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Castles & Crusades: Monsters & Treasure review — Meet strange and exciting creatures, kill them and take their stuff.

Within the hobby of role playing games these days, there are a lot of monster books. There are also a lot of books loaded with magic items and loot. Rarely

By Chas Turner

/ 24 Jan 2025

Picture of the Castles & Crusades Monsters and Treasure cover

Castles and Crusades Players Handbook (9th printing) review — The oldest of the new old school.

When you read through as many TTRPG books as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. Things that may set an expectation or opinion before you fully recognize

By Chas Turner

/ 24 Jan 2025

Picture of the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook cover

An Age Contrived review— Fit for the gods

I’m garbage at baking. It probably doesn’t help that I never dabbled until I lived at altitude, making the learning curve that much steeper, but as much as

By Nick Dubs

/ 21 Jan 2025

An Age Contrived review— Fit for the gods

Wyrmspan review — Replacing feathers for scales

In 2019, Stonemeier Games released Wingspan. Wingspan was an event in board gaming, selling over 1.4 million copies over the course of its first 3 years, meaning most people

By James van Tonningen

/ 17 Jan 2025

Wyrmspan review — Replacing feathers for scales

Aqua review — Surprising depth in this art!

Aqua is a mechanically simple 2-player card placement game, where your goal is to create sets of matching icons and numbers within either the rows or columns of the

By Andy Giovanni

/ 9 Jan 2025

Aqua review — Surprising depth in this art!

Sorcerer: Endbringer review — Create your demigod, then kill them

I really love Sorcerer. As someone that enjoys playing TCGs but hasn’t got a knack for deck construction, I’m frequently on the lookout for games that scratch the

By Andy Giovanni

/ 9 Jan 2025

Sorcerer: Endbringer review — Create your demigod, then kill them

Pacific War 1942 & War of 1812 review — Must have solitaire games.

Pacific War 1942 and War of 1812 are two solitaire games by Worthington Publishing. Although these games are very similar, their differences can be summarized by a few rule changes

By Raven Winters

/ 9 Jan 2025

Pacific War 1942 & War of 1812 review — Must have solitaire games.

Tomorrow City RPG review — high concept Dieselpunk with spectacular presentation

It’s 1984 and the world is in shambles. Decades of conflict have wrought their ruin, and Tomorrow City’s art-deco splendor looms over the land, its many rings

By John Farrell

/ 8 Jan 2025

Tomorrow City RPG review — high concept Dieselpunk with spectacular presentation

Endeavor: Deep Sea review – The sea is calling you to explore all she has to offer.

A few years ago, as my students and I were discussing issues they were concerned with, one of my students blurted out, “Save the Turtles!” The result of a trend

By Dan Hinkin

/ 8 Jan 2025

Endeavor: Deep Sea review – The sea is calling you to explore all she has to offer.

Stalk Exchange review — Bloom or Bust

Stalk Exchange is the latest in the surprisingly long list of flower themed speculative stock games, but is this one worth investing in? I think it is. The game is

By Andy Giovanni

/ 6 Jan 2025

Ink RPG review — enter a purgatory of questionable game design

Ink spins the tale of lost souls travelling a murky purgatory to find their way Beyond. Its visual aesthetics are unimpeachable, brilliant black and white pages of mutated ghosts travelling

By John Farrell

/ 2 Jan 2025

Ink RPG review — enter a purgatory of questionable game design

Joyride: Survival of the Fastest review — Let’s go for a spin

Joyride: Survival of the Fastest is a two to four player combat racing game. The goal is always to be the first to cross the finish line, usually through a

By Chris Hinkes

/ 21 Dec 2024

Joyride: Survival of the Fastest review — Let’s go for a spin

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