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This review is based on the pre-print copy of The Village of Oester. I’m only pointing that out in case a disgruntled employee at the printers decides to tip a bucket of yellow paint into the press at the last minute. I’ve seen pre-print copies from Open World Press before and they always turn...

Anger of Angels is a d20 supplement all about angels (you guessed, huh?) from Malhavoc Press and by Sean K Reynolds. It’s a PDF at the minute; I dare say a paperback will be along shortly. Some people will go buy this supplement because of the d20 logo, others because of the Malhavoc logo and...

I was really looking forward to Skull & Bones. This tends to doom the book. My expectations are generally high, too high, and this is enough to take the shine off an otherwise brilliant book. I’m disappointed that Skull & Bones doesn’t have more illustrations in the Hollywood sexy pirate style...

I've just got a job! Woo! Now. Now. I'm not off topic. Not really. The bosses I work for charge silly amounts of money per hour. Whenever they have to do something the first question they ask themselves is "is it worth my time?". In other words is it worth spending hours doing something to save...

The Alea Publishing Group are one of the new generation of d20 publishers to spring up. They don’t have a 3.0 edition legacy nor do they have 3.0 edition baggage either. Their PDF d20 products are entirely 3.5 and so, hopefully, everything will be smoothly cross compatible. Mind you, having said...

Let’s look at this GM screen. $20 is too much for a three paged screen, with misaligned tables and an adventure based around an ill cow. That’s some other GM screen though, one I reviewed just a few weeks ago. I’m not going to link to that review, that would be rubbing salt into the wounds...

The Taverner’s Trusty Tome is one of those RPG supplements I’d probably never buy as a book; unless it was a joke gift to a roleplaying friend. It’s exactly the sort of product I’d be tempted to buy as a PDF. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s the sort of thing to make a session unforgettable. The...

Arcana Unearthed, The Diamond Throne, Dor-Erthenos or Serran. The campaign setting for Monte Cook’s variant d20 player’s handbook (and run away success) can be called many things. We can smile wryly because this is a setting where truenames are important. The Diamond Throne is a large area, a...

There's a comment about public opinion above this post in the thread. That inspired me to go check on the Valar opinion poll I was running in one issue of Echoes from the Wyrd. I thought I'd a) quickly set up an opinion poll about this issue in this week's Echo and b) share the current Valar...

* This review has been written by guest reviewer and Freeport DM Caliban's Toybox. "FLIPPANT INTRODUCTION:" Oh look. "Tales of Freeport." Oh look. Ready to run d20 adventures. With "plots and locations" ready for you to "drop into" your own campaign. (So, if I DROP ADVENTURE INTO PIT, my...

"I do not know what weapons will be used in World War III, but I assure you that World World IV will be fought with stones. " -Albert Einstein There. I thought I’d begin with one of my all-time favourite quotes simply because it comes early in the Survivor's Handbook. This book is the first...

Oh! Darwin’s World just seems to keep on growing. It isn’t just we’re now looking at a d20 modern edition of the rules in the form of Darwin’s World 2 but that I had thought the Survivor’s Handbook was the first of two parts and now I think it’s the first of three. This is a review of the...

In many ways Wrack & Ruin marks a special moment for Oathbound. The cleverness, the flexibility, the flavour and the sheer scope of this colourful high fantasy setting come together in one distinguished product. Wrack & Ruin just bristles with life, it is packed to the hilt with information...

I like the abstraction in the d20 rule mechanics. Torn Asunder is a Critical Hit system which has the honour of awarding +4 AC to anyone wearing a codpiece. Actually, to be fair, it’s only +4AC in response to any called shots to the protected area – but that didn’t stop me chuckling when I...

Nightmare. Horror. Disaster. The last thing I saw before my hard disk gave up the ghost was the email Amazon voucher which would have bought me Arcana Unearthed. It’s a big hardback book and unlucky, unemployed, webmasters won’t be the only people in search of affordable access to Monte Cook’s...

I’ve not yet read Arcana Unearthed but the PDF trilogy of Way of the Sword, Way of the Staff and Grimoire are there to give poor people like me the core chunks of the book. I read Way of the Sword first (it has the lower publisher number) and although the missing links into the full version of...

The Arcana Unearthed: Grimoire is very good. The PDF is the last of three sizable chunks from Arcana Unearthed. It isn’t a supplement; it’s the magic rules and spells from the hardback. You don’t need any other of the Arcana Unearthed products to use this one but there are references to classes...

I’ve come across Monsters of the Mind before I’ve read Mindshadows Mythic Vistas campaign setting from Green Ronin. I think that’s because, at the time of writing, Mindshadows hasn’t been released. By accident or by design this has served to turn Monsters of the Mind into a rather successful...

The battle grid doesn't appeal to me either - but for entirely different reasons! :)

There’s some subtle clues on the front of Character Record Folio that the d20 product one to consider. The "Now 3.5 Updated!" is a pretty good clue, even the Green Ronin logo is a fair guarantee of quality but perhaps the biggest clue is the Origins Award Winner badge. Actually, since we were...