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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Thumbing Through Zweihander’s Phone-Friendly New Design
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.
Read moreReview: Entromancy
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.
Read moreReckless 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 moreWendy’s Feast of Legends: Great Advert, Baffling RPG
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.
Read morePreview: Heart – The City Beneath
Have you ever thought we throw ‘dungeon’ around a little too casually? That it shouldn’t conjure up clean stone corridors perfectly sized for heroes marching two abreast, brimming with treasure and level-appropriate villains, but rather something truly foul, dark and inscrutable?
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: D&D Essentials Kit
This affordable little box set may not be the most exciting or revolutionary RPG product in the world, but hot damn it’s good at getting new players rolling dice, delving dungeons and having plain, simple fun.
Read moreReview: Band of Blades
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.
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.
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