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Magic swords... Zzzzz Zzz, oh? Huh? Let me wake up and try again. It’s not just that I don’t find books filled with magic swords and staves boring, I think they’re one of the faults AD&D didn’t manage to shake in its evolution to d20. I hate the fact that challenge ratings /assume/ characters...

Cry Havoc isn’t what I had hoped a War Event Book would be. That’s my bad news. I was hoping for a nicely abstracted system that could quickly handle any numbers of creatures, in a magic wielding fantasy battle and allow the PCs or important NPCs to stand out. I wanted to know what the side...

It’s an old style dungeon crawl. The 32-paged PDF product even refers to dungeon level one and two. You’d probably guess it was a dungeon crawl rather quickly. The Prince is getting adventurers to empty the hills of monsters and explore ancient ruins. The ruins? The ruins are remains of castles...

There's no wow factor. Nothing in the book makes me wish I'd thought of that. It is, underneath it all, just another class book.

I’ve a funny story about Blood and Guts: Modern Military. In an instant messenger conversation an American friend recounted the heroics from his tabletop RPG the previous night, his commando had leapt from a roof, slit the throat of a terrorist on guard duty, sprayed machine gun fire through the...

It seems like an age since I’ve looked at a Slayer’s Guide but if we’re only just at The Slayer’s Guide to Goblins then there must be plenty of mileage left in the series. Goblins are green, right? No, of course not. Goblins are imaginary creatures. I imagine them as green, though. The Monster...

I tend to read supplements twice before attempting to review them. The first time through Encyclopaedia Arcane: Conjuration I thought the book did well enough, it would make the "does what it needs to do" mark and settle about there. Certain things from the book, new types of spells...

Encyclopaedia Arcane: Familiars is responsible for one of _those_ moments. The d20 sceptical little brother was visiting, he picked up the book from the to-review pile, flicked through it and commented, "Oh, you can have a Tyrannosaurus as a familiar now." I hadn’t actually read the book at...

It’s ever so slightly ironic that Into The Green is one of the first Bastion Press products to stray from the glossy colour format and into black and white. The decision seems like a fair call. If you’re re-aligning your publishing style to better suit industry tastes and buying habits then I...

The Unholy Warrior’s Handbook is part of Green Ronin’s Master Class series but the book’s connection to the widely successful and hugely popular The Book of the Righteous can not be understated. The Book of the Righteous introduced the Holy Warrior and gamers quickly adopted the class. If the...

Okay. To be fair, Malladin’s Gate don’t quite rank as the most famous d20 company but I’ve only heard effusive praise for them from the people in the know. Why? The small company manages to walk that terribly fine line between familiar D&D style fantasy and something a bit different. Their...

The Races of Renown series from Green Ronin presents Fang & Fury for their Vampire race book offering. If the 80-paged book seems slim when it’s on the shelf then pick it up and flick through the pages. The text size is small and the density good. Green Ronin really are giving you value for...

Ooo! Shiny! Purple! I’m not describing some mythic twenty-sided die but airing my first impressions of the new Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game. Unlike the new d20 license from Mongoose Publishing this review does not have the luxury of a forward from J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski admits his own...

"You’ve read the book, now play the game!" announces the back of this mystery d20 product. What could the book be? It’ll have to be something that publisher Green Ronin is confidant that most gamers will have read. Lord of the Rings d20? Nope. Not that. It’s a more popular book than the Tolkien...

"This book is not meant to be read cover-to-cover." I think that’s true of many rpg supplements but Throwing Dice Games’ Character Customization is the only one that I can think of that makes the point of saying so. With the aim of writing a solid review I sat down, ignored the advice and read...

Following on from Beyond the Walls in the Foul Locales series we have Behind the Gates. Behind the Gates aims to provide interesting locations for small towns, villages, hamlets and small communities. There are all sorts of things to stress there. This isn’t a book of adventures; it’s a book of...

This is nice. This is good. It seems like an age since I’ve been able to say, "Hey guys. Come have a look at this." – somebody else always seems to beat me to it. As I look around the Net I can’t see many other people talking about Lunar Knights or Interactive Design Adventures. That’s a shame...

Twice the Arcane Strife for the price. You get two editions of the PDF when you buy one, an on screen version and a printer friendly version. This is a good thing. The on screen version is as about as printer unfriendly as you can get. The background to the PDF isn’t plain paper white but...

I'd popped by those sites before grabbing space on the forums here. You've confirmed that that's all there is which is what I was looking for. (and as promised) T-hanks! P.S. They're both great sites.

Let me sum up by cutting'n'pasting my email. You can see how easily I was tricked! ">> ...if you get the chance, BBC 4 is showing 'Lost in La Mancha' at 9pm. Worth a look. > T-hanks. I'll probably watch that instead of CNX's chop-socky movie. In return, you can tell me when the 3e Planescape...