Mixed Signals

Straight-forward gaming

I was excited about Kobold Press's Labyrinth release. I thought that if anybody was going to come up with a compelling alternative to Planescape, it would be Kobold Press. I was, and still am, intrigued by some of the concepts from Labyrinth Worldbook, but ultimately I felt that it was oddly dis...

Last year around this time of the year, I got a Kickstarter notification that Mantic Games was running a campaign for advent calendars that contained pieces of little wargames. There were 5 unique games being offered, so I went in for all 5 because I thought they would make great gifts for my gami...

This is a review of the third adventure in Kobold Press's Labyrinth Adventures book. My gaming group has been playing through the book this year, and happily Song of the Void proved to be a [and probably the first] really good adventure of the book. We had fun with this one, and much of it is do...

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...

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...

I backed the Labyrinth setting for Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press on Kickstarter. Several months ago, my gaming group started playing through the Labyrinth Adventures campaign. We didn't love the first adventure Lost Book of Mektar so we were really hoping for an improvement with the...

If you're a player in a roleplaying game, you're pretty happy when you get to add a number to your character's attribute or skill. Your character becomes [potentially] more powerful, which is nice because the fantasy of being infallibly good at something is one of the fun things about most roleplayi...

I backed the Labyrinth setting for Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press on Kickstarter. Several months ago, my gaming group started playing through the Labyrinth Adventures campaign, starting with the first module The Lost Book of Mektar. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a rough start, but...

This is my review of chapter 8: Monsters of the Labyrinth of Kobold Press's Labyrinth Worldbook, a planar setting for Tales of the Valiant (or any DnD 5e variant). As with spells and gods, it's hard to go wrong with a chapter full of monsters, and this chapter does not disappoint. Better yet,...

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 7: Running Labyrinth Campaigns. There's some very good stuff in this chapter, and not a bit of it belongs in the seventh chapter or in a chapter called Running...

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...

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...