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I arched an eyebrow when I noticed "Power Classes" on the Mongoose release schedule. The British company already does well through their Collector Series and I believe the Quintessential Fighter must be one of the few non-WotC d20 supplements ever to be make additional print runs, so just what...

The Gladiator is the second in Mongoose’s Power Classes series (and not the first as the introduction claims). The Power Classes are a series of mini-books or 16-paged booklets that come at the cost effective $2.95 each. I think the idea behind the series is about value for money. This mini-book...

This is my first look at a full 0one Roleplaying Game but I had previously encountered their work in the likes of Gaming Frontiers and had been left with the opinion that their cartography is simply stunning. I was right. When you unpack your zipped copy of "the Minotaur" you’ll discover three...

The Exorcist core character class is the third of Mongoose Power Classes and is presented in a booklet of 16 thin pages. It’s about value for money. At $2.95 the booklets aren’t going to break the bank and they’re never going to fall into the same awful mistake category as a $39.95 hardback that...

"Noble" is a class in its own right. Sure, you could encounter nobles who are also wizards, nobles who are clerics, warriors or perhaps even sorcerers but these are nobles who have found the time to learn these skills as an addition to their nobility. Grand courts, shaded diplomacy, moving...

Guilds. Those fantasy stalwarts. Stalwart and yet usually so annoying that they’re not worth the bother. In my experience Guilds have been deployed as a poor way to keep in check character’s level advancements, as impromptu and unrelated plot twists, as half hearted references to what the author...

The Races of Renown series from Green Ronin is part of the OGL Interlink program. This means that titles will not clash with others in the OGL Interlink. Wrath & Rage is the Orc and Half-Orc book in the Interlink and it’ll probably be the only one. I can only hope that the other companies in the...

Joe’s Book of Enchantment is a surprise packet. The title alone is rather unassuming and the cover is entirely without art. As the old adage goes you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. That adage needs to be updated for the 21st century so it can include something appropriate about not judging...

Tir Nan Og is the name of the world setting for the Slaine Roleplaying Game. Slaine’s described as the game of Celtic Heroes and does a very good job of getting across what individual Celtic heroes might be like but there’s not so much attention spend on the land itself. Tir Nan Og makes the...

The Book of Templates is the latest PDF product from Silverthorne Games and I’m sure you’ll be amazed to discover that it’s a book of creature templates. New templates seem to have lagged behind new creatures in terms of new supplements from publishers and perhaps that’s an indication of wider...

It’s brutal, bloody and Celtic. Sláine’s "Land of the Young" is a mixture of fact and fantasy. Strangely enough it’s the factual elements of the game that make it such an appealing fantasy setting. This isn’t a fantasy game where the metallic clash of swords accompanies every melee and neither...

Death: The Guardian of the Gate does very well. It shows that the Dark Quest and Natural 20 Press has been a win-win deal; it means that the rich flavour style of Dark Quest’s fantasy line benefits from the wider audience that the name Natural 20 Press is likely to attract and Natural 20 Press...

I was won over by Star Magic – Wisdom of the Magi; I was suspicious at the start, worried that the book was suggesting a lot of work for little reward but through both persistence and completeness the author changed my mind. Completeness is important. I’m under the impression that most of the...

I was fairly certain that Gaming Frontiers could not continue in the same quality and at the same cost as GF #1 and #2. I was right. The price has gone up from $17.95 to $19.95 and the magazine’s lost its colour. It’s not a disaster; the magazine is still jam packed with interesting articles and...

This half-orc book is the second in the Heroes of High Favor line from Bad Axe Games and this time round the tight focus of the small 62-paged book is a strength. Half-orcs must be the neglected race of the D&D setting and so this time Heroes of High Favor set about addressing that wrong. The...

To be up front and keep this review in perspective, I didn’t much like Common Ground 1 and Common Ground 2 isn’t very different. I don’t think Common Ground 2 could have been very different, there wouldn’t have been much time for opinions expressed about Common Ground 1 to have worked their way...

Metal Gods is the latest PDF in the Darwin’s World line. Darwin’s World recently appeared in print form here in the UK. That must be the quickest transition from PDF only, into print and then into Europe yet. It’s not uncommon for straight to print RPG products in the States never to make it to...

Oh great. A book of prestige classes, 36 prestige classes in 96 pages for $18.95. That’s just over 50c a prestige class and would sound fairly cheap if the d20 world didn’t already ooze with thousands of prestige classes. But wait, there’s more going on in Masters of Arms than just yet another...

Well. Consider this a 3.5 star review then. It's better than other pre-written adventures which normally come in at 2 stars. It's above average when compared to other adventures but not above average when compared to the Book of the Righteous, Oathbound or Judge Dredd! :)

The first of the Collector Series from Mongoose Publishing saw the Quintessential launch a line of class books but then it changed and we saw Quintessential race books and even though there are core classes and core races left untouched we find ourselves with The Quintessential Witch. So what on...