing or when using them annoyingly re-sizes the PDF. This Monster Geographica from Expeditious Retreat Press is a large product. We get 200 pages for...

Just by doing TOMCATS Blue Devil Games have done themselves proud. Their first product, Poisoncraft: The Dark Art is a solid expansion for a traditional D&D d20 game. 1st Appearance: T.O.M.C.A.T.S. isn't. This PDF is a Mutants and Masterminds Superlink. I still remember my scepticism when M&M...

The Game Mechanics' and Green Ronin's first City Quarter Sourcebook is Thieves' Quarters. This is a review of the paper version which came out after the PDF original. Comparisons between City Quarters and Freeport are inevitable so let's rush to get them over and done with. The Thieves'...

There is a host (a garden, if you will) of seeds from Expeditious Retreat Press and Seeds: Horror is the 5th product. Seeds: Horror (which I always refer to as Horror Seeds) is a quick hit from the d20 publisher. You're looking at a mere US $1.35 in exchange for the PDF. That'll be below the...

I recalls rumours about the D&D; movie sequel being something about a black orb. Wow. That's a flash from the past. The Black Orb (commonly known as the Death Shard) is one of the artifacts from The Le Games' Lawn of the Dead. This is the second product in the Artifacts series and follows on the...

Psionics are probably the most popular "minority" in D&D after the Drow. For D&D d20 we had the The Psionics Handbook early on in the life of the series. The SRD was updated to include the Expanded Psionics Handbook. There are also numerous third party Psionics products from the likes of...