Tag Archives: RPG
Reviewing Art & Arcana: A Visual History
I didn’t know what to expect when I got my copy of Art & Arcana. I guess I expected an art book, which A&A technically qualifies as, but it’s also a lot more than that. I want to call it a history book but even that, while technically accurate, doesn’t feel right. Art and Arcana […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Spectacular Settlements
I talk quite a bit about world building and the importance of a living, breathing world in your tabletop RPGs. Spectacular Settlements is a comprehensive tool for building settlements in a way that will let the DM build fully realized settlements that can definitively answer not only common questions like “Who is in charge” and […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Dungeon Dreams
Dungeon Dreams is an indy game that blends the JRPG, Roguelike, Dating Sim genres and you can find it on Kickstarter now! All of those genres may sound like a lot to throw into one game and sounds exceptionally ambitious for an indy project, but having played the demo I can tell you that the […]
Turning the Gears: Party Reputation and NPC Reactions
An important part of good DMing is creating reasonable and realistic consequences for player’s actions. Not just in the sense of heroes getting experience and loot for killing the bad guys, but also in the reactions of the NPCs around them. Instinctively, we want to keep track of it in our heads, and let things […]
Tabletop Tales: A Sad, Sad Exalted Game
One of the best parts about RPGs is that you get to feel like a badass and some games, like Exalted, let you be a badass on a world-shaking scale. For those who don’t know, Exalted is a game by White Wolf where you play as literal demigods having adventuress in an extremely high fantasy […]
Five of D&D’s Most Bizarre Creatures (And How to Use Them)
When a game has as wide a range of monsters as Dungeons and Dragons, it’s inevitable that some enter common usage, and some are forgotten. In the weird in-between area, though, there are the weird ones that are remembered and recognized for their strangeness but either go unused or get thrown in for giggles without […]
Five Awesome RPGs for When You Need Something New
Dungeons and Dragons is pretty much the standard whenever you’re trying to form a new group. It makes sense, D&D is the original and it’s still the biggest brand in the industry even after 33 years. Today, though, we’re going to look at some RPGs to break out when you’re played out on raiding dungeons […]
Indie Game Examination: Children of Dust
Children of Dust is adventure module from PondStrider Games to be played in fifth edition Dungeons and Dragons set against the backdrop of the Deadworlds campaign setting, also by PondStrider Games. It is an adventure designed to introduce a new party of level 3 adventurers to a setting in which the world has, through some […]
Four Things That Made Final Fantasy Tactics the Perfect SRPG
Happy New Year everyone! I want to start the year off right, by talking about one of the few games that is, in my opinion, just about as close to perfect as a game can be. So let’s get started. Nearly 20 years ago Squaresoft released the actual perfect videogame in Final Fantasy Tactics. At […]
Video Game Investigations: Super Dungeon Tactics
Super Dungeon Tactics, for those that don’t know, is a tactical RPG video game based on the “Super Dungeon Explore” board game made by Soda Pop Minis. Super Dungeon Tactics was developed by Underbite Games and appears to be their first official video game (as it is the only game on their website). The trailer, […]
The Game Detective 