In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set Dragons of the Forsaken Desert. In this blog post, I review the gameplay of the set.
Some Dungeoneer sets are highly evocative to me, which I think is laregely down to personal preferences and nostalgi...
I recently learned of the M4 Book Edit fan cut of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movies, and decided to watch it. As someone who worked on The Hobbit movies, I have no hesitation in declaring them bad movies and, in stark contrast to the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) films, worse adaptations of Tolki...
Necessary Evil by Rob Sanders is a short story about paranoia and apocalyptic dread set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The main character of the story is Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak, an agent of the Imperium tasked with hunting down and eliminating alien influences. In this story, he crash lan...
Roleplaying games and wargames have drifted apart considerably over the past several decades, but they still retain common elements that sometimes go unnoticed. I've told people that roleplaying games were invented as a sort of alternate format for wargaming, but it doesn't resonate for someone who...
Left for Dead is a Warhammer 40,000 short story by Steve Lyons about a soldier in the Death Korps of Krieg, and his escape from the eternal war of the 41st millennium. This is the Red Badge of Courage of 40k, and it's written very much as an almost universal story that almost doesn't depend on...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord set. In this post, I review the set as a game. To be fair, the mechanics of Dungeoneer sets don't vary all that much, but I want to at least look at what kind experience each set creates...
Me and my players used to wonder about why numbers get so big in Pathfinder. Any Pathfinder player knows that rolls of 35 and 45 aren't uncommon at high levels. It's tempting to fall into the assumption that any big number is the same as a small number once you've found the lowest common denominator...
I was never a Marvel comics fan, but once Marvel started making blockbuster moves (some of which I've got credit on), Marvel became pretty hard to ignore. It wasn't that I had anything against Marvel, it's just that I started buying comics a few years after the 1989 Batman movie came out, so Batm...
When I play space marines, I usually play Iron Hands, and so I decided to read the Black Library book Ferrus Manus by David Guymer. I read this as an audiobook while mowing the lawn, so I'll likely misspell most proper nouns that I only heard and cannot find referenced online. This review contains...
This is the fifth and final battle report for the four-part Battle of Pelennor Fields mission pack included in the boxed set for Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. I only own the mission booklet, not the boxed set, so I'm playing the scenarios in ancient Rome, as it's being invaded by orcs from...
Warhammer is so big that it can be hard to know where to start, or even if you want to start. Warhammer Academy is a new initiative from Games Workshop to shepherd people into Warhammer 40,000 through structured videos lessons and tutorials, in the style of a MOOC (massive open online course.) I...