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Review: The Magus

March 24, 2022 by The Chatty DM

The Magus

I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at “The Magus”. I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven “Sell me an amazing Indie RPG” thread but I hadn’t gotten to reading it yet. All I remembered was that it looked gorgeous.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: journal rpg, Journaling RPG, Solo Roleplaying, solo rpg

Hope in the Dark Heart of Evil is Not a Plan

January 24, 2022 by multiplexer

Hope is Not a Plan

Playing my typical day-to-day as a game didn’t feel like much fun. But, I thought, if I made Hope is Not a Plan a Dungeonomics story, maybe something darkly funny would emerge.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Actual Play, Dungeons and Dragons, hope is not a plan, journal game, solo rpg

Chatty on Games #1: Dorf Romantik

August 10, 2021 by The Chatty DM

Dorf Romantik on Steam

“It’s like they put a high scoring mechanism on a Rainy-Day-Jigsaw-Puzzle session and realized it was (redacted) addictive.” -me on Twitter.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: dorf romantik

D&D Beyond: From Trial to Adoption

February 25, 2019 by The Chatty DM

D&D Beyond is an amazing, albeit expensive tool that gives me 90% of what I need at the table. But the missing 10% can be real annoying.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, dnd beyond

Review: “Storm King’s Thunder” – A Giant-Sized Toolbox

October 20, 2016 by JonBolds

“Storm King’s Thunder” is a campaign-length adventure as players travel to and fro in the northern Forgotten Realms fighting cranky giants and trying to figure out why they’re all up to various destructive plots, apocalyptic shenanigans, and general tomfoolery all of a sudden.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, against the giants, D&D, D&D 5e, storm king's thunder

Review: “Captain America: Civil War”

May 12, 2016 by The Main Event

I thoroughly enjoyed Captain America: Civil War, but watching it with my wife, I was struck by a few major compromises the film made.

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: captain america, captain america: civil war, marvel, mcu

Surviving

April 27, 2016 by Chris Sims

Survival mode pumps Fallout 4’s feel up to the right notch, adding a little something I missed without quite knowing it.

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: Fallout, Fallout 4, Post-Apocalypse, survival, video game

Review: “Dungeon Master’s Guide” for “Dungeons & Dragons” 5th Edition

November 28, 2014 by Dave

Does the DMG fill in the gaps? Is it more for new DMs, experienced DMs, or all? What about all the rules modules discussed earlier in development? Find out in this full review.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 5e, D&D, D&D 5e, dmg, Dungeon Master's Guide

Preview: “Chasm” Video Game

November 5, 2014 by The Main Event

I distinctly remember leaving my apartment one day and running into my neighbor. He looked at my shirt and said, “Wow, you like Castlevania?” Fast-forward a few years, and a few minutes on my computer, and my neighbor gave me an alpha copy of his successful Kickstarter “Metroidvania” homage, Chasm.

Filed Under: Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: chasm

Preview: “World Wide Wrestling”

September 11, 2014 by Vanir

In short: I strongly encourage you to check this game out, and throw money at it until it arrives at your house and does a flying elbow through your door.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: indie, Kickstarter, world wide wrestling, wrestling, wwe

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