Where other games have supplements that feel like sequels or straight-up improvements to the base product, reading the Tome of Mysteries feels like exploring the special edition of your favourite movie – complete with special features and a full directors’ cut.
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The first full-size sourcebook for Pathfinder 2E isn’t going to break any games wide open, but it does an incredible job of offering both a slab of cool, creative character options and expanding players’ abilities to connect with the shared fantasy world of Golarion.
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In a time where most RPG content turns up as a formless PDF there’s something rather wonderful about flicking through the weighty pages of Dungeons on a Dime’s Blood in the Water. However, while it’s a beautiful little book supported with solid writing, a messy structure makes running the adventure a trickier task than you’d hope
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Modiphius has announced plans to grow its solid stable of adaptations and licenses with Homeworld: Revelations, a tabletop take on the classic sci-fi strategy videogame. The original Homeworld came out for the PC just over 20 years ago, with the fifth game in the series – rather confusingly known as Homeworld 3 – slated for a 2022 release. The games
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Depending on how you say it, the word “lightweight” can have a handful of meanings – some good, some bad. Every single one of them applies to Teens in Space.
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Isn’t it kind of weird that trying to read RPGs on our phones has always been a crappy experience, full of pinch-zooming into columns and blindly scrolling in search of the rule you need? Well, the folks behind Zweihander seem to think so, and are showing off what they think phone-friendly RPGs should look like with a new take on their core rulebook.
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Amidst the sea of D&D hacks washing about the RPG bookshelves, Entromancy stands out for a couple of reasons. The first is it’s setting, which is obviously inspired by Shadowrun’s mashed-up take on fantasy and cyberpunk, but it isn’t until you crack the book open that you find its most interesting quality – brevity.
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“The Boros banner stands tall even if its bearer doesn’t.” Those words make up the flavour text on the Magic the Gathering card ‘Goblin Banneret’, and they’re a small but vital part of explaining how a bunch of trading cards completely reshaped the way I think about an iconic RPG monster. Importantly, I don’t really think of them as monsters.
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If you had told me that one day I’d be sitting at my desk, trying to write a serious article about a tabletop RPG produced by a fast-food chain I would have wondered what weird alternate dimension you’d crawled out of, and probably smacked you with a shovel. And yet here we are, taking a look at Feast of Legends, a D&D-Lite RPG about fighting the evil forces of frozen beef using war-skillets.
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If you’ve ever pawed through the back of the Player’s Handbook you’ll know that D&D 5E isn’t exactly lacking for spells, but do you ever wish you just had a few more options? Well, that’s exactly what Kobold Press is hoping to achieve with it’s Deep Magic sourcebook.
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