TTRPG Review: Goblin Quest (2015)
I’ve been fascinated with tabletop RPGs since the early 80s, as I’ve previously mentioned elsewhere on the blog. Dungeons & Dragons was one of my earliest, post-Star Wars obsessions; the […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: BREAK!! – An Anime and Video Game-inspired TTRPG
A tabletop RPG inspired by anime and video games such as the long running Zelda series (not to mention other classic, 16-bit era titles), BREAK!! launched on Kickstarter recently and […]
TTRPG Review: Sea of Thieves: Roleplaying Game
Available now from your friendly local games store, Amazon or directly from Mongoose Publishing A few years back, I became pretty addicted to Rare’s wonderfully emergent, open-world pirate video game […]
Kickstarter Spotlight: The Blessed and the Blasphemous – Call of Cthulhu TTRPG Campaign Sourcebook
Launching 8th April 2023 on Kickstarter, The Blessed and The Blasphemous is a six-scenario campaign book for the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG. Set in Morocco just before and during World […]
TTRPG Review: Tiny Dungeon (1st Edition)
A few years ago, fuelled by passionate creators on Kickstarter, I backed a number of cheap, rules-light tabletop RPGs in the hope of finally convincing family and friends to play. […]
Video Game Review: Q-YO Blaster (Switch)
Q-YO Blaster – Available now on Switch ($9.99/£8.99) – Published by Forever Entertainment I think it was way back in the Dreamcast days that I was scared away from playing […]
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 […]
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