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It must be a perilous time to be a third party Dungeons & Dragons company. The One D&D discussion quickly sucked all the air out of the room. Even though the next iteration of D&D is two years away, I’ve seen a few people declare they aren't buying any more D&D books of any kind until they see...

I wish they would put out the expansions they've promised for years...

My cousin sold off his early card collection for a down payment on his house. I was never so lucky.

Chances are if you’re like me, you’ve got a few cardboard skeletons in your closet. Magic: The Gathering has been around since 1993 and in the intervening years hundreds of games have tried to capture the imaginations and the wallets of gamers by getting them to buy lots and lots of cards. These...

PC Time Lord + Companions is the default game assumption, but there's discussion of other game times, including time travel that uses devices outside of the TARDIS. And it's up to the group to decide if they are playing during the time of a specific doctor or a Regeneration that they've created.

When Cubicle 7 announced a Doctor Who RPG book that used Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition as its basis, there was a great hue and cry on social media. Eventually two basic camps emerged; one that thought that 5e was a terrible fit for Doctor Who stories and one that thought if anyone could make...

There's kind of a baseline suspension of disbelief when it comes to Gianty Stomp Robots. I understand how they are not practical as war machines (see Empire Strikes Back for an example) but giant robots punching each other is cool.

I convinced my mom to drive me and a few of my friends down to Chicago to experience a Battletech Center when I was thirteen years old. For those unaware, these were an early format of multiplayer gaming that featured multiple computers running a Mechwarrior-style 1st person perspective giant...

They offered me the option when sending the review copy and I decided DCC felt like a better fit for the premise. I'm glad they offer it though.

One of the most fascinating things to come out of the OSR for me is the concept of “the funnel”. These adventures encourage players to make multiple low-level characters that are meant to be folded, stapled and generally maligned by the adventure. It’s a tribute to the lethality of older...

I think its a shift away from book stores to game stories that helped this trend. People didn;t liked boxed sets because you couldn't browse them but now with review sites and unboxing videos you don't have to. I also think manufacturers like them because they are harder to pirate. Yes, these...

I think it's overall better quality. But as @eyeheartawk says, the contents are the same, so if you already have this, you don't need to upgrade unless the components were really bugging you.

In case you haven’t noticed we are in something of a boxed set Renaissance. Sure, they call them Starter Sets these days, but a lot of companies are reviving the tradition of peeling off the plastics and cracking open a few evenings worth of roleplaying. One of the first boxed sets that really...

The latest Dungeons & Dragons setting is upon us. Review copies of Spelljammer: Adventures In Space hit my front door, giving me something to page through during the dog days of August. I wanted to discuss some of the things I really enjoyed in the book(s) while trying to stay spoiler free as...