http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:44:11 -0700 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:36:16 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Redundant-Review-Savage-Worlds-Super-Powers-Companion?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Sometimes, I look at a product and wonder why I'm writing a review. This is one of them. If you're into Savage Worlds, you're probably going to buy this. If you're into supers games, you probably have a system of choice already by might by this to mi... RPG review Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:36:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Redundant-Review-Savage-Worlds-Super-Powers-Companion?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Attempted-Review-Warhammer-Fantasy-Roleplay-PDF?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) was kind enough to provide me with a PDF of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook for review purposes. This isn't the full boxed set with all the bells and whistles, but my hope was that it might prove its point that it i... RPG review Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:18:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Attempted-Review-Warhammer-Fantasy-Roleplay-PDF?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d14-Review-Portrait-of-a-Villain-The-Desire?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner The 57-page PDF is the premiere product from Nevermet Press. It details a single villain to be used as a recurring antagonist in your Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition game, but the material can easily be adapted for use with the system of your choi... RPG review Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:36:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d14-Review-Portrait-of-a-Villain-The-Desire?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d11-Follow-Friday-Five-Roleplayer-Birthday-Edition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Today is the birthday of Jess Hartley http://twitter.com/jesshartley, best known for writing all kinds of awesome White Wolf stuff and running amazing LARP games at conventions. Word on the street is that she's holed up in a cabin somewhere working o... Twitter Follow Friday Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m12d11-Follow-Friday-Five-Roleplayer-Birthday-Edition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Review-The-Cthulhu-Mythos-Encyclopedia?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner This is, by far, the best campaign reference book for any game involving the Cthulhu Mythos. Alphabetical entries on people, places, and things from stories by Lovecraft and other influential writers of the Cthulhu Mythos, including Robert E. Howard,... RPG review Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:25:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Review-The-Cthulhu-Mythos-Encyclopedia?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Review-Real-American-HEROes?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Real American H.E.R.O.es is yet another in a long line of knockoff G.I. Joe roleplaying games, or as Crafty Games euphemistically calls it, "four color military fantasy". One would think that at some point Hasbro would take the hint and pro... RPG Roundup Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:50:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Review-Real-American-HEROes?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Review-Uncle-Cucuys-Lucha-Libre?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Uncle Cucuy's Luche Libre is an 8-page PDF billed as "The dice game of Mexican Wrestling". There's a half-page explaining the way of the luchadore, which you probably don't need if you've picked this product up. In short, you place a masked... RPG Roundup Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:54:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Review-Uncle-Cucuys-Lucha-Libre?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Review-Laser-Ponies?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Laser Ponies is a 24 page PDF detailing a very special setting for the QAGS game system. It's a game intended for kids, and those of us who are kids at heart, based on tropes from 80s-style cartoon shows. You play a pony, brightly-colored or wearing ... RPG review Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:26:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Review-Laser-Ponies?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Review-Supernatural-RPG?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Before I get into this review, I have a confession to make. I have never seen the Supernatural television show. Not so much as an episode. Before reading this PDF for review, I had a vague awareness that it was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer-meets-the Ha... RPG review Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:24:52 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Review-Supernatural-RPG?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Review-Big-Damn-Heroes-Handbook?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner The Big Damn Heroes Handbook is a sourcebook for the previously reviewed Serenity Role Playing Game, and using the Cortex system. It's got new Traits, new combat rules, expanded ship rules, information on Chinese culture in the 'Verse including more ... RPG review Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d23-Review-Big-Damn-Heroes-Handbook?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Review-Serenity-Role-Playing-Game?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Before I even opened up this PDF to look at the game, I'd heard mixed reviews. People I know seemed to be even divided between "I absolutely love it" and "I utterly dispise it". No one could give me any specifics about what drove ... RPG review Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:50:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Review-Serenity-Role-Playing-Game?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Review-Mutants--Masterminds-Golden-Age-sourcebook?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner After I decided to run Adventures Into Darkness (the Mutants & Masterminds version) at RinCon '09, I purchased a PDF copy of the Golden Age sourcebook. I didn't end up using it for that one-shot game, but I've been leaning on it heavily for the l... RPG review Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:40:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Review-Mutants--Masterminds-Golden-Age-sourcebook?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Review-Hollow-Earth-Expedition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner It was over a year ago that I first played a demo game of Hollow Earth Expedition at Ides of Gaming. I enjoyed it greatly and bought the PDF version soon afterward, but didn't give it another look until I recently become involved in a couple of campa... RPG review Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:51:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Review-Hollow-Earth-Expedition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Follow-Friday-5-RPG-people-to-follow-on-Twitter?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner There's a tradition on Twitter called Follow Friday, where you post a hash tag (#followfriday or #ff) and list interesting people you follow and think others should follow. The only problem with Follow Friday is that in 140 characters it's difficult ... Twitter Follow Friday Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:54 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Follow-Friday-5-RPG-people-to-follow-on-Twitter?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Boyan-Radakovich-Director-of-RinCon-on?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Boyan Radakovich (Tucson) is the public face for the Southern Arizona Gamers Association (SAGA), a 501-c (3) non-profit corporation whose charter is to promote a culture of family gaming and to foster a closer relationship between the community at la... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Boyan-Radakovich-Director-of-RinCon-on?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Review-James-Bond-007-RPG?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner After 25 years, one of my favorite roleplaying games remains James Bond 007. Yet in all that time, I've never written a review. As I'm very likely going to be in a new campaign using the system in the near future, I thought it was time to give it a g... RPG review Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:39:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Review-James-Bond-007-RPG?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Follow-Friday-5-RPG-Bloggers-Network-edition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner There's a tradition on Twitter called Follow Friday, where you post a hash tag (#followfriday or #ff) and list interesting people you follow and think others should follow. The only problem with Follow Friday is that in 140 characters it's difficult ... Twitter Follow Friday Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:03:40 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Follow-Friday-5-RPG-Bloggers-Network-edition?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Read-through-Cortex-Role-Playing-Game-System?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner One of the reasons I've put off reviewing Cortex (and the products that use the system, such as the Serenity and Supernatural RPGs) for so long is because it's incredibly similar to Savage Worlds. It's not a matter of game designers ripping each othe... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:54:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Read-through-Cortex-Role-Playing-Game-System?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Profile-Laughing-Moon-Girl-Lessa-Randall?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Lessa Randall is a "Laughing Moon Girl", one of several players in author Todd VanHooser's roleplaying game set in the world of his fanasy novel. The girls show up at conventions, in costume as their characters, to support Todd, his novels ... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:07:39 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Profile-Laughing-Moon-Girl-Lessa-Randall?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Profile-Laughing-Moon-Chronicles-author-Todd-VanHooser?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner Todd VanHooser (Phoenix) is an author, educator, and game designer. Examiner.com caught up with him at RinCon '09 (Tucson), and later talked to him about his novel The Barren 12, the first part of the Laughing Moon Chronicles, and the game based on t... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:55:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-7705-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Profile-Laughing-Moon-Chronicles-author-Todd-VanHooser?cid=exrss-Phoenix-RPG-Examiner