Review of Outremer: A Dream of What Could Have Been by Flying Mice Games
Posted: 31st January 2013 by admin in Game Reviews, Genre Fiction & Media, RPGsTags: Crusades, game review, Historical Adventure, Historical Gaming, Howard Lamb, Outremer, Robert E Howard
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OVERVIEW Outremer: A Dream of What Could Have Been is a Alternate History game of the Crusades, set in the Levant. Outremer, comes from the French and means Overseas, as the Holy Lands of the Crusades were called. The subject of Historical/Alternate History RPGs is an interesting one, as traditionally there have been relatively few [...]
Review of Silvervine Games Core Rulebook & Cyrus Worldbook
Posted: 19th January 2013 by admin in Game Reviews, RPGsTags: cyrus worldbook, Fantasy, game review, RPG, Silvervine games, storybox
Silvervine Games Core Rulebook & Cyrus Worldbook is a Universal/Multi-genre rules system and bundled fantasy steampunk world setting rules book published by the eponymous Silvervine games. The Silvervine system provides players with a simple core mechanic and unlimited, semi free-form character creation coupled with a fortune in the middle resolution system. The focus of the [...]
Review of Broken Rooms
Posted: 29th October 2012 by admin in Game Reviews, RPGsTags: broken rooms, greymalkin designs, review, universal rpg
Broken Rooms is a Multi-genre Universal RPG by Greymalkin Designs . From the introduction chapter, “you could call Broken Rooms a modern-day post-apocalyptic science fiction conspiracy horror roleplaying game of parallel worlds. “ Taken further, Broken Rooms is a thematically meaty game of characters thrust into the struggles of the 12 dying variants of Earth [...]
Overview of Earthdawn
Posted: 29th September 2012 by admin in Game Reviews, RPG Community, RPGsTags: earthdawn, panda gaming grove
So reading +Morgan Weeks blog, http://pandagaminggrove.blogspot.com (kung fu optional) she has posted a series of articles talking about the awesome that Earthdawn . I remember back in the day, me and my droogs all jumped on Earthdawn. Some of my marketing jazz was, everyone has cool powers and abilities (Suck it 4e), and you get [...]
When Worlds Collide RPG Review
Posted: 23rd September 2012 by admin in Game ReviewsTags: review, universal rpg, when worlds collide
When World’s Collide is universal multi-genre RPG produced by its UK based namesake company, consisting primarily of it’s author, John Fountain, and editor, Alistair Dandy (Yes, this game has an editor, and it shows). I was graciously provided with a review copy of the PDF, at my request. The game describes itself as “ When [...]
