All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
Review: 1Dollarscan Book Scanning Service
I often review books and games on the site, but this is the first time I reviewed a service. Specifically, the book scanning service offered by 1dollarscan.com. 1dollarscan will scan any text item (books, photos, business cards. etc) and then use optical character recognition to convert the images to searchable text. I have some reference [...]
Review: Force on Force from Ambush Alley Games and Osprey Publishing
From the outset, let me make clear that I am not a “miniature” guy. Sure, I throw down miniatures for RPG games and “Wing of War,” but I am not someone that sits around painting Napoleanic infantry to the historically-accurate color scheme. More, I am not one to enjoy deeply complex miniature combat games that [...]
Review: Gaming Paper Adventure Maps: Mega Dungeon 1
Description: 100 unique, highly detailed dungeon double-sided geomorphs which can be arranged in hundreds of different patterns. One side shows unfurnished dungeon rooms for you to fill. The other side has furnished rooms. Together, all one hundred sheets form a massive single dungeon 10 sheets tall by 10 sheets wide. Available at Gamingpaper.com Retail Price: [...]
Review – Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games
When I sat down to read Crime Pays: A Godfather’s Grimoire by Goodman Games I was extremely shocked! And, in a very good way! I was expecting a DM resource to bring the Medieval Mafia down on your unsuspecting PCs. And of course, it does this very well. There are 60 new stat blocks with [...]
Review: The Last of the Independents from Numbskull Games
The Last of the Independents is a recent Euro-style board game from Numbskull Games. The idea behind this game is to out engineer, out manufacture, and out advertise your competition as an Automobile company circa 1950′s. Aside from the unique setting, this game is also noteworthy that it is a strategy board game that does [...]
Review: Livescribe Pulse Smartpen as a DM Tool
I know this is a game site, but sometimes I go off the reservation if I find something useful to gamers. In this case, it is a Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen. I received my Pulse as a Christmas gift and found it very game-useful and worthy of a post. The Pulse is a large [...]
Review: Dungeons & Dragons Comics by IDW Publishing
The schwag bags at Gen Con have been the butt of many jokes in recent years. And no wonder, they SUCKED compared to the hey-day of the pre-recession yesteryear. Last Gen Con, we hung our bags up in the hotel room as a garbage repository. There was one thing, however, that I was very excited [...]
Review: RPG Character Illustrations.com–Behold the Face of Trask!
RPG Character Illustrations, creators of role-playing game character portraits kindly offered me a chance to try their service. I quickly accepted and here is my review of the process from start to finish. I visited rpgcharacterillustrations.com and followed the site’s prompts. The first step is to enter information about your character; race, age, height, weapons, [...]
Dungeons and Dragons Essentially Covered – Just the Facts
Welcome Enworlders! While you are here, take a look at the great contest we are running! First prize is a free copy of the Eoris role-playing game! My group hates Essentials. Full disclosure. I’m not saying I hate Essentials, but my players are obviously not impressed. We argued recently. Voices were actually raised. This article [...]