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The Quick Shots series from The Brood is a good idea. For not much money and with the quick delivery of a PDF product you get 20 encounter ideas with just enough set up to get you going. The idea is that you can use them to plug a whole in a campaign or cover up for a lack of preparation (we all...

Portents and Visions is the Book of Hallowed Might II. The first Book of Hallowed Might was good! It drew on Monte Cook's strength and gave as a wider, rules friendly, scope for our divine spellcasters. It was all about options and game balance. We don't get the same with Portents and Visions...

Poisoncraft: The Dark Art is a d20 supplement on, yup, the dark art of poisons. Although we're encouraged to look beyond the "dark art" and the role poison can play in nature as a defensive quality or hunting assist. Poisoncraft is a thorough supplement and weighs in at 96-pages. Blue Devil...

High fantasy meets mech. My first impressions, based largely on artwork, was of Zoids meets anime. I think Zoids haven't quite died off yet so hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers them. In other words we're talking about great big suits of armour which are driven, rather than worn, by...

Gosh, I suppose you might see this review of Bloodlines as being a touch late. It's just missed Halloween. But no; this review is later than that, Bloodlines has been out for longer than that and in both d20 and for Savage Worlds. Bloodlines is an adventure. So if you're worried about spoilers...

It's been more than two years since a review of Temples and Shrines first appeared on GameWyrd. Darkfuries have put these two years to good use, their product range has expanded, they've moved from HTML products, to PDF and to paper and they've built on their reputation. The original Temples...

Quick Shots Mission File: Bravo is a collection of twenty encounter set ups for the busy or winging GM. The idea here is that if the players do something unexpected, you need to pad out some part of the game, you need to distract the group or you just need something quick then one of these...

The Ducks of Ultimate Doom is a more traditional d20 supplement than you might first imagine. I know it surprised me. This is a collection of artifacts for a d20 fantasy game. At the minute it costs only $1 but that's a mark down from the common price of $2. What do you get for this exorbitant...

Gosh. Here's a delayed response - shows you how often I come and check the re-posts of reviews here! 3/5 at EnWorld is a 6/10 at GameWyrd. If we were at school then that's a B grade. Not bad at all. The overall grade does include an element of "How useful is this book?" and in that sense my...

Unorthodox Rangers is a 25 paged PDF from The Le games. It'll set you back a massive US $2.00. I know; you can't possibly afford that! (I know sarcasm is the lowest form of humour) The most annoying thing about the price is that it's too low to for RPGNow's minimum checkout value and if you're...

I despise being here. I have nothing but contempt for my master. I loathe serving another being, but it will soon end. I think that's cracking start to an RPG supplement. It grabs your attention. It's perhaps surprising that Fantastic Fortresses: Castles and Keeps keeps your attention...

Every now and then a product like Goodman Games' DM Campaign Tracker comes along. I have mixed feelings about these things as I can be one of those compulsive note takers who seem to be unusually common among gamers. Normally I prefer to take my own notes, in my own format because I tailor...

In the Shadow of the Devil is the second in the Coryani Chronicles. Actually, though, you don't strictly need the first Chronicle to use in the Shadow of the Devil. Similarly the adventure is set in Arcanis - The World of Shattered Empires - but you can get a way with converting it to almost any...

Apologies; I'm working through a backlog here and reviewing a magazine dated April 2004. Sometimes there's nothing quite as off-putting as trying to review something old and established. Sometimes, though, sometimes you find a little gem. The Other Side is a little gem. Okay, it's not a...

Sweeping generalisations are wrong... but, there's one I often find hard to fault. There's often a big difference between RPGs which begin by describing the game world, setting and theme and RPGs which begin by describing character creation, combat and skill checks. Slaves of the Moon, The...

The Aerie of the Crow God is from the Dungeon Crawl Classics series from Goodman Games. The idea here is that it's done in the old style of D&D. "Old" as in appearance, when the company was just young their products simple, and when people who are now 45 were 15 and busily kicking in dungeon...

Next Age Heroes is a PDF campaign setting for 3.5 d20 from Black Drink Creations. It's a big project for a small company. Next Age Heroes comes in three pieces. There's one PDF to let your players read safely. There's another PDF for the players that offers up the in-game worldview of...

A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture is one of the most intelligent d20 books I've read. The fact that I nearly typed "A Magical Society: Ecology and Culture is one of the most d20 intelligent books I've read" perhaps shows that I'm not smart enough to give it a fair review! This offering...

In some ways Bloody Jack's Gold gets off to a false start. The front cover says, "Remember the good old days, when adventures were underground, NPCs where there to be killed, and the finale of every dungeon was the dragon on the 20th level?" Hmm. No. I didn't play D&D back then because that's...

Unorthodox Druids might seem like something of an impulse buy - at US$2.00 it's below the minimum checkout value at RPGNow (or, I imagine, any e-retailer who stocks RPG PDFs). These Unorthodox Druids will have to go into the electronic shopping cart along with something else. Electronic...