Every new game takes a certain amount of time to click into place within my brain – for there to be a sudden moment of focus that has me muttering “so that’s how it works.” With Band of Blades this process was agonisingly slow.
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For a game that revels in being dark, dingy and blood-spattered there’s something strangely charming about Zweihander.
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To enjoy Pathfinder 2E is to enjoy tinkering with mechanics as much as stories; to have fun flicking through sourcebooks and cackling about all the cool heroes you can brew with them.
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Cyberpunk has always billed itself as a game about attitude, and this certainly rings true for the Red edition’s Jumpstart Kit.
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If nothing else, Sea of Thieves deserves credit for trying something truly unexpected, opting for a rules-lite storytelling game rather than a D&D-clone sprinkled with parrots and peg-legs. It’s a shame, then, that the finished package doesn’t quite hit the spot.
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A rock-solid slice of hard-ish sci-fi married to a system that offers plenty of crunchy options without drowning folks in tables, charts and sub-rules.
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When we describe something as ‘functional’ it’s usually meant as a criticism, but when applied to the Warhammer Fantasy Starter Set it’s meant as a solid endorsement.
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Depending on your needs Ghosts of Saltmarsh can form the spine of an entire campaign or be pulled apart for one-off adventures, each of which are solidly built and stuffed to the gills with imagination.
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Very few games surprise me in the way that John Carter of Mars did. In just a few hours its over-the-top heroics and shameless power fantasy had completely captured my imagination.
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Most of the time that politics and gaming cross paths the overlap is subtle. Not this time.
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