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There really are so many more useful RPG products out there than just rulebooks and setting modules. Certainly, rulebooks and settings represent the core products of nearly all role-playing game systems, but there’s a ton of other products which are often taken for granted that can really...

So it all began with the Deadlands RPG. That “Weird West” game system which began humbly back in the late 90s has grown to become quite a phenomena in the RPG community. From a single mash-up of genre of Horror in the Old West, Deadlands RPG has spawned a power-house generic roleplaying system...

Now that the three Core Rulebooks have been released for the new Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition), it seems a little strange that there is not more 3rd Party Published content out for this new version of the perennial RPG favorite. And yet, the majority of content one finds online is falls into...

4 out of 5 rating for Unframed: The Art of Improvisation for Game Masters Unframed: The Art of Improvisation for Game Masters is just one of those books that comes along and offers so many good ideas to the RP gaming community. It equips GMs with some great tools for handling a gaming group and...

Ask any serious gamer as to what drew her or him into a life-long avocation, and many of the answers will likely boil down to being inspired by this or that role-playing game or setting which inexplicably fired their imagination. For other gamers, close friends or family introduced the hobby to...

4 out of 5 rating for The Last Parsec: Scientorium The Last Parsec: Scientorium is a fantastic space opera setting, well suited for players who enjoy not only a good SciFi mystery, but is great for players who also enjoy exploration, action, danger, and adventure! The writing is imaginative and...

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Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds RPG rules have demonstrated time and again to be one of the most portable game systems around. Though its roots are founded in the Dead Lands RPG and its Tales of the Weird West, the system has provided the backbone of dozens of Official and Third Party...

4 out of 5 rating for Demon Cults: The Emerald Order Demon Cults: The Emerald Order has got some decent ideas in it. Granted it’s a lot of bare bones material and general information, but it does have some good thought behind it and some strong writing from the author. The layout is solid and...

As 2015 begins, it’s a good opportunity to take stock of one’s projects and make sure that the New Year can be a fresh start. As it happens, while taking that end-of-year assessment, it’s come to light that an RPG product sent in during last year's summer months did not get its moment in the...

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There are many sources of inspiration for creating heroic fantasy adventure campaigns, whether legends and mythology, pulp fiction or classic novels. Many GMs have their favorite touchstones when looking for ideas, sometimes trusting to a particular author, or thematic style, or heroic cycle...

5 out of 5 rating for Calidar, In Stranger Skies Calidar: In Stranger Skies is a really fascinating and unique world setting offered to the gaming community by a veteran RPG designer. The details about the Soltan Ephemeris and its planets and moons really transports the heroes to a wondrous new...

As the number of Heroic Fantasy RPGs have proliferated over the years, a myriad of fantasy worlds and settings have been created. While some world settings have been based upon classical Tolkien ideals, others have explored classic mythology, gothic horror, post-apocalyptic, and even...

4 out of 5 rating for Kobold Guide To Combat There is some amazing bits of RPG “wisdom” hidden in the pages of the Kobold Guide To Combat. The topics discussed on Combat in Role Playing Games here are wide-ranging and excellently essayed. Even veteran gamers are likely to glean a few new ideas...

This fall, Kobold Press has gathered essays from some of the brightest Game designers and theory-crafters into a new anthology. The Kobold Guide To Combat takes a look at the why’s and the how’s of Combat in Role-Playing Games from the authors of some favorite RPG systems! For some, Gaming...

4 out of 5 rating for Against the Slave Lords Overall, I was very impressed with Against the Slave Lords and think it has merit for any OSR gamers, as well as D&D fans of any edition. The adventures are fun, exciting, and are a good mix of combats, traps, and exploration. The new addition of...

It's kind of funny, but these arguments for and against alignments have been raging on and off since about 1978 when AD&D came out. Are they important to roleplay? They can be for some players, a hindrance to others. Can they be dispensed with? Sure, but it makes some spells a little hard to...

3 out of 5 rating for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game I've always been a huge fan of Marvel comics, and that made me really want to like the Marvel Superhero Roleplaying Basic Game, but I simply could not due to what the game actually offers to the comic book fan/roleplaying game...

5 out of 5 rating for Dungeon Crawl Classics Having played through the “old school” era of D&D, as well as numerous other fantasy RPG systems over the years, I can definitely say that Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG pushes all the right buttons for recreating that nostalgic feel of heroic fantasy...