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RPGnet Newsletter #76
November 8, 2016
New Columns
Christopher Cecil brought a new Fuzzy Thinking: “Bards Rock!”
And, Brent Dedeaux told some more Tales from the Rocket House, this time playing out a card-based character creation system in “The Character Is in the Cards.”
New Reviews
Matthew McFarland kicked things off with a review of “Trials of the Magi,” a storytelling game about a cabal of wizards preparing for their final exams with some unrealized potential.
Antonios S kept the dice-product reviews rolling with looks at three dice towers: the “e-Raptor Small Black Dragon Dice Tower,” “e-Raptor Large Red Dragon Dice Tower,” and “e-Raptor Black Castle Dice Tower.”
Antonios S also looked at to expansions for The Great War board game: the “Tank Expansion,” an almost necessary add-on to the base game, and the “Whippet Tanks” which probably could have been part of the Tank Expansion in the first place.
He also looked at two expansions for the Vudu/Voodoo dice game: “Double Trouble,” which is easy, light, entertaining, and delivers the team experience, and “Ninjas vs Pygmies,” an inexpensive refresher to the base game.
Endzeitgeist rounded out the week with two RPG reviews. First, he looked at “The Outer Presence,” a very rules-light investigative horror game. Next was “Don’t Walk in Winter Wood,” a cooperative, narrative, rules-light horror game set in a vaguely colonial setting in the United States.
Threads You Might Have Missed
There’ve been many great RPGnet threads about the Cthulhu mythos, and last week saw the inevitable, terrible rise of another: “How alien are the Great Old Ones / is the Cthulhu Mythos? [Spoilers for Dulce Et Decorum Est].”
The “ambitious gaming project” award of the week goes to Leonaru, who is planning on “Hex mapping the 15th century Holy Roman Empire.”
And, from the “Oh my word this is great news!” department, “Cam Banks Licenses Cortex and Cortex Plus!”
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Have a good week, everyone.
- Iustum
Newsletter Editor
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