ReviewFantasy
Beowulf: Age Of Heroes by Jon Hodgson, David Rea and Jacob Rodgers (RPG review).
‘Beowulf: Age Of Heroes’ is an expansion to ‘Dungeons And Dragons 5e’ and so it assumes you have access to the basic Player’s…
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November 2020
NewsFantasy
Lord of the Rings fully rebuilt in Minecraft: ten glorious years of brickwitery (news).
So, Minecraft Middle-Earth is celebrating ten glorious years of brick-by-brick recreating JRR Tolkien’s fantasy world from, the Lord Of The Rings. They are…
October 2020
TrailerFantasy
Free Guy (think Tron/Matrix as a Ryan Reynolds comedy) (trailer).
In Twentieth Century Studios’ fantasy-comedy Free Guy, a bank worker called Guy discovers he is actually a NPC in an open-world video game.…
September 2020
NewsFantasy
Crusader Kings 3 review (game review: video).
Here’s our game review of Crusader Kings 3 from that legend known only as ASpec, a game which, like its predecessors Crusader Kings…
July 2020
NewsFantasy
The making of a role playing game: Stephen Hunt’s For The Crown and the Dragon (video).
An introduction to the Crown & Dragon RPG for Savage Worlds, based upon the classic novel by the fantasy author Stephen Hunt. For…
September 2019
ReviewFantasy
Assassin’s Creed #001 (comic-book review).
From its origins as a video game, the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ franchise has successfully been spun out into a number of different media, including…
August 2019
NewsFantasy
Is Dungeons & Dragons good for you in real life?
Can Dungeons & Dragons be the secret to your life success? It’s certainly back in the limelight now mainly thanks to streaming retro…
August 2015
ReviewFantasy
City Under The Sand (The Abyssal Plague Prelude book 3) by Jeff Mariotte (book review).
http://www.Dungeons&Dragons.com‘City Under The Sand’ takes place in the Dark Sun setting, an interesting anomaly among the various ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ worlds. It’s a…
November 2014
ReviewFantasy
Orcs War Fighting Manual by Den Patrick (book review).
Alongside his books on Dwarves and Elves, this ‘Orcs War Fighting Manual’, taken from the perspective of the Orcs gives an insight into…
ReviewFantasy
Elves War Fighting Manual by Den Patrick (book review).
Den Patrick’s trio of ‘War Fighting Manual’ books are portrayed as in-universe studies of a real where Elves, Dwarves and Orcs live alongside…
ReviewFantasy
Dwarves War Fighting Manual by Den Patrick (book review).
Passing this book, ‘Dwarves War Fighting Manual’, around among my more geeky friends, the usual response was something along the lines of ‘However…
February 2014
ReviewFantasy
Eschalon: Book III (PC Game review).
It has been 7 years since ‘Eschalon: Book I’ was released and although fans of ‘Eschalo’n had book 2 in 2010, it has…