Author: Paco G. Jaen

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Troglodytes of the Tentacled One

By Megan Robertson Troglodytes of the Tentacled One is written in the Lovecraftian style of elder horrors lurking beyond the light of civilisation in the dark, wild places of the world. Publisher’s blurb: “In the dark, wild places far below the wave-flecked flanks of a forlorn, wave-lashed island lurk the degenerate troglodytes of the Tentacled…
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Seafarers Of Catan Expansions review

By Chris Bowler So, as promised, every other week here at Unboxed will now be Expansion Week. I like my expansions, I know that not everybody does, but as I tend to end up playing the same games time and again, I like to have a large number of options and variants so that I…
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Paizo Announces RPG Superstar™ 2011 Top 32

January 18, 2011 (Redmond, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing today announced the finalists for RPG Superstar, the largest open-call tabletop roleplaying game design contest in history. Judges Sean K Reynolds, Ryan Dancey, Neil Spicer, and Mark Moreland selected the Top 32 from a record number of submissions in an initial contest to design a wondrous item…
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Secrets of the Primordial Forest

By Thilo Graf This pdf by Rite Publishing is 10 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD and 2 pages ads. That leaves 5 pages of content. The content starts with an aptly-written, short introduction to the matter at hand, the tome of Merenal. 4 new spells from this ancient…
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Triplica review

By Paco Garcia Jaen Sometimes one just wants a simple game without much complications and that can be played in minutes. From time to time a respite from long and complex rules and games sessions that have to last 1/2 day for a resolution to be found. Now if I tell you that playing Tic-Tac-Toe…
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