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For many fantasy roleplaying fans, Erik Scott de Bie bounded into the spotlight in 2005 with his first Forgotten Realms novel, Ghostwalker, published by Wizards of the Coast. This gritty fantasy novel, with its dark portrayal of vengeance, was certainly one that explored the boundaries of...

Pathfinder RPG has definitely redefined how “d20/3.5 style” characters are created and designed for many gamers. The use of archetypes to help reshape classes, and traits to further sculpt and define abilities, are just some of the features that makes PF RPG the game of choice for many tabletop...

Use of the word Punk, from its earliest use to describe a genre of gritty urban near future or a steam-powered Victorian-esque setting of strange inventions and daring-do, has lost none of its charm over the years. Those genres have the power not only to capture the imagination of their fans...

There are places that exist in fantasy literature which can be just as memorable as the characters in the story are. Whether one is reading Tolkien, Jordan, Martin, or some other author of heroic fantasy, these locales take on a life of their own, possessing names which instantly conjure vivid...

Among the generic role playing game systems out there, there is little doubt that Savage Worlds Deluxe is really attracting a strong following of RPG fans. Quite a number of Third-Party Publishers have been creating campaign and setting material specifically designed for use with SWD RPG...

It probably comes as no shock to most gamers that Kobold Press/Open Design has become quite a powerhouse in the Third Party Publishing neighborhood of the RPG Community. For several years now, Open Design has been providing considerable high quality content for a number of fantasy role playing...

In most RPGs, there is a natural progression to the power level of the campaign, from low level to high level. The threats faced by the nascent heroes, while often challenging, are nothing compared to the terrible dangers faced by advanced characters with some “experience” in them...

From a certain perspective, the act of playing in a roleplaying game is essentially a tag-team game of “What If?”. Although role playing can be a lot more immersive than that, particularly for those players who enjoy creating nuances to their characters’ personalities, yet there is still a...

Gritty. High Tech. Urban. Dystopic. All these words can be used to describe some aspect of cyberpunk, and yet none of them can truly capture the mind-blowing enormity of this science fiction genre. Born from the minds of some of the edgiest authors, cyberpunk games have always had a loyal...

One of the quintessential features of any Fantasy RPG system is the inclusion of magic, in some kind or another. Whether based upon spells or rituals, or even strange powers manifesting in certain creatures and individuals, the existence of magic in a world tends to differentiate that RPG...

It’s hard to deny that Nazis deservedly get the Evilest-Guys-on-the Planet-Black-Hat Award. And whether appearing in an old black-and-white classic film or chasing Indiana Jones through two movies, their demises are always applauded by audiences happy to see a reckoning to the perpetrators of...

With many roleplayers, enjoying anime of one kind or another is just part of the “gamer experience”. Regardless of the genre, gamers who are fans of anime often find ways to incorporate aspects of the media into their gaming, whether drawing on character elements, plot devices, or whole worlds...

There are plenty of Science Fiction role-playing games on the market these days, and just as many (if not more) settings to go along with them. While some of these SciFi role-playing games are built proprietarily for the genre, and even a specific setting, there are some noted generic...

Given how many new RPGs and supplements are published in any given year, it’s far too easy to overlook reviewing a system that has a profound effect on the RPG community. But it’s never too late to go back and take a look at a product line that should have been featured here...

Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu RPG has long been a perennial favorite in the Role-playing Game Community, offering fans of Lovecraft’s unique horror stories a playground amidst the terrible dread of the Cthulhu Mythos. The CoC RPG has seen seven editions of the game system and setting – thirteen if...

Whizzing about in starships, aliens on alien worlds, and travelling among the stars is the very stuff of space-opera role-playing. Whether you like your science-fiction hard or soft, RPG players have a wide range of game systems and settings to explore strange new frontiers, drawn from decades...

One of the great aspects of role-playing is the chance to “experience” things which most of us never could in our mundane existence. And playing fantasy RPGs gives players the opportunity to interact with creatures and places out of ancient myths, famous legends, and well-known literature...

For a while there, it felt like the big trend in creating content for a fantasy role-playing game was to either make a single module, or to dump a whole adventure arc on the GM. Sure, it works for some gaming groups, but sometimes gamers find that it’s good to have more choices for stand-alone...

As we all know, heroic fantasy is not always heroic. The motivations of some characters are not always clear, and even when they do seemingly good deeds, there might be a not so pure motive behind them. Or maybe the lands where the heroes hail from are not entirely goodly in their laws and...

Imagine visiting a small colony in a strange land, built only a few decades ago. This young colony is so very far from civilization, surrounded by unexplored wildernesses and vistas as yet unseen by human eyes. Now imagine that fresh new colony not in unknown strange lands, but on an unknown...