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Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

So What’s It Called, Anyway?

By Thilo Graf This pdf from Raging Swan Press is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside the front cover, 3 pages of editorial/ToC, 1 page back cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement, leaving 7 pages for the content, so what is this about? Every DM knows the drill: How…
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The D&D Business; Or The Impossible Art of Trying to Make Everyone Happy

One of my most admired RPG writers and players of all time is Monte Cook. Monte’s understanding of setting, intrigue, balance and the relationship with the player is pretty amazing. His ability to actually come up with new ideas that can be brought to fruition is also pretty staggering.

Player’s Options – Aasimar, Tieflings and elemental Templates

By Thilo Graf This pdf from 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming is 14 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial and 1 page SRD, leaving 11 pages of content, so let’s check them out, shall we? There is a distinct lack in planar player races in PFRPG as I write this, a lack 4…
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Faux-Cabulary review

Fwaposaurus. Hypobushy. Bangoism… What would appear to be a keyboard gone mad or a writer gone drunk, it’s nothing else than the new nouns for new things you never thought needed a name. And what fun is to make them!

Should Players Give Smaller CCG’s a Chance?

I have made friends with and been part of some CCG companies in the past few years. In this time I have noticed the same problem for these upstart CCG companies. Thought the games are cool and the artwork is awesome, players just don’t seem to want to give new games a chance. I asked myself and players, Why?