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The Arthurian Campaign Guide is the second part of the Legends of Excalibur bundle from RPGObjects. The first half - yet entirely self contained - of the pair is the Knight's Handbook. You'll find already reviewed. Ironically enough, the Arthurian Campaign Guide begins by looking at what it...

This isn’t just a review of the second Quintessential Fighter, oh no, this is a review of The Quintessential Fighter II … Book One. There could be another. Or does "book one" refer to the Advanced Tactics sub-heading? Ah yes, that’s it. This isn’t a Collector Series book, it’s the first of the...

There can be a lot of snobbery amongst gamers. There are some gamers who’d freely mock the "roleplaying" abilities of the average d20 gamer (or their perception of one) but they’re also the sort of gamer who wouldn’t be comfortable being called a gamer. I think, perhaps, we’re talking about...

There aren’t that many publishers catering to the d20 modern market at all. The Game Mechanics are certainly one of them, they have the advantage of their association with Green Ronin and of their initial d20 modern experience at Wizards of the Coast. There’s also RPGObjects who publisher first...

Just a little disclaimer to begin with; this review is based off a PDF copy of Urban Designs: New Glory Navy Base and the New Glory Navy Base you’ll buy will be a paper product. What does this mean? Very little. I’ve seen PDF copies of print products before and know what, if anything, is likely...

The Last Rites of the Black Guard is a professional d20 Modern adventure. That makes it a rare supplement. It’s a horror too; twice as rare. In many respects Last Rites is something new. It’s by 12 to Midnight and they’re not quite (not yet) the highest profile d20 publisher out there. This...

This is the first review I’ve written in nearly, gosh, nearly a month. So, what happened and what actually does it have to do with Chaositech? I read Chaositech one night and have been ill ever since. In fact, even as I type there’s an unholy amount of slime coming from somewhere. Will it never...

As I’ll tell anyone who foolishly gets close enough to listen I’m only just shaking off a long and linger sickness. As I’ll point out to any author, publisher or wyrdling who accidentally gets close enough to listen; this means that my whole GameWyrd schedule has been delayed beyond recognition...

"Heyoka Studios rejects all claims of liability associated with acts performed after you read this book. We have no liability for acts performed with, but not limited to, this book, knives, bats, home made PVC claymores, those shuriken you buy from Army/Navy stores, beer bottles, tequila, freaky...

I like the regal side to fantasy. Give me courtly intrigue. Give me terse diplomatic relations with the Dwarf Mountain Kingdom and a cold war style standoff with barely secretive cross-border raids with the Hobgoblin Empire to the West. For this sort of game you need nobles; these "nobles" might...

Vigilance was one of, if not, the first d20 superhero games to hit the market. It was Vigilance Press' flagship product and it came out first as a PDF and then as a paperback. This is a review of Blood and Vigilance. Charles Rice, author of Vigilance, has been writing for RPGObject's d20 "Blood...

I was really looking forward to Mindshadows. It wasn’t so much the promise of a psionics heavy campaign world that had whet my appetite but the flavour seeping through the crunch of the bestiary Monsters of the Mind. Monsters of the Mind managed to do that "similar but spookily slightly...

The Heroes of High Favor is a d20 series that seems to provoke comments like "You’ll either love the series or hate it" – but it’s not true. I wasn’t enamoured with the Heroes of High Favor: Dwarves much but I really did like the Heroes of High Favor: Half-orcs. The Heroes of High Favor have a...

About a year ago I reviewed Bane of the Salt Fen Lich from Heathen Oracle. It was a pre-written adventure and I think most pre-written adventures are as original as a book of fantasy d20 prestige classes. From Novice to Master: The Manual of Classes is a PDF full of prestige classes. But wait...

When I say that RPGObjects are the company producing the best d20 Modern material there are a lot of people who will agree with me. It isn’t just products like Modern Backdrops, which presses all my happy buttons, that leads me to statements like that. RPGObjects has a history of quality d20...

DarkLore is really good. It’s really good. Don’t say, "Malladin Who?" or "Who’s Gate? What? Where?" say, "DarkLore is really good". This isn’t Malladin’s Gate first product. The small company has been praised for their sharply designed Forgotten Heroes and Academy Handbook series. I’ll be...

Occasionally a lucky reviewer will discover that a fulfilment house, people who work for and with a whole bunch of publishers, has sent a package of new supplements and games to review. You can tell when reviewers might have received the same package because they start to review the same bunch...

The Modern Player’s Companion is a post Urban Arcana supplement. In other words, this The Game Mechanics d20 modern supplement has advanced classes and prestige classes in it. We’re not quite at the many thousand supplemental classes that pepper the fantasy d20 landscape but if I hadn’t intended...

No. I’m not here to gush about Crooks! Nevertheless, I am here to tell you that it’s a wonderful book. Green Ronin’s Mutants and Masterminds has been the best game to date to say "So long and thanks for all the fish" to the d20 logo. The colourful, slick and professional superheroes d20 based...

This review is taken from the final draft of the The Hamlet of Thumble the day before it goes to the printers. Baring demon possessed printing machines, alien ink or yellow on white formatting choices we can be confident that this review represents a fair set of comments on the final product...