I've started watching Astartes on Warhammer+, and I'm reviewing each episode as I watch it. There are major spoilers in this review, so don't continue reading if you intend to watch the series yourself and want to experience it fresh.
As an aside, I don't actually know if Astartes is a serie...
Midnight on the Street of Knives is a Warhammer 40,000 short story by Andy Chambers. This is my review of it, with no spoilers.
From the site description:
Xagor is on an errand for his haemonculus master, the delivery of a thoroughly unimportant package and some tremendously important news....
I'm continuing to rewatch every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. The Pop Art Affair is a good episode with a strong guest character and a pretty interesting MacGuffin. This review contains lots of major spoilers.
Man from UNCLE has always been a fish-out-of-water st...
This is my final review of my read-through of the Armageddon Crusade book for Warhammer 40,000. For me, it's kinda useless to write a "review" of something I've not experienced in a game, but I think the Armageddon rules are worth looking at, even if only academically (until I try them, as in...
Flesh and Blood is a trading card game in which you play a hero battling to the death against a powerful enemy. It's mostly a melee game, in the sense that its fighting style tends to feel direct. You don't summon creatures to do your fighting for you, and instead do your own dirty work. You're not...
The third chapter in the Armageddon Crusade book is Assault on the Fire Wastes. It's about the assault on the Fire Wastes (no surprise there), and marks the end of the Third Armageddon war. This is my review of the chapter and, because this is the final lore chapter, of the narrative portion of...
I'm always looking for battle maps for my RPG sessions. I feel like I end up using dry erase markers on a blank grid most of the time, but when possible I do love a good photo-realistic map. It's a futile effort, of course, because even when I purchase maps specific to a campaign my gaming group e...
In the previous chapter of Amageddon Crusade: The Red Angel's Gate, we were introduced to the major players of the latest in a history of conflict on the planet of Armageddon. The greatest threat of all, it seemed, was the Red Angel's Gate, a hole in reality and blatant invitation for the arrival...
I bought Crusade: Armageddon for Warhammer 40,000 10th edition. Having finally finished my Pariah Nexus campaign, I'm reading Armageddon chapter by chapter. This is my review of the first chapter, War without end.
I haven't played any of the missions yet, so this is just a review of the...
In tabletop gaming, I often find that uniformity feels like a wargame, while inconsistency feels like an RPG. When you've got 2 units of 10 soldiers, and 1 captain leading them, you usually think of the soldiers as generically "the army" but you're likely to give that captain a name, a backstory, a...
I surprised myself by genuinely enjoying the War of the Rohirrim movie. When Citadel miniatures released a 28mm miniature for Héra, daughter of Helm, I bought it as an addition to my Middle Earth army. This is my review of the kit.
The box actually includes 2 models. There's Héra mounted on As...
I played the What Lies Within DLC for Mansions of Madness, and this is my review of it. My short spoiler-free summary is that What Lies Within is an intriguing investigative adventure with a highly engaging story. This review contains no spoilers beyond the prologue.
One nice thing about Wh...
I backed the Labyrinth setting for Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press on Kickstarter. Along with the worldbook and the campaign book, I purchased the supplemental game material by Beadle & Grimm. I'd heard of Beadle & Grimm when they were doing bespoke kits for popular D&D 5e modules, and I...
How many times can one band of misfit heroes save the galaxy? How many times can the fate of the very universe be threatened? These are questions that every fan of science fiction and fantasy eventually must face, because in most speculative fiction series the stakes are always increasing. Defeat a...
The concept of "terrain" in wargames, and many roleplaying games, includes not just the ground beneath a character's feet but also surrounding objects and structures. Setting up terrain for combat encounters is helpful to players because it defines what space they have to work with, and what physica...
I've written before about the joy of building RPG characters and the pleasure of a nice and easy pre-generated character. There's another way I interact with character building though, and it sort of sits between those two extremes. Sometimes I build a character based on a specific miniature in...