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About Paul Baldowski

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.

Signs of the End Times – a review of Pax Cthuliana

December 13, 2017 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

If I could pin down the spark in Pax Cthuliana, it comes down to a combination of excellent handouts and the cult of personality. At heart, Pax Cthuliana – a 72-pages investigation, written by Jarle Haktorson, with art and handouts by Joseph Diaz and Even V. Røssland – runs a fairly linear path from start […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft, Jarle Haktorson, NEVR, Pax Cthuliana, reviews

Blood Will Run: Shadow of the Demon Lord Adventure Review

May 26, 2016 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dan Heinrich, reviews, Robert J. Schwalb, rpgs, Shadow of the Demon Lord

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

April 30, 2016 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

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. Now, the temple […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Matthew Finch, Mythmere Games, Old School Renaissance, OSR, reviews, rpgs

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

April 29, 2016 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy age, green ronin, Jack Norris, reviews, rpgs

So Adorably Savage: Baby Bestiary Volume 2

February 13, 2016 by Paul Baldowski 1 Comment

The original Baby Bestiary, marshalled and creatively directed by Andreas Walters, not only provided me with inspiration, it also looked fantastic. I originally pledged for his 2015 Baby Bestiary calendar, but the full Baby Bestiary would have looked so good on my coffee table. I missed out then, but now Andreas has returned with Baby […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Baby Bestiary, fantasy, kickstarters, Metal Weave Games

In Shadow and Corruption – a review of Symbaroum

January 19, 2016 by Paul Baldowski 2 Comments

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. Funding the translation by IndieGoGo, […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: jarnringen, reviews, rpgs, Scandi Drama, Symbaroum, tabletop adventures

Multiplying Bizarre by Impossible: a review of anomaly 1

September 30, 2015 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

I have always been a sucker for those art books that never seem to surface anymore. Possibly, I’m looking in the wrong place. Amongst my more treasured books and annuals, I have several examples of this phenomenon from the 70s and 80s. Huge, hardback and glossy books packed with pictures of spacecraft or bizarre landscapes. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Brad Murray, fractals, hard sci-fi, reviews, rpgs, VSCA Publishing

Legends Begin Here: a review of Lone Wolf Adventure Game

September 29, 2015 by Paul Baldowski 1 Comment

Cubicle 7’s Lone Wolf Adventure Game boxed set enters Joe Dever’s world of Magnamund and allows you to take on the role of Kai Initiates. In the face of creeping darkness and scattered pockets of injustice, you have the means to bring light and hope. Packed into an impressively solid and weighty box, LWAG (as […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cubicle 7, Joe Dever, kickstarters, Lone Wolf Adventure Game, reviews, rpgs

Of Onionskins and Seven Dogs: A review of Aletheia

September 23, 2015 by Paul Baldowski Leave a Comment

Role-playing can become an expensive hobby if you go down certain routes. Game companies have cottoned on to the concept of core rulebooks that provide just enough material to get you going. Once you’re in, they flash supplemental material and adventures in your direction, in the hope that you’ll bite. Sometimes, the material on offer […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aletheia, Fringe, investigation, reviews, rpgs, The X-Files

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

August 10, 2015 by Paul Baldowski 8 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Lankhmar, Pinnacle Games, reviews, rpgs

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