Author: Paco G. Jaen

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

CthulhuTech: Quick Start Rules

This lushly-presented – and free – set of Quick Start Rules serves as an elegant introduction to CthulhuTech, providing all you need to run an introductory game to see if it is something that will appeal to you and your group.

Conquest Of The Fallen Lands

This game is a tile-based romp where the players are heroic types who need to rid the countryside of all the nasties that tend to overrun said countrysides. You do this by retaking territories, which are comprised solely of the tiles themselves, and to retake a territory, you simply need to have enough soldiers to take that territory.

How to game on little energy

I am now ‘progressing’ into my mid-40s, and somehow, thanks to having tolerant gamers in my gaming group, am still able to game!! Admittedly, folks have been very flexible to help me (and Stuart) out in this regard….. Insane amounts of work (I teach social sciences and thus have tons of marking, and an ever shifting teaching / knowledge domain) coupled with commuting 2 hours a day….

Horrific Fears review

The short version is for all the people who purchased “Darkness & Dread” by Fantasy Flight Games in the 3.5.-days of old. This is an update of those rules to Pathfinder RPG – id est, you won’t really find new content within these pages.

Kobolds of the Fallen Halls Review

This offering in the Tribes line from Raging Swan Press creates its own dramatic tension from the beginning – an underground complex that is home to TWO separate bands of kobolds. Of course they are going to bicker, even if it wasn’t for the two dragons egging them on!