Review: Teens in Space
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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Reckless Heroics: My Love for Magic the Gathering’s Goblins
“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.
Read morePreview: Root – The Tabletop RPG
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover nor an RPG by its art direction, but there’s no denying that I was first drawn to Root: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game by its beautiful design.
Read moreReview: Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG
For a game that revels in being dark, dingy and blood-spattered there’s something strangely charming about Zweihander.
Read moreReview: Pathfinder 2E
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.
Read moreReview: Sea of Thieves RPG
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.
Read moreReview: Overlight
Splashes of vivid colour and whirling imagination run through the heart of Overlight, adding countless twists and turns to the standard fantasy RPG set-up. For all its artistic flair, however, the game itself sometimes struggles to find substance amidst the generous heapings of style. The quirky side of Overlight begins with its setting, a dreamlike world built from seven floating continents stacked up
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