RPGnet Newsletter #181

[RPGnet Forums]( RPGnet Newsletter #181 August 13, 2019 {NAME}, here is this week's RPGnet Newsletter! New Columns What's that? You want another top-10 themed gaming comedy comic? Christopher Cecil of Fuzzy Thinking has you covered: [Top Things You Don't Want to Hear in the Dungeon.]( And, school is back in session with Thomas Robbins and Character Class. Today's lesson covers: [Multi-Classing: The Tactician.]( New Reviews Olivier Legrand got into a phonebooth with [The Doctor Who Sourcebooks (1 to 11),]( and found them to be a fantastic series of top-notch sourcebooks that rank among the best licensed RPG supplements ever produced. Edward A Kabara reviewed [Keeping it Classy: The Bard,]( a 6-dollar book that provides a solid punch of material. Antonios S reviewed two products for Modiphius's John Carter of Mars RPG. The [Phantoms of Mars Campaign Guide]( is more of an entertaining adventure that requires a significant amount of work on the GM's part to run. The [Narrator's Toolkit]( can help with that; it's indispensable for those gaming on the line. Speaking of GM screens, Antonios also hid behind the [Kult: Divinity Lost - Gamemaster Screen,]( which does not try hard enough, and eventually gets mired in mediocrity while retaining a high price for what it offers. And, speaking of segues, Antonios then rebelled with the [Anarch,]( a VTM supplement that is great as a collection of fiction, but sort of terrible as a gaming product. Antonios also reviewed the [Lonely Mountain Region Guide]( for the Adventures in Middle Earth RPG; it's a book about dwarves which successfully covers ground on a swathe of issues while remaining a book about dwarves. And, Antonios also reviewed some non-RPG products: - [Unlock! Heroic Adventures]( is the fifth game of the Unlock! game line of cooperative escape room simulations, and it is one of the best in the series. - [Star Trek: Frontiers]( is a a competitive, cooperative and solo boardgame in one that is basically a simpler version of Mage Knight rethemed for the Star Trek universe. - And, the [Coriolis Dice Set]( has some good concepts but poor execution. Eschewing the OSR just for a moment, Endzeitgeist reviewed the D&D 5e module [Mortzengersturm, the Mad Manticore of Prismatic Peak,]( and found a genuinely funny fantasy adventure inspired by Tex Avery/Loony Toons. Endzeitgeist also reviewed [The Memoires of Auberon of Faerie,]( a massive Castle Falkenstein supplement providing an interesting journey through the realms of faerie. Endzeitgeist also provided a couple of OSR product reviews. [The Undercroft #3]( is more focused than the earlier issues of the occult/horror fantasy focused 'zine, and benefits from it. And, [The Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem]( is an uncharacteristically bland and unfocused mansion-crawl. Threads You Might Have Missed Tangency being Tangency, this thread eventually goes in a weird direction, but initially it features some great historical discussion: [The Dark Ages: what was actually dark, and what wasn't?]( There was some gaming thing in Indianapolis last week and as a part of that I guess they handed out some awards or whatever. Anyway, talk about the winners here and some related gaming products here: [Ennies 2019 winners.]( And, this thread is about a great idea that more games should act on: [Using the Great Pendragon Campaign Structure in Other Games with Metaplot.]( Sign Off Have a good week, everyone. - Iustum Newsletter Editor [Unsubscribe from mailing list]( [Visit RPGnet Forums](