Board Game Review: Beasts of Balance
The first time I played Beasts of Balance, I became so absorbed in its Jenga-meets-Pokemon gameplay that I lost all sense and track of time; a few hours passed without […]
Board Game Review: Heroclix – X of Swords Miniatures Game (Starter Set)
Heroclix has been around in one form or another since 2002, remarkably. It’s a miniatures game that’s suitable for beginners, players of all ages or just those gamers who are […]
Board Game Review: Chronicles of Crime
Note: My Chronicles of Crime review was originally published not long after the base game had been released; since then, it’s been a huge and deserved success, seeing lots of […]
Streets of Superstition: A NES Game That Never Was
As part of RoseTintedSpectrum’s proposed second series of YouTube videos – based around the concept of various contributors from the video game community, creating video game concepts, artwork and the […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: The Man Who Died Twice – Hardcover Graphic Novel
I grew up devouring comics and playing game books – Fighting Fantasy mostly, but I wasn’t too fussy; I’d read and play pretty much any interactive fiction I could get […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: Lost in the Shuffle: A Double-Dealing Puzzle Game
Currently seeking funds – and heading towards the end of its rightfully successful Kickstarter campaign as of the time of writing – Spencer Beebe’s clever puzzle game Lost in the […]
News: Halloween Hijinks 2022 – A Livestream TTRPG Event for Charity
Roll for Good are a European/UK-based community that utilise tabletop roleplaying to raise funds for charity. The diverse Roll for Good community – which includes their management team – is […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: RPG Stories: 3D World Builder/VTT
Lockdown may have taken many in-person pastimes away, but necessity – as they say – is the mother of invention. The fact that tabletop gamers couldn’t gather in person didn’t […]
Blast from the Past
Though I only got into writing seriously and regularly when I launched this very blog a few years ago, my published writing work goes back as far as the last […]
News: itch.io Charity Bundles
Indie creators on itch.io have banded together to offer some phenomenal bundles of games (mostly video games and tabletop RPGs) for some very worthy causes – and I figured it […]
Book Review: Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
The fantasy genre is stuffed full of multi-part, grand epics that feature universe shattering politics, action and complex plots – with scores of characters in each saga to get to […]
My Tabletop Game of the Year 2021
We’ve already seen my choices for video game of the year and comic book of the year (and established the rules: my choice isn’t necessarily one that released in 2021, […]
First Impressions: Nerf Legends
The FPS genre is massive, but in general it tends to skew towards an older audience – after all, going around shooting stuff in a violent manner tends to be […]
Sirens: Battle of the Bards – An Interview with Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone
“I was eight years old,” Satine Phoenix reveals, about her first encounter with Dungeons & Dragons. “I found the starter box in my basement. It had my Dad’s old characters […]
Feature: Alone Among the Stars – Playthrough
As promised/threatened in my review of the wonderful, minimalist solo TTRPG Alone Among the Stars yesterday, I wanted to share the results of my first play of the game. Do […]
TTRPG Review: Alone Among the Stars
Though I’ve had an interest in tabletop roleplaying games since discovering D&D in the early 80s, I’ve not played as many as I would have liked to. It’s even more […]
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