As much as we love Scion, this is not a review of the game itself (which was reviewed here), but of the medium in which it is presented. PDFs of roleplaying games have – in some ways – helped save the roleplaying industry. PDFs are making roleplaying games more accessible by making them more easily […]
Peter Ray Allison grabs his pulse rifle and joins the colonial marines to check out Free League Publishing's Alien: The Roleplaying Game. Spoiler: It's a bit good...
2020 promises to be the year of the vampire. Don’t worry, we are not expecting a plague of blood suckers. Neither has the Chinese zodiac started including sparkly vampires. Instead, we will witness the classic nineties roleplaying game of personal horror; Vampire: The Masquerade dominating gaming. Following the recent release of V5 (reviewed here), next […]
Bloodlines 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the classic Vampire: The Masquerade video game Bloodlines. Continuing the story of the first game, Bloodlines 2 presents players with the opportunity to explore the vampiric underworld of Seattle. In the first Bloodlines, players had the choice of between the masquerade upholding Camarilla sect or the freedom-espousing Anarchs, […]
The SLA Industries roleplaying game first appeared twenty-five years ago. As an entirely new setting, SLA (pronounced “Slay”) Industries was praised for its originality and iconic themes, for which it won numerous awards. The game is based around a far-future dystopia. Much of the known universe is owned, or indirectly controlled, by the eponymous corporation […]
Medioevo Universale is a HUGE game and for those who know me, there is nothing that floats my proverbial, tabletop gaming, boat more than big, complex games that take half the day or more to play and make casual gamers sigh. Until now though the only way to slate my thirst for such rare behemoths, […]
Catalyst Games Lab launch their first kickstarter for Classic Battletech with the Clan Invasion xox set, that has everything for games of armoured combat.
Onyx Path Publishing have revealed their new vision of the classic table-top roleplaying game Scion, with the combined release of Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero last month. Scion: Origin contains the basic core rules for running games in the Scion universe, whilst Scion: Hero provides players with rules for playing characters who are descendants of […]
Despite the mixed response to the recent Prometheus and Covenant films, the Alien series still hold a special place in many geeks’ hearts. The Alien and Aliens films are frequently praised and the colonial marine cosplayers remain a frequent sight at conventions. There has been a slew of video game adaptations of varying quality, from […]
What can be said about Matthew Dawkins that hasn’t been said before? Matthew Dawkins, otherwise known as the Gentleman Gamer, is a freelance writer and in-house developer for Onyx Path Publishing. His credits are phenomenal and include pretty much every branch of the World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness. From the excellent Beckett’s Jyhad […]
