Month: July 2019
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement ICONS: Great Power by Steve Kenson
ICONS: Great Power by Steve Kenson is a supplement for the ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying Game published by Ad Infinitum Adventures. This supplement considers the various superpowers in the game and goes through them in greater depth, as well as expanding, refining and organising them better. The book is covered by the Open Game License and…
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Book Review: Hitman: Damnation
Book: Hitman: Damnation Author: Raymond Benson ISBN: 978-0-7553-9736-5 If you’ve played the Hitman games but haven’t heard of Hitman: Damnation, that’s because is not an unknown game in the series, but is rather a book. It’s a prequel to Hitman: Absolution and a sequel to Hitman: Blood Money. If you haven’t played the series it…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement ICONS Team-Up
ICONS Team-Up by Steve Kenson, Gareth-Michael Skarka and Morgan Davie is a supplement for the ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying game published by Adamant Entertainment. The ICONS system was originally published by Adamant Entertainment, but is now published by Ad Infinitum Adventures. This is the only supplement still published by Adamant. The book is covered by the…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement City of Wonder
City of Wonder by Steve Kenson is a role playing game supplement published by Schwalb Entertainment for use with Shadow of the Demon Lord. This is part of the Lands in Shadow range which describes various areas of Urth; in this case, Lij, one of the Confederacy of Nine Cities. This is an 8-page PDF…
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A Review of Field Guide to Superheroes Vol. 1 by Jason Tondro
Field Guide to Superheroes Vol. 1 by Jason Tondro and published by Vigilance Press is the first in a series of four supplements for the ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying system published by Ad Infinitum Adventures. The supplement describes ten superhero archetypes, with an actual superhero example given for each. The book is covered by the Open…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Everyman Minis: Malborgoroth
Everyman Minis: Malborgoroth by Alexander Augunas is a role playing game supplement published by Everyman Gaming through Rogue Genius Games for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is a bestiary covering…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Everyman Minis: Spells of Comedy
Everyman Minis: Spells of Comedy by Luis Loza is a role playing game supplement published by Everyman Gaming through Rogue Genius Games for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is a…
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Book Review: The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling
Book: The Peshawar Lancers Author: S.M. Stirling ISBN: 0-451-45873-7 S.M. Stirling‘s The Peshawar Lancers is set in the not too distant future, 2025, although a completely different one due to an alternate history. In 1878 Europe, the North Atlantic and North America were hit by a large number of meteorites of unknown origin. Most European…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement ICONS: A to Z by Steve Kenson
ICONS: A to Z by Steve Kenson and published by Ad Infinitum Adventures is a supplemental sourcebook for ICONS: Superpowered Roleplaying, in particular The Assembled Edition version. The material in this sourcebook was originally published as a series of 26 supplements, each covering a letter of the alphabet and a theme based around that letter.…
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A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement The Ruins of Undermountain II: The Deep Levels
The Ruins of Undermountain II: The Deep Levels boxed set is a supplement for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition game which was originally published by TSR. This is an expansion and the second supplement published for Undermountain, the megadungeon under the city of Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms setting. This was published as…