Author: Paco G. Jaen

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

StarCraft: The Board Game detailed review

By Daniel Burgess Greetings all, thanks for taking some time to check out my review of Starcraft: The Board Game. I will review each component of the game, in broken down paragraphs and then give my over all opinion on the game. –COMPONENTS This game ships with plenty of components! No question that if someone…
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30 Rings of Defence by Rite Publishing

This pdf is 12 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages ads and 1 page SRD, leaving 7 pages of content. The first page lists the rings in a huge table, complete with old-school 1d%-rolls and prices – a nice nod for grognards. The rings range from 400GP to 120.000 GP.

Immersion in Games

Games, for the most part, have a theme. Many games are designed entirely around involving players in their theme. RPGs form the lion’s share of these, and the remainder form a category that is commonly referred to as Ameritrash (this isn’t a derogatory term in most circles, despite the sound of it).

Interview with Brandon Pelok from PK Cards

With the large amount of new CCG’s released every year at Gen Con, I have found it hard to find info about these games and their creators. In my home town one of these new companies exists, PK Cards created In Mentor, Ohio. I have the pleasure of speaking with Brandon Pelok about once a week. On this visit I decided to put him in the hot seat.

Legendary Blades

This pdf is 42 pages long, 1 page front cover/editorial/ToC, 4 pages SRD and 1 page of thanks for the feedback. That leaves 36 pages of content for $3.00! That is an awesome bang-for-buck-ratio. Now let’s take a look at whether the content suffers from the low price.