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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Dogs of Hades : Savage Worlds

Garden of Athena is a planet of adventures among the ancient Greeks… but in the far future, with energy spears and Pulse shields. Experience science fiction with epic politics, and epic battles to make all the Greek poets proud. Dogs of Hades is a setting in the Suzerain universe.

Icons Superpowered Roleplaying

Steve Kenson, the designer of the best-selling Mutants & Masterminds delivers a superpowered new role-playing game, inspired by the fast-playing old-school games and the new generation of narrative role-play! Within its pages are complete rules for character creation, abilities and powers, random adventure generation, a rogue’s gallery of villains, a complete adventure and all the…
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Smallville Review

Apparently I review a lot of supers games these days, and the latest in that field is the Smallville RPG, newly released in PDF for $20 at RPGNow, and available in hardcopy at GenCon for $40. I’ll be honest…I’m not a big fan of the show.  I tried watching it in the early seasons, but got…
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Orcs of Stonefang Pass, a review

This is more like it for a game and a company the calibre ofDungeons and Dragons andWizards of the Coast. Although my previous posting about the Dark Sun adventure was far from complimentary,  WOTC has proven they can do it right when they want to. For starters the cover illustration is by one of the…
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Dark Sun: Fury of the Wastewalker

Dark Sun Let me put one thing straight from the moment go. I have been praying ( yes, praying) for Dark Sun to come back to publishing since the moment it was abandoned over a decade ago. It was my first setting I actually run when I was a young man and it was the…
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