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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...

I love a good battle mat, with nice evocative artwork that tells a story all its own, while making it seem like you've got a top-down view of the world. I own several battle mats, in various forms, but the one thing I've been looking for is an all-purpose dungeon map I can use in one-shot games or 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...

It's something of a formal fallacy in gaming: If some pen-and-paper game systems are too complex for some players, then physical representations of game components must make a game easy. Of course it's not entirely wrong. In a way, this is why miniatures exist, and why [theoretically] useful product...

In August 2025 in issue 515, White Dwarf magazine published a set of rules for a cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000, inspired by the breakout hit Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 video game. I'm never one to bury the lede. Space Marine Operations is a great game. It's easily the best way...

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...

Do you dread being caught diceless when someone unexpectedly proposes a game? Are business meetings fraught with anxiety for fear of a client suddenly asking you to teach them D&D, but then realising you didn't bring a d20? Is your home life suffering because you're accusing your loved ones of steal...

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...

I was looking for some sci-fi soldiers for a game of Space Station Zero, and I stumbled upon Wargames Atlantic. They had a shipping centre nearby, so I decided to give them a try. The closest thing to generic sci-fi soldiers I could find, at the time, was their Iron Core product line, which then...