Last year Third Eye Games released Wu Xing. This was a ninja RPG with fantasy powers and which edged towards the dark and gritty rather than bright cinematic heroics. Wu Xing: The Firebrands is the first sourcebook in the series. It’s a clanbook. The main rules detail a number of clans; the Bamboo Herbalists, the […]
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Supernatural: One Year Gone review
Supernatural: One Year Gone is a book that fits in between series 5 and series 6 of the TV show of the same name. This review doesn’t dig deep into spoiler territory for series 6 but if you’re not caught up with series 5, are worried about spoilers then you may enjoy it more to […]
Anno Dracula review
I first read Anno Dracula years ago. I can’t remember when; it feels like many life-times ago, it may have been back in the 15th century or perhaps around 1992 when the book first came out. Titan Books have brought Kim Newman’s head-of-its-time novel back and it is a clever decision. Mashups are all the […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides review
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a good movie but it is not fantastic. Johnny Depp’s favourite character, Captain Jack Sparrow, is back for another visually familiar pirate romp around the world. There are some significant changes to the movie from the last three, though, especially the last two. Perhaps first among these […]
Baptism of Fire review
Baptism of Fire is a World War II RPG. The book, available from Amazon, weighs in at 354 pages and makes use of the d20 system. If you’re a fan of military RPGs then it’s certainly worth looking at and I’ll risk the prediction that you’ll end up buying it. The advantage of the d20 […]
A Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic review
If you’ve been holding off subscribing to Sky then A Game of Thrones might be that one show that changes your mind. Alternatively, you could move to America for the next few months and watch it on HBO. This review comes from the UK where Sky Atlantic currently has the exclusive run of a Game […]
Untold CBRPG review
Untold is a RPG with a twist. It positions itself as a CBRPG rather than an RPG for a start. Care to take a guess to what the “CB” stands for? Untold is a Card Based RPG. The goal is to do a way with the endless pile of sourcebooks you need to collect, read […]
Exalted comic volume 1 review
White Wolf have have just released a PDF of Exalted Volume 1 of the new Exalted comic. I thought I’d check it out. I was expecting to be pleased. The artwork in Exalted has always appealed to me. I was bang in White Wolf’s target market for the game – an anime fan, someone looking […]
Primeval: Extinction Event review
I enjoyed Primeval: Extinction Event far more than I thought I would. This is not the case of me judging a book by the cover – that features the character Abby Maitland, played by the actress Hannah Spearrit and would therefore rate very highly – but me worrying too much about the troubled Primeval TV […]
A Shadow on the Glass review
I’ve finally finished Ian Irvine’s A Shadow on the Glass. This was the book that earned me the GetGlue sticker War and Peace because I was checking into the book for over a month. I’m pleased I got to the end but it was a struggle. Why was A Shadow on the Glass such a […]
