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Spears of the Dawn is an old school style fantasy game set in a fantasy world inspired by Sub-Saharan Africa. While African inspired fantasy games aren't entirely unheard of, they are pretty rare. Off the top of my head I can only think of Nyambe, for d20, and a series of adventures in Dungeon...

Personally, it's what I've always wanted out of a SR game. I grew up playing computer games, and one of my favorites in high school was a game called Breach, where you played a group of space marines battling aliens, robots, and other space marines. It was a turn based tactical combat game with...

The Cthulhu Mythos have pretty much been a part of D&D since the beginning, though its official presence was largely scrubbed from it for legal reasons. As we are now well past the 70th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft's death, and there are no well monied conglomerates claiming his works as their...

The funny thing about the original Star Trek is that it's an extremely blatant copy of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The only major difference is cosmetic. You have a starship in space as opposed to a submarine, and a more multinational crew. But the same plotlines - mysteries, aliens...

I don't see why that is a bad thing. That's sort of supposed to be the lure of the burnt out mage, getting cyberware (or bioware in this case) at the expense of their magic ability. Anyway, I do think it illustrates the problem you always get in new editions that change things - some people...

I was underwhelmed by ACKS It does offer customization, but it's such a hodge podge of things. It uses a weird way to calculate attacks (sort of like THAC0, but AC starts at 0 instead of 10), and the bestiary is so limited so you have to do a lot of extra conversion work (since it's not...

Yeah, that's the thing, all too often you don't know what you get until you've actually bought it. With RPGs it seems like you either get a gigantic bargain (if you end up playing it) or it just goes to waste (if you don't). Free can go a lot way towards avoiding that. Like say a game that...

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea (ASSH) is a recently released retro clone from North Wind Adventures. I say retro clone, but it's one of those games that is based on old school D&D, but also tries to do its own thing, like Adventurer Conquerer King, Blood & Treasure, Adventures...

So basically it's just 4e with some tweaks? edit: I'm only really familiar with 1-3e and I don't seem to recognize the terminology mentioned at least. Build points? Priority system? Accuracy? P as a damage type? SR2 you had L,M,S,D for light, moderate, severe, and deadly (conditions on the...

I'm sorry, but D&D was built upon IP infringement. Hobbits, Balrogs and Ents were lifted from Tolkien, not folklore. A lot of the early art (from the original booklets) was traced over. This has been fairly well documented. Worlds were based on the Outdoor Survival map. Iconic D&D monsters were...

Good to see Monte Cook's company be so successful he needs a COO.

Granted, there's not a whole lot of action in the fan review section, so not a big deal. But it's annoying to click on a review only to find out it's a video review (which I'm not gonna watch). Could we get tags or something for those? If not, no biggie...

At least according to the DMG, he got a lot of the armor descriptions out of this book, Armour & Weapons by Charles John Ffoulkes http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41676/41676-h/41676-h.htm ' Or in other words, studded leather. Also ring mail is described, as is banded mail. Did these armors...

Well, thanks to the 4 other people who voted for my entry, Monsters & Ruins (not Monsters Ruins as it says).

Apparently I'm strange in that I grew up reading Michael Moorcock along with Tolkien, right when I started playing D&D. So both the ideas of planes and there being philosophical forces (Law & Chaos) are something I strongly associate with fantasy and D&D. So I like the idea of the Great Wheel...

Monsters & Ruins: Yet Another Retro Clone This is my entry, Monsters & Ruins. It's basically yet another retro clone, one I had been working on. I was a very enthusiastic fan of 3rd edition when it came out and that enthusiasm lasted several years, waning slightly before finally burning out...

Typo in the Paizo store description , should be our. This inspired me to re-read Santiago. Really good book. I still like the Widowmaker novels better, and The Dark Lady is probably my favorite (and also a great inspiration for inserting fantasy into this), but I think judged solely on how...

I got started when the 1e PHB had come out, but the DMG hadn't. The DM was a friend's older brother who had the wood grain box, which is presumably how he did combat.

I'm not sure the bubble is bursting exactly, but at least in the RPG/boardgame arena, people are becoming more skeptical. For one, there have been a number of KS projects that were funded many times over, yet the creator never finished the project. And almost all of them are several months to a...