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Paul Baldowski is a gamer, history buff and freelance RPG writer. He contributes an unsteady stream of tabletop gaming reviews, for new and classic games. He co-created the All Rolled Up dice bag and gaming accessory with his wife. You can find out more about Paul from his about me page.

Blood Will Run: Shadow of the Demon Lord Adventure Review

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Blood Will Run is a Novice level adventure for Shadow of the Demon Lord. It focuses on an investigation to discover the fate of two missing children. The adventure sets this out in clear sections – explaining the interrelationship of key players in a background section followed by hooks, the locale, rumours and five key locations / sites / structures.…

Blood and Graph Paper: a review of Tomb of the Iron God

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There’s an ancient monastery, or there was, and the locals can’t quite account for it. In truth, most of them look too fearful to want to even think about it. The temple of the Iron God once served as the final resting place for anyone in the area, whether noble or peasant.…

Marked by Calamity: A Review of Fantasy Age – Children’s Crusade

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A major calamity has left the land in disarray and a religious cult has chosen to take advantage of the moment. They have ‘marked’ certain children as a source of corruption, seeking to use them as a sacrifice for their deity; more level-headed folk have chosen to assist the children, orphans of the calamity, by smuggling them out of the country.…

In Shadow and Corruption – a review of Symbaroum

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Symbaroum brings a complete Swedish tabletop fantasy role-playing game to a wider English-speaking audience in a hardback volume or as a PDF. Not the first tabletop game to achieve this transition by any means, Symbaroum might seem unusual in that it only appeared in it’s original language format in 2013.…

Well Met in Lankhmar: A Review of Lankhmar City of Thieves

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While it might seem a simple task to create a setting supplement for a game that shifts the focus to match a book, TV show or movie, it isn’t. I mean, I’m not saying there isn’t any effort involved, but you could just slam a major synopsis down, along with some episodic notes, and that would suffice – right?…

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