Author: Paco G. Jaen

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CthulhuTech: Core Book

Enter a world rich and strange – even the cover art suggests this even before you read a word! But it’s stranger – and scarier – that you might imagine. The opening piece of fiction sets the scene: a heady mix of warfare, implacable enemies, fighting machines… and yet at the core human beings, maybe a bit different but still real people who care, who love, who hate… and have nightmares afterwards.

The Secrets of Martial Mastery

This pdf is 18 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD and two pages of advertisements. That leaves us with 13 pages of content, let’s get it on. The Secrets of Martial Mastery contains a plethora of new combat manoeuvres akin to classics like feint and bull rush. (7 pages) The new manoeuvres are:

A World of Difference

Too often, game masters design their worlds around “the basics”. Elves inhabit the woods; dwarves live in the mountains. While this may have worked well for Tolkien, it has simply been done to death. Oh, it can be nice at first, because everyone can easily figure their background, but eventually it gets dull. Why not start out with a new beginning?

30 Unique Magical Blades review

This full-color pdf is 16 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages ads, 1 page SRD, leaving 11 pages for the 30 magical blades. Enough to make them “unique” as per the premise of the book? We’ll see.

Galaxy’s Edge review

After playing the amazingly fun “Conquest of the Fallen Lands”, I started looking into the publisher, Assa Games, to see what they’re all about. It turns out that it is essentially a two-man show, and they had produced a second game after Fallen Lands.

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