Tag: fighting

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The Secrets of Tactical Archetypes

By Thilo Graf  This pdf from Rite Publishing is 12 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD and 2 pages of advertisements, leaving 7 pages of content for the new archetypes, so what exactly do we get? Essentially exactly what we would expect from such a file – we get…
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Total Rumble Review

I think I am reaching the conclusion that I like cards games a lot more than I thought. Don’t get me wrong, I am partial to an sort of games, and Ameritrash does get my attention more often than not. Can’t help it… miniatures, brightly coloured boards, tons of pieces. Even with near to impossible to understand mechanics and not very well written rules, I still like them.

Aquelarre review

Medieval times sucked. Make no mistake. Living in the middle ages was horrible horrible horrible. For starters you didn’t have boardgames, role playing games and barely a few card games. Social Security was a joke. Public transport was atrocious. The tax system total chaos. Oh, and Internet connection was just not right. Not nice!

Masters of Disguise

By Thilo Graf  This pdf from Spes Magna Games is 29 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 2 pages of SRD, leaving 15 pages of new content, so let’s dig in! The pdf kicks off with an aptly-written introduction to why this pdf was created in the first place and subsequently goes…
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BattleCon gets in for a good Kickstarter

BattleCON (short for Battle Connection) a head to head fighting game where two players take on different characters and attempt to defeat one another in single combat. It mirrors the strategy and tactics of a console fighting game like Street Fighter, BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, or Virtua Fighter. You may have seen other games like that before. The idea isn’t revolutionary, but the gameplay is. Here’s a breakdown.