Category: RPG Reviews
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Starting Dungeons & Dragons: A Beginner’s Guide
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Helping people new to D&D figure out how to get started in the hobby.
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Adventure Review: The Feast of Tegny Wood
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A Cairn Adventure by Yochai Gal NOTE: Spoiler warning appears further down—this section is safe for players. This adventure is… I am a big fan of Cairn, Yochai Gal, and his…
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Adventure Review: Raiders of the Hidden Temple
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A review of Kelsey Dionne’s Shadowdark adventure, Raiders of the Hidden Temple
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The Less Dice the Better
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Why less dice-rolling makes for a more engaging TTRPG session.
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Designing Your Dungeon
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Last week, I wrote a lengthy treatise on the history of megadungeons–and what role they might play in your current TTRPG campaign. It’s my sense that Game Masters want most…
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Adventure Review: Rise of the Blood Olms
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NOTE: Spoiler warning appears further down—this section is safe for players. “CAS-2: Rise of the Blood Olms” is… As with CAS-1, Yochai states that this dungeon could be used by new…
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Adventure Review: Trouble in Twin Lakes
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An adventure review of Yochai Gal’s Trouble in Twin Lakes
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Fun games can be complex or simple.
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A contrast between Pendragon RPG and Mythic Bastionland shows how fun can be had in complexity or simplicity.
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So what’s the deal with Shadowdark?
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If you’re into TTRPGs and haven’t heard someone talk about Shadowdark… I’m guessing you either only play 5e or you’re really new to the hobby. Because honestly? I can’t go…
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Adventure Review: Withering Woods
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“Withering Woods” is a D&D 5e adventure module for low-level characters written by Þorsteinn Mar Gunnlaugsson for Swedish game publisher, Riotminds. Part of their new Fantasy Adventure Series, it was…
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X1 – The Isle of Dread
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The Isle of Dread may be the best adventure module I’ve ever read. Don’t get me wrong. I love, love, love The Village of Hommlet. Against the Cult of the…
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Review: A0 – Danger at Darkshelf Quarry
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When Against the Cult of the Reptile God sparked ongoing interest with two of my players in AD&D, I decided to take a whack at an ongoing campaign in that region of…
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Review: N1 – Against the Cult of the Reptile God
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I thought my readers might be interested in more direct reviews of published modules, since I’m running those almost exclusively in my home AD&D game. Since I stopped blogging just…