Category: OGL Reviews (Page 1 of 2)

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Rolled & Told #2 October 2018 Review

Rolled & Told is a comic book-format successor to DUNGEON Magazine, publishing complete adventures, encounters, and advice articles monthly by Lion Forge and (as of Issue #2) spearheaded by E.L. Thomas and Christina “Steenz” Stewart. They lead a custom-built team of diverse authors and artists every issue. Issue #2 may have come out in October 2018, but I’m reviewing now because it’s also still available in Rolled & Told Volume 1, a hardcover compiling issues #0 through #6, plus additional material. You can find maps and even more at the Rolled & Told website.

Let’s take a look at each adventure and article below.

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Magic Item Card Catalog Collection for D&D 5E by Inkwell Ideas – Unboxing

Quick video for you folks today: the unboxing of the Magic Item Card Catalog Collection by Inkwell Ideas! This set of 9 themed decks of magic item cards captures every item in the SRD, gives you multiples of some of the most commonly used magic items (healing potions! But also a lot more than that), and gives you blank cards and customizable items for writing in your own special effects.

Highly recommended! You can pick up the Magic Item Card Catalog Collection here at Amazon, or pick them up here at Inkwell Ideas’ store in either or both physical and PDF form in case you want to print out extras of the most used items!

Enough chatter! Let’s take a look.

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Live to Tell the Tale – An Introduction to Combat Tactics for Dungeons & Dragons Players 1st Edition Review

NOTE! This review was originally posted to neurophaser.com on 5/30/2017, and looks at the First Edition of Live to Tell the Tale – An Introduction to Combat Tactics for Dungeons & Dragons Players. I’m posting it here because I plan to review the Second Edition very, very soon!

Live to Tell the Tale – An Introduction to Combat Tactics for Dungeons & Dragons Players by Keith Ammann — creator of the blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing — is an in-depth study of the combat system of D&D, as well as the class- and ability-related features of characters and how they can optimize their tactics (rather than their stats) to fight smart and work as a team while still playing the characters they want. This isn’t about building a “perfect” character so much as it’s about how to play smart and have fun doing it with whatever character you roll up, build, or are handed as a pregen. It is a necessary read for understanding the consequences and permutations of the D&D 5th edition rules, and can strengthen the game of every player and DM!

Rating: Content 5/5 and Form 4/5.

Buy the PDF at Spy & Owl <– ED. – This link now points to the Second Edition.

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Rolled & Told Issue #7 (March 2019) Review

Sporting the comic book format I love oh so much, Rolled & Told returns in March 2019 with two strong adventures, and a few articles that are worth a read, even when they aren’t touching on directly game-able material for you to use in D&D 5th edition. Overall, it’s another solid issue, but it does have a few minor formatting issues that I’d love to see rectified in future issues.

Rating: Content 4/5 and Form 3/5

Buy it here!

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Mini-Dungeon Tome Adventure Review: The Great Library by Jonathan Ely

The Great Library is a quintessential tier 2 dungeon crawl from the Mini-Dungeon Tome. It adheres to the old-school mentality that powers much of this book’s material: less is more; make it your own. As such, it offers some evocative details and challenges even on an otherwise fairly simple map. Additionally, the big bad guy makes for a fantastic recurring villain given his nature…

Rating: Content 4/5 and Form 4/5

Pick up the Mini-Dungeon Tome at DriveThruRPG and use the Mini-Dungeon Assistant at the AAW Games website to pick the adventure specs you want!

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