If you haven’t met the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Rosa Klebb, and Raoul Silva before, the game will guide you through their exquisite evil expertise and how to employ them against 007.
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You’re gonna die and you might like it: A review of A Good Death
A Good Death is a solo RPG and journal game from Trent Seltzer. It’s a Name Your Own Price download from Itch.io. I paid $2, and I’ll get way more value from it than that.
5e Spelljammer: Wildjammer gets 100-page supplement and FoundryVTT module
This system uses a different scale of combat for ship fights and has means through which player characters can use their own attack bonus, class features, etc. to influence the way a fight goes
UK Games Expo 2021 Awards winners
The UK Games Expo is one of the first significant gaming conventions to push on ahead into the opening wake of the lockdown. As a result, the prestigious UK Games Expo Awards has winners for 2021.
Genre Police: Wangrods and Warriors
I think ‘The Wangrod Defence’ is the perfect example of what happens when we refuse to view the meta.
Fading Suns sails into New Frontiers
Ulisses Spiele uses the term “space Vikings” to describe the people from the Star Nations, a diverse group, who are divided and potentially vulnerable to the empire.
Free to Download: Supernatural correction of The Unworld Mysteries
Lovecraft meets the X-Files, or, as the game itself encourages us to imagine the Unworld as 50% The Force and 50% The Upside Down from Stranger Things.
Danger and reward with Through the Veil: Treasure of the Feywild
One of the successes of Treasures of the Feywild is to get the balance of breadth and depth right. There’s a range of different types of equipment here and then, for the popular styles, plenty of items.
Looking for a big baddie for your RPG? Liches: Dance Macabre offers the Sorrow Lords for 5e and Pathfinder
Everyone hates liches – the Sorrow Lords – more than vampires, dragons, and demons. They are sentient, free-willed open wounds in reality who corrupt everything they touch.
Free to Download: At One With Nature a 1920s Call of Cthulhu horror
Graham James suggests the game suits two to three players and the Keeper. I think it’s much better with two players. These two characters are ideally newlywed and taking a honeymoon to 1920s Scotland.
