A few years ago, I purchased the Pact Worlds source book for the Starfinder RPG, and read a good portion of it on flight DL508 from Atlanta to San Diego. I know this because my boarding pass for that flight was used as a bookmark. I'd read enough of the book to give me a general idea on the sett...
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords, the very first Pathfinder adventure path. This is my review of the fourth module, Fortress of the Stone Giants.
This is an exciting and brutal ending to an exciting adventure path. The plot is simple: get to the tippy-top of a mo...
The back of Magic: The Gathering cards are iconic. Mimicking, more or less, the leatherbound cover of a spellbook, it has five gemstones inset in the center, and the words "Magic The Gathering" at the top. Mysteriously, there's also the word "Deckmaster" at the bottom. It's very much an artefact o...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.
This episode is set in Hong Kong, which feels especially exotic given that so far most UNCLE episodes have been set in either the US or Europe. The plot is entirely about a MacGu...
I play 5e every week, and I absolutely love it. So it may seem strange that I simultaneously believe that the 3rd edition (specifically 3.5) of D&D remains the definitive incarnation of the game.
You might think nostalgia's to blame, but in fact I have nostalgia for 2nd edition DragonLance and Pla...
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords, the very first Pathfinder adventure path. This is my review of the fifth module, Sins of the saviours.
The penultimate module in the Runelords adventure path, this is a relatively straight-forward dungeon crawl. Before they can...
In a previous post, I explained why I love alignment in D&D, but I acknowledged that it doesn't have to work for everyone. I also admitted that I'd recently discovered an alternative to the system, but I didn't say where I'd found it.
When I bought the book Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, I w...
Since its so-called "new world order" initiative, Magic the Gathering puts reminder text after important mechanics. However, there are some core keywords (called "evergreen" by Magic R&D). These keywords are explained in section 702 of the [official rules document](https://magic.wizards.com/en/...
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords, the very first Pathfinder adventure path. This is my review of the fourth module, Fortress of the Stone Giants.
This module, in a way, is the turning point of the Runelords adventure path. It's in this module that the players lea...
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords, the very first Pathfinder adventure path. This is my review of the third module, Hook Mountain Massacre.
Mountain raid
In the third module of the Runelords adventure path (chapter 3 in the Anniversary Edition), the players go u...
I picked up the Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords, the very first Pathfinder adventure path. This is my review of the second module, The Skinsaw Murders.
Serial killer on the loose
I'm a great fan of slasher flicks like Friday the 13th. Strangely, though, I have no interest i...
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but Fallout New Vegas is a great game. I've logged hundreds of hours in New Vegas, and that's just since Steam came to Linux. It's widely praised, and lots of people have lots of great reasons for loving the game. I recently played through it again, and I th...
I'm a big fan of the alignment system in D&D, and have been since I learned about it in the original DragonLance Adventures book. I used to think that there could be nothing to lure me away from it, especially not in the context of D&D. I'll admit that recently there's been a system that has appe...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.
I like it when UNCLE and Thrush go up against each other over a third party, and that's what happens in this episode. A ring of diamond thieves engages in a plot to devalue the d...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.
In a change of pace, this one's almost a procedural investigative episode. While lounging around at his social club, which I guess must be a subsidiary of Thrush, Mr. Waverly is...
I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.
"Operator, get me Plaza 36098 in New York City."
For the record, that's how you get UNCLE Headquarters on the phone, should Channel D turn out to be inoperable for any reason...