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Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer

By Eric Newland “Good and evil, there is never one without the other.” – Merlin What do you get when you have a Fallen God, Monsters, machines, weapons and warriors. Ascension, baby! Here is my review. Components: This game is well put together. Let me do a run down. *The Game board – It’s a…
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SHADOW, SWORD, & SPELL

By Zachary Houghton Recently, I had the opportunity to play and review the newest role-playing game from Rogue Games, Shadow, Sword, & Spell (SS&S) .  This game is designed with an eye towards pulpy, human-centric fantasy, with easily learned rules and a low price tag £8.79 for the printed version. Let’s see how well it…
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Constantinopolis

By Jeremy Salinas On my “Want to Purchase” list of GenCon 2010 releases, Constantinopolis was at the very bottom, teetering on the edge of “falling off”completely. In fact, as I perused the FFG Booth on Thursday afternoon while waiting patiently in line to pick up my copies of DungeonQuest and Dust Tactics, I noticed on…
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Legends of Anglerre : FATE

Legends of Anglerre shoves a massive battle axe in the hands of the Ennie-award nominated Starblazer Adventures roleplaying game. Play action-packed fantasy using the award-winning FATE RPG system: gritty adventurers on paths to greatness; epic heroes leading mighty armies and noble kingdoms; mythic questers traversing the many planes and battling the gods themselves – and…
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The Lurker at the Threshold

So the seventh Arkham Horror expansion was released recently; the fourth of the “small box” expansions. Having played with it a few times now, I believe it is the best of the small boxes, but I have to admit that’s not necessarily saying much… Much as I love Arkham Horror and the system as a whole, I’ve never been a huge fan of the small box expansions.