Author: Paco G. Jaen

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Alien Frontier Review

The premise of Alien Frontiers is that two to four players are all vying to colonize a planet for their own evil designs, using resources and orbital stations to produce the colonies to be built in eight geographical regions of varying strategic value. Using a fleet of ships, which are represented by D6 dice, you can claim docking ports on each orbital station to use the stations’ abilities to both further your cause as well as deny your opponents the opportunity to use the station that you’ve chosen.

Interview with Lou Agresta

Hello everybody, Endzeitgeist speaking once again, this time not with a review, but with an interview on Lou Agresta’s new project

Rite Publishing–Races review

Hello everybody once again! With the Questhaven patronage project approaching commission, I’m going to take a closer look at all the race-books published by Rite Publishing for PFRPG so far.

Beware the Harpies of Pazuzu’s Fury!

Raging Swan today released the fourth instalment in its TRIBES line. Preceded by Bleached Skull Gnolls, Hobgoblins of the Mailed Fist and Brethren of the Crimson Altar, Pazuzu’s Fury details a savage tribe of harpies spawned by Pazuzu himself. Pazuzu’s Fury is available as an extensively bookmarked 20-page PDF for only $2.99 from the Paizo…
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Blood Moon Rising

For reasons I’ve never completely grasped, there have always been far more low-level adventures than mid- to high-level ones. I suppose it has a lot to do with the fewer number of variables in play when dealing with 1st to 3rd-level characters compared to, say, 9th to 12th-level characters, especially in old school RPGs, where mechanical balance isn’t a significant aspect of their design.