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...
In the previous chapter of Amageddon Crusade: The Red Angel's Gate, we were introduced to the major players of the latest in a history of conflict on the planet of Armageddon. The greatest threat of all, it seemed, was the Red Angel's Gate, a hole in reality and blatant invitation for the arrival...
I bought Crusade: Armageddon for Warhammer 40,000 10th edition. Having finally finished my Pariah Nexus campaign, I'm reading Armageddon chapter by chapter. This is my review of the first chapter, War without end.
I haven't played any of the missions yet, so this is just a review of the...
I surprised myself by genuinely enjoying the War of the Rohirrim movie. When Citadel miniatures released a 28mm miniature for Héra, daughter of Helm, I bought it as an addition to my Middle Earth army. This is my review of the kit.
The box actually includes 2 models. There's Héra mounted on As...
I backed Mantic's Epic Warpath wargame on Kickstarter and was so impressed by the impossibly tiny 12mm miniatures I got with it that I almost started regretting ever getting into 28mm miniatures. Crisis of preferred miniature scales aside, I was also intrigued by Mantic's Warpath universe. Unlike...
I backed a recent Kickstarter by Loke Battle Mats for the Dungeon Reignited map books. I'm genuinely not sure what makes the dungeons reignited, nor why they needed reigniting. All I knew was that I'd purchased a Loke Battle Mat book in my local game store and have been so happy with it that I wan...
Sometimes dreams do come true. When I first got Liber Mechanicum for Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness, I was most intrigued by the entry for the Arcuitor Magisterium. Many units in Horus Heresy don't have official models, which is refreshing on one hand because it means you get to use your imaginat...
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...
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...