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A new edition of the game which slams high fantasy and cyberpunk together in one of the most popular role-playing games of all time! The heart of the game setting - a blending of magic and science fiction, cyberpunk and fantasy, the Matrix and Great Dragons – remains intact, and enthralls...

Mindjammer's new OSR game is a fresh take on old-school gaming, allowing you to import materials from older game systems. It seems I’ve been reviewing a considerable number of OSR games these days, and it’s exciting to see how the wheel can be reinvented in so many unique ways. What started as...

Can politics, intrigues, and para-military activities satisfy fans of space opera RPGs? A game set 200 years in Earth’s future, when wars and resource depletion ravage humanity but hope exists in the form of an FTL drive to escape a dying world. Science-fiction Role Playing Games have a very...

There are many different ways to handle cyberpunk settings, and the role-playing game community have seen a lot of interesting takes on this high-tech genre over the years. Shadowrun and Cyberspace RPGs have been the most conspicuous, but other game systems like GURPs and Hero System have taken...

The new and highly anticipated MMORPG, Neverwinter Online, has been in available in open beta for over a month now! A host of the Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts, Forgotten Realms loremeisters, R.A. Salvatore fans, and MMO aficionados have been able to jump right in and experience Cryptic...

When I was a much young gamer, I had some pretty stark views on mixing genres in my role-playing games. I preferred Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for my Fantasy RPG, Traveller for my Science-Fiction RPG, and Call of Cthulhu for when I wanted a Horror RPG. There were a few exceptions to genre...

Given the mysterious, dangerous, and unknown qualities of outer space, it’s not too surprising that elements of horror creep into even the most hopeful of science fiction novels and movies. It’s rather logical that we humans have an innate anxiety over dark places, and the cosmos seems to be...

From as far back as I remember, it seems like I’ve always been a bit of an Anglophile. No use denying it - I’ve always felt that I was born on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Oh I’m not knocking being an American or anything, but I definitely felt a very strong affinity toward British culture...

I’ve always been a fan of the Hero System, mainly because I find it to be one of the most adaptable and modular system I’ve ever played. Over the years, I’ve adapted it to play much more than just a “supers” RPG, tweaking the rules to run my own fantasy world with a very odd magic system, a...

I recall always being frustrated by one aspect of Dungeons & Dragons, regardless of whether I was running 1st Edition, AD&D, or 3.5: There are just too many gosh darned spells! No matter which edition you name, there has always been a serious case of “spell creep”, with more and more new...

Given the time of year, the idea of “good little children” might evoke thoughts of Santa making a list of which are naughty and which are nice. But rather than an adventure of holiday cheer, this adventure is designed with along the lines of the chills and ghostly happenings one might find in...

As I mentioned in a couple of previous reviews, the past few years have seen an explosion of independent games and innovative new game systems appearing all over the Fantasy Role-Playing Game market. Gamers have a wide range of choices now between game rules which are detailed and focused on...

Voyages across uncharted seas to far-away places have been part of human myth, legend, and history since the beginning of recorded time and beyond. Whether it’s from Odysseus’ journeys back to Ithaca as told in Homer’s Odessey, the great sea-battles and heroic deeds told in the Sagas, or the...

There’s that old adage that says “One never gets a second chance to make a first impression.” And for the most part, that adage is very true when meeting people for the first time. But the secret is that the old saying is also true when you are asking for any kind of review. So whether...

From my perspective, one of the more unexpected offshoots of 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons is Fourthcore. While tournament-style adventure modules have been part of the D&D experience since the earliest days of the RPGA Tournaments, D&D 4E always seemed to stress balance both among character...

One of the OSR game systems that I’ve really come to admire and enjoy is the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game – or DCC RPG for short – by Goodman Games. Those gamers who are familiar with my Neuroglyph Games blog site may have noticed a few recent entries talking about my starting up a...

Review of Midgard Player’s Guide to the Dragon Empires by Kobold Press Every branch of the Dungeons & Dragons family-tree, from the “core” Editions made by TSR and WotC, Paizo’s Pathfinder RPG, and the myriad OSR games, all have one thing in common: a need for a user-friendly campaign setting...

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