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Ariadne & Bob is a funky, improv-heavy little treat of an RPG published in 2021 by Jim “Jimbozig” Bozig McGarva, along with Paul “Ettin” Matijevic, Vel Mini, Nick Butler, Jasin Pitre, and Austin Ramsay. That’s some big developer guns right there, enn gee ell. Art is by Yuri Kavalerchik and Kyla Austin. The basic premise of […]

This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition (TWSTMH from now on, because I value my fingers) is a 2025 Kickstarter-funded compendium of the 2023 second edition of a 2021 RPG by Nick “Duffo” Duff. The Definitive Edition expands the original core rules and includes supplemental material written by Paul “Ettin” Matijevic, plus Tom Harrison and […]

Land of Eem is a 2023 TTRPG from Ben Costa and James Parks, who also authored the Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo graphic novels and Dungeoneer Adventures YA books which the game is based upon (neither of which I’ve read, so I’m coming into this totally blind). The game is published by Exalted Funeral. […]

Purple Monkey Dishwasher: The Game Hot on the heels of my last card-based TTRPG review, another one just crossed my doorstep. Nobi Nobi (sometimes written with “TRPG” on the end) is a 2017 Japanese card-based RPG for 3-5 players, which recently completed a successful Kickstarter for an English edition by the game’s French publishers. Don’t […]

Prologue: So. Know how you get weird Facebook ads sometimes? I kept seeing this one for a travel TTRPG product Kickstarter with drop-in maps and dry-erase tiles and magnetic map pieces and thought it looked sorta interesting until I learned it was $99 at the rock-bottom tier. But then someone in the comments said, “This […]

Another day, another unrequested review of a Sword World 2.5 product. Today we’ll take a look at Barbarous Rage, which lets the bad boys of Raxia take the stage as PCs and attempts to add some nuance on how Humanoids and Barbarous interact in the game world. I: Origins I’m not a monster, I’m just … ahead of […]

Super Mario Bros (video game version) Mario: The Outlander (Alien World ver.)Luigi: The Squire (See the World ver.)Peach: The Heir (Stalwart Defenders ver.)Toad: The Orc (Born in Darkness ver.)Bowser: The Overlord in some games, The Dragon (Dragon, Reborn ver.) in others You’ll notice that many of these are similar to the last time I did […]

Time to dip back into Sword World 2.5, the popular Japanese answer to D&D, with the latest supplement/campaign world translated by the Sword World Translation Project: Monochromatica. But this time we’re not returning to the default world of Raxia. No, we’re headed way beyond, almost-but-not-quite outside the universe completely, to a whole new realm where […]

Sword log: supplemental Since my original set of Sword World 2.5 reviews, several more books have been translated by the Sword World Translation Project. Collectively, these books help mitigate what I thought was the biggest problem in the original rulebooks: useful information split up among several rulebooks. Now, with these supplements, useful information is split […]