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I recall some of my friends giving Grim Hollow the Shadowrun Treatment: love the setting, iffy on the rules. I'm a bit in this camp, although I haven't done a deep dive on the mechanics like I usually do when reviewing books so some stuff may escape me. The Grim Hollow Player's Guide added quite...

Don't know if this is the best place to ask, but I've been meaning to get the 5e version of Zeitgeist for a while. I'm aware that the adventures are available as their own separate products on EN Publishing's storefront, but together they're a tad pricey. I have heard that you can get the...

Generally speaking, there's nothing in the rules that specify that you must begin in a safe area. Some of the Preparation Phase abilities imply starting off in an area of civilization, but most of them are location-neutral. The Journey's End is definitely the odd way out in that the Arrival roll...

Amazing Grace This campaign unveils a unique 7th ability score, Grace, being sort of a general morality stat. Sadly, there are few avenues that explicitly call for the use of this ability in either of the Red Panda adventures released so far, really only amounting to checks made upon Holy...

The penultimate chapter of Azrael’s Guide to the Apocalypse throws in a fresh mix on things, where instead of a big singular boss taking up the majority of the chapter it’s a prolonged siege involving multiple encounters, a pseudo-dungeon crawl, and then a proper boss fight. In order to take...

The PCs are now 17th level, meaning that the pure casting classes get access to 9th level spells. The book has a sidebar for how to handle several of them in play: Gate can be used to summon Elders beyond the limits for a mission, but with the drawback that they will leave play after the mission...

Now that the PCs have Azrael’s Book and Timekeeper, they can shift to any time and place in the Veil. However, due to timeline rules they can only be passive observers, meaning they can’t do something like kill Hitler or save Jesus. I get the sentiment, but this robs the party of doing something...

For this post, we’re going to be covering two chapters instead of one. That’s because they’re both individually quite short. Azrael is really down in the dumps about the failure of their last mission. In case the PCs haven’t figured it out, Azrael will tell the party that Jeremiah Resh is the...

Once again the PCs return to the Lampstands, but the Elder accompanying them in the prior chapter says their goodbyes and passes into Heaven for good. With two braziers extinguished, the voice of God tells them their next mission: The quote is exactly how it’s written in the book, in a...

After the PCs finish their long rest, Azrael will have deposited Ashmedai in a prison near the end of time. He and the party will be summoned back to the room with seven Lampstands, one of their fires no longer burning. The Reapers' next mission is as follows: the Woman is in labor and giving...

All of these settings have promise; tomorrow can't come soon enough!

The original Dragonlance adventures. Curse of Strahd. The r/rpghorrorstories subreddit. Veterans of these tales are all too familiar with the concept of the DMPC, or an NPC ally who tags along with the party for an extended period of time. They receive much condemnation in the tabletop fandom...

Our adventure begins with the deaths of the PCs. The circumstances of how they died are left to the players, who describe what was happening themselves. Each such scene is individually acted out, although the DM is encouraged to give the player as much autonomy as possible in determining the...

You're very welcome! I don't know how long this one will take, but I have some others in the backlog I want to clear out before 2023 ends. If I had to think of a close enough comparison, I'd pick the Doom series. But it's kind of hard to be too scared when you realize that the monsters should...

While in other Let’s Reads I’d move on to the next chapter, on KickStarter I picked up some exclusive add-ons for Azrael’s. One of them is already released, a short 8-page PDF of an in-universe newspaper chronicling how the Antichrist got to power and changed the world for the worse. It can thus...

That was a pretty neat read. I can't honestly say if I'd use it in any of my own campaigns, but I do like seeing more navigation and survival mechanics. I'm partial to anything that strengthens the Exploration and Social pillars of 5th Edition. I'm partial to Monte Cook's Ptolus, which...

Note: This product isn’t yet available to the general public, but it is available to KickStarter backers. 2nd Note: I don't have a religious background and am reviewing the product on its merit as a gaming supplement. The relative truth/falsity of the Abrahamic and other faiths covered isn't an...

I'm doing well, can't complain. I'm planning on getting back into reviews this August after taking a bit of a personal vacation. I love the names for all the tiered locations, too. Last City of MAN and Toxic Alchemical Sump sound like something you'd see when browsing metal music albums.

A bit of thread necromancy, but a post on the KickStarter page went into their next project: an urban sandbox in Dungeon Town, plus a customizable delver wagon miniature. And a third card deck of illustrated characters, too.

Looking good! I love the last bit of artwork; never have I imagined I'd feel sorry for a purple worm. Regarding the BFG, I can see CharOps types to comb through the rules to get around its inherent limitations. "No, you see, this class feature's teleportation ability only references size, not...