Review: Archive – Historical People, Places, and Events for RPGs
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Review: Archive – Historical People, Places, and Events for RPGs

I’m a member of the Indie Game Developer Network. So when a member wrote that his Kickstarter was mid-swing, and a surfeit of real-life obligations prevented him from doing marketing for great justice (nod to Zero Wing). I offered to take a look at his product and review it. The Book of Nouns Well, yeah. The…

Feat Design and Dragon Heresy
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Feat Design and Dragon Heresy

Over on his blog, Brandon Stoddard offers up an in-depth analysis, from his perspective, of a giant list of feats in the Fifth Edition rules. He might have thrown in some Unearthed Arcana in there too. You might read his analysis and conclude he’s totally off his rocker. You might agree with every point. Regardless,…

Sunday Review – Pyramid #3/98: Welcome to Dungeon Fantasy
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Sunday Review – Pyramid #3/98: Welcome to Dungeon Fantasy

Preamble: Dungeon Fantasy Steve Jackson Games is conservatively being bold. They are trying a purpose-built RPG, powered by the GURPS engine, that takes the self-contained model to its logical conclusion. They are supporting a high production value release that they funded in a successful Kickstarter. This release follows what I consider a pretty successful pattern…