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 […]
(Chapter the Last in my exhausting — er, exhaustive — series of Sword World 2.5 articles, picking the bones of the English version by the Sword World Translation Project. Download their translation, join their Discord, or peruse their sub-Reddit. And gyre and gimble in the wabe.) The Translation Biting the hand Before TSR released the first Japanese version of D&D […]
(Number six with a bullet in my persnickety series of Sword World 2.5 articles, as I obsess over the English version by the Sword World Translation Project. Download their translation, join their Discord, or peruse their sub-Reddit. This is your penultimate warning.) Guilds in Alframe The Guilded Age Adventurer’s Guild: Originally a network of Daemon-fighting warriors which formed after the […]
(Fifth of its name in my janky series of Sword World 2.5 articles, dissembling upon the English version by the Sword World Translation Project. Download their translation, join their Discord, or peruse their sub-Reddit. Your life, and theirs, do not depend upon in it any way.) Fellows “I think that enemy got … the point!” Look, we get it. Sometimes […]
(Number four in my dorky series of Sword World 2.5 articles, examining the English version churned out by the Sword World Translation Project. Download their translation, join their Discord, or peruse their sub-Reddit. And like I always say, lay down that boogie and play that funky music ’til you die.) The Gods of Raxia Gods & ends After the War […]
(Third in my idiotic series of Sword World 2.5 articles based on the English version churned out by the Sword World Translation Project, of which I am only a humble fanboy. Download their translation, join their Discord, or peruse their sub-Reddit. Or don’t, I ain’t ya mama.) Combat I shall smite him roundly The most succinct explanation of how SW2.5 […]
(Second in my dumb series of Sword World 2.5 articles based on the efforts of the Sword World Translation Project, which has nothing to do with me besides my voracious appetite for their work. Download their translation here, join their Discord there, or peruse their sub-Reddit over yonder.) Monsters, Dungeons, and Even More Swords A […]
You have come to a World of Swords! ::swordcrack:: This is a review (more of an “opinionated overview,” really) of the Japanese role-playing game Sword World 2.5 (aka ソード・ワールド2.5). This review is based on the heroic work of the Sword World Translation Project who can be found on Reddit and Discord, if you so desire. […]