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It took an age for me to work out what was different about the front cover to the Terrors of Twisted Earth. Initially I put it down to the fact that I’d previously seen the illustrations online as part of the electronic lineage of Darwin’s World line. That wasn’t it though. The front cover...

If there was a catchiness test for roleplaying supplements then Whispers of Death would do well. I think that’s a pretty catchy title. I think Sundered Blade is an equally catchy for the company. Whispers of Death is source book for assassin characters in the d20 system. As with every other...

Interludes: Sands of Pain is a pre-packaged adventure for four forth level characters. It’s better than most published adventures for four forth levels characters insofar that throughout the book there are tips for increasing or decreasing the difficulties of scenes if your group of players are...

What a little gem! The Fir Domain is just 32 pages long but don’t let that put you off. Every page has earned its place in the book so the quality is up and the price stays down. The Fir Domain are one of the key tribes of the Earth Goddess, one of the Celtic tribes that your players are...

The Book of Eldritch Might III: The Nexus finishes off the series and rounds things up by giving a home to everything else arcane. It’s the Nexus itself that provides this catch all basket. There are over hundred new spells in here – 111 spells, 49 feats and 97 magic items in fact – but there...

"The World’s Greatest Superhero RPG!" – so announces the front of Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds. Brave words. I decided to put Mutants & Masterminds to the greatest test possible. I dropped the hardbound collection of glossy colour pages into the lap of a friend of mine. He has the...

Gosh. I’ve greatly enjoyed Darkfuries floorplans before; they’re top quality and cheap. Visira: City of Sorrows isn’t a set of floorplans and at $10 it’s not particularly cheap for a PDF either. Mind you, most super-cheap PDFs are shorter than Visira’s 129 pages. So, Visira isn’t cheap, the city...

Was your first character someone who had sworn revenge against raiders who had attacked your village and killed your parents? It’s the first character in The Bonds of Magic: The Faithful too! Am I being too harsh? I really don’t know. It is an ultimate cliché but here the raiders happen to be...

The creatures covered by the Slayer’s Guides are getting progressively scarier and meaner – even when you discount the special Slayer’s Guide to Dragons - and the Slayer’s Guide to Duergar is further proof of this. Duergar are creepy little buggers, dangerous grey dwarves that can vanish at will...

Smoke and Mirrors is the sub-title for the Encyclopaedia Arcane: Illusionism. It’s an ambitious book with three spell lists and three different sets of feats tucked into just 64-pages. I didn’t even notice the prestige classes had been deferred until very late into the book until I turned the...

The Monster Manual II has only just (4th Nov) been released here in Europe. It’s been out in America for months. If I were reviewing Wizards of the Coast’s distribution skills then they’d be getting a stinky 1/10 rating. At this rate we’ll be lucky to see D20 Modern by Christmas. Was it worth...

The Witch’s Handbook is the current offering from Green Ronin’s Master Class series. This time round we see a Witch class as a core class and then a couple of prestige classes as well as new feats and spells. But forget those. Skip to the middle of the book and start reading through the clean...

It’s not vile but it’s not especially good either. The Book of Vile Darkness was doomed to crumble under the weight of the hype. It wasn’t just Wizard’s marketing to blame (in fact, they’re not only allowed to market/hype their products but I encourage them to do so) but also...

The Sleeping Kin is the first of three scenarios in the Kazan Gambit Trilogy for the Judge Dredd d20 RPG from Mongoose Publishing. You don’t often see scenarios coming out of the great Swindon machine but I think it was a wise choice to put something together for Judge Dredd. Mega-City One is...

Hmm. The Complete Guide to Drow has a shaky start. I found myself turning to page 86 of the Monster Manual to remind myself what the default basics of the Drow are. Jet-black skin, evil, live underground, spider goddess and matriarchal. It’s pretty much from here that the Guide picks up. The...

Russian Roulette is the second of the three-part Kazan Gambit scenario set for Judge Dredd. As with the first book it’s 32 pages long and comes it at just under $10. You do really need to have read the first in the series, The Sleeping Kin, to get the most from Russian Roulette. If you’re the...

Arsenal is a strange book. Despite the previews from Perpetrated Press I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book but I had a hunch it would be something different. We’ve had books filled with monsters, books filled with spells and even prestige classes but books dedicated to weapons and armour...

Sorry. I don't have any FFG experience. In fact, I can't even remember Fantasy Flight products being on sale here in Scotland. I shall look through the shelves the next time I'm in my local store.

Prestige classes have quickly become the bread and butter of d20 supplements and publishers after their introduction in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. I’ve seen killer prestige classes as well as filler prestige classes and had entire books devoted to prestige classes but Ultimate Prestige Classes...

Ambient Inc have an agreement with Mystic Eye which has their products put into print. Necromancer’s Legacy is one of these products. The title is an example of hiding in plain sight; the book really is about the legacy of a necromancer even though it also happens to be chock full of new magic...