When I started playing Dungeoneer back in 2014, I correctly assumed that you were meant to add your Movement attribute to Movement Threat checks. I made this assumption because you added your other 2 attributes (Melee and Magic) to checks related to them. This blog post exists exclusively to rei...
I design dungeons in idle time, and sometimes I even run them. I also run lots of dungeons other people have designed. In both scenarios, there are times when I encounter a thing in the design of the dungeon that makes it suddenly complex to run. I tend to be mindful, now, of this when I create my o...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set **Haunted Woods of Malthorin). In this post, I review its gameplay.
Hanted Woods of Malthorin is a small Dungeoneer deck, with just 55 cards in it. This has a fex different effects on gameplay. First, i...
Many mechanics in D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2 are exactly the same. There are a few, however, that differ substantially, and oddly I don't see much discussion about it online. This blog post is my effort to remedy that.
Proficiency isn't global
In 5e, you have exactly one Proficiency Bonus. It start...
I love dungeon crawls, and I enjoy Fantasy Flight board games, and I'm a fan and player of Warhammer. What if there was a way to combine all 3 of these interests into a single experience? Well, there is, and it's called Warhammer Quest Adventure Card Game, published by Fantasy Flight back in 2015....
I was introduced to Flesh and Blood (FaB) a few years ago when a card merchant included a freebie FaB card in my order of RPG books. The card seemed interesting to me, so I bought a small starter set with 2 pre-constructed decks. I didn't know how to play and I had no one to play with anyway, so i...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set Dragons of the Forsaken Desert. In this blog post, I review the gameplay of the set.
Some Dungeoneer sets are highly evocative to me, which I think is laregely down to personal preferences and nostalgi...
Roleplaying games and wargames have drifted apart considerably over the past several decades, but they still retain common elements that sometimes go unnoticed. I've told people that roleplaying games were invented as a sort of alternate format for wargaming, but it doesn't resonate for someone who...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord set. In this post, I review the set as a game. To be fair, the mechanics of Dungeoneer sets don't vary all that much, but I want to at least look at what kind experience each set creates...
Me and my players used to wonder about why numbers get so big in Pathfinder. Any Pathfinder player knows that rolls of 35 and 45 aren't uncommon at high levels. It's tempting to fall into the assumption that any big number is the same as a small number once you've found the lowest common denominator...
Warhammer is so big that it can be hard to know where to start, or even if you want to start. Warhammer Academy is a new initiative from Games Workshop to shepherd people into Warhammer 40,000 through structured videos lessons and tutorials, in the style of a MOOC (massive open online course.) I...
Issue 518 of White Dwarf published a chariot racing expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar called Wasteland Death Race. The game rules are just 3 pages, with 4 pages of chariot and driver build options, and 2 pages for a scenario. I don't really play Age of Sigmar, but the game seems pretty...
Models by Games Workshop tend to be humanoid, including humans, elves, and dwarves. However, Games Workshop does release some monsters and beasts as model kits, or included within model kits. This blog post is a list of all the monsters from Games Workshop I could find on the website in 2026.
Defi...
Several months ago, my gaming group started playing through the Labyrinth Adventures book, and frankly it's been tough going. We were surprised to find that Labyrinth Adventures is not actually a campaign, but several stand-alone adventures with a perfunctory side quest to provide the illusion o...
One of the most famously unsung heroes of Middle Earth is Farmer Maggot, the borderlands hobbit who turned away a Nazgûl, and who bravely transported Frodo and his friends (in the book, but not the movie) to the ferry to ensure they had safe passage on their journey. I've been stocking up on hobbits...
I watched all 3 episodes of Aeronautica Imperialis on Warhammer TV streaming, and enjoyed it. It's a story of the Imperium against the Aeldari as they fight for control of a planet that's been claimed by humanity as a forge world. But really it's a story about revenge, obsession, and ultimately ev...