A new show's out on Warhammer TV, and it's all about the Adepta Sororitas in the Order of the Sacred Rose. Oh, and Orks. It's called Penitence and I've started watching it this week. This is my review of episode 1, with only minor spoilers.
Thesion IV is presumably a planet that was once under I...
The Labyrinth Worldbook is Kobold Press's planar setting for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e variant. This is my review of chapter 6: Pantheon of the Labyrinth.
Like magic, I personally don't think you can ever have too many gods in a fantasy setting. I was always fascinated by mythology...
The Labyrinth Worldbook by Kobold Press is a source book for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e variant. This is my review of chapter 5: Magic, Spells, and Mysteries.
The first section of the chapter adds a bunch of vehicles to the game. That seems out of place, and I don't know why they did...
The Labyrinth Worldbook by Kobold Press is a source book for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e variant. This is my review of chapter 4: Heroes of the Labyrinth. It's the player options chapter.
As I write this, I'm just starting up a Labyrinth Adventures campaign with one of my gaming gro...
The Labyrinth Worldbook by Kobold Press is a source book for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e variant. This is my review of chapter 3: Factions of the Labyrinth.
First, let's talk about the Loxodon in the room. When Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica was released for 5th edition D&D, it acci...
The Labyrinth Worldbook is a source book by Kobold Press for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e variant. This is my review of chapter 2: Worlds of the Labyrinth.
Chapter 2 contains information about the major "worlds" of the Labyrinth, including the hub city known as The Smithy. Well, the na...
A few months ago, one of the players in my Sunday night DnD game couldn't make it to the game Normally we'd play any way, but the characters are all very high level and we were nearing the endgame, so we decided not to play without her. Instead, we played HeroQuest with the intent to see how much...
It's become a tradition of mine to fly up to Wellington for the annual KapCon RPG convention, and I did that again this year. This is my review of the event and the games I ran and played.
Convention culture
One of the best things about the conference is the people who attend. They make gaming...
I applied for a community grant from an organisation called Creative Communities to run a free miniature painting workshop. As the name of the organisation suggests, it's a grant specifically to foster creativity in your community, and luckily the committee agreed with me that the admittedly niche...
I've been actively blogging since 2011 and a tech podcaster since 2006. That's basically 20 years of publishing content, of admittedly variable quality and esoterism, on the world-wide web and other online destinations (such as Gopher). This annual report looks at some trends and influences on w...
I miss magazines, and I say that knowing that there are still magazines being published. While there are a few gaming magazines today, there used to be far more of them, and yet I still couldn't get enough. On my lunch break at work, I used to walk over to a book store (this was back when there were...
One of my all-time favourite monsters is lizard people. They're classic villains, deceptive and insidious, deathly fatalistic, and they fit neatly into fantasy, modern settings, and sci-fi. For that reason, it's no surprise that when I was in the market for an alien army to add to my roleplaying and...
For many people, there was a singular gateway into the tabletop roleplaying hobby. Regardless of whether you started tabletop roleplaying games after playing a solo game book, a cRPG, as a graduation from board games, after watching live plays, or by being inducted into somebody's gaming group, it a...
Well I bought the Raumjager Infantry kit from Wargames Atlantic. They're soldiers with ill-fitting trousers and jackets, stunted guns, and awkward poses. This is my review of the product.
There's no easy way to say this, but I dislike this model kit. I bought it because I needed a bunch of raide...
I needed some generic monsters for a campaign I was running. I was running campaigns back to back, and I wanted to make them feel distinct from one another. I didn't want to re-use the same 2 enemy armies I'd already used, and I'd already used an army that normally is an ally as an opposing force. I...
For some RPG players, the concept of building a character seems like an unecessary chore. Sometimes I agree, and I happily admit to a healthy appreciation of pre-generated characters. Because pregenerated characters are possible, some people might wonder why they would ever bother building a chara...