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Kevin Stacy

About Kevin Stacy

Kevin is a long-time tabletop roleplaying games, comic books, and film enthusiast with a background in writing and theater. He is the Host of the Game Knight Heroes podcast, where he narratively tells stories using dice. He also includes being a father and a husband as his greatest achievements.

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Nightfell D&D 5E TTRPG Setting Review – Welcome to the Lunar Age

Nightfell D&D 5E TTRPG Setting Review – Welcome to the Lunar Age

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Mana Project Studio has traveled into the dark to illuminate you with the Nightfell D&D 5E TTRPG Setting, a grimdark Horror using the rules of the world’s most well-known game of heroes battling monsters. Gloom, death, and decay are apparent with every page turn, and the art is beautiful. Never before has a world of doomed fantasy felt so enticing; with a host of new options and a richly tailored game world, Nightfell beams in its execution. One will find that monsters lurk around every corner and guide your gaming group as they seek to survive the dark world from author and concept designer Angelo Peluso. This dark world is Iurmen, where The Last Sun burned out centuries ago, creating a cold and desolate present. Survivors in this new land have found themselves changed, and sometimes not for the better. Dark new magics that corrupt the soul and ancient creatures once thought legend roam the eternal night to slake their thirst. You’re not alone – the game’s Dungeon Master (referred to as

Ink TTRPG Review – Innovative Combat System Built Upon Playing a Dual-faced Character

Ink TTRPG Review – Innovative Combat System Built Upon Playing a Dual-faced Character

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Have you ever wondered what happens after your tabletop roleplaying game character dies? Now, with the Ink TTRPG by Snowbright Studio, you can tell that tale – and the experience is a lesson in acceptance, healing, and community, all classic staples of Snowbright’s mission statement. Ink is the latest game by the LGBTQA+ gaming company that seeks to answer the question: What comes next? With an innovative new combat system and the chance to play nigh-immortal Spirits on a quest to rest in peace, Ink scratches an itch not tackled in most games – it lets you play the game AFTER you die. Every character in the Ink TTRPG is a recently departed soul who awakens in the limbo-purgatory world known as The Ink. There, they will find a common cause: rediscover your lost memories, overcome the Burden that won’t let you move on, and survive the horrifying creatures that guard your End. Oh, we didn’t mention the monsters yet? The world of Ink makes a departure from the previous games by

Shiver: Double Feature TTRPG Review

Shiver: Double Feature TTRPG Review

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The chill of mist-filled night. The howl of distant wolves. The leer of hungry, ravenous undead. Welcome to the world of Shiver, the tabletop roleplaying game by Parable Games! Shiver and Shiver: Double Feature are created by Charlie and Barney Menzies and is a full, setting-agnostic TTRPG designed to emulate your favorite horror movies. With a fast, exciting, and creative narrative combat system and killer art from Ben Alexader, the game will surely slay your RPG lull. The system first gained notoriety with its highly-successful Kickstarter of the core game in 2020. Shiver: Tabletop Roleplaying in the Strange and Unknown made a killing in the field – it later went on to win the People’s Choice Award of 2022 and the “Best New RPG Award” at the 2021 UK Game Expo. Earlier this year, the masked killer struck again with the beautifully illustrated Shiver: Gothic, an expansion and stand-alone rules set to the game.  The big new game in town is the Shiver: Double Feature, which has two new rulesets

Rule of Chaos Review – Demonic 5e Setting

Rule of Chaos Review – Demonic 5e Setting

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Rule of Chaos has created a new setting and ruleset for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. Published by Alexander Amstler, it is a new way to play your favorite ttrpg by focusing play onto powerful demons of various shapes and sizes. Rule of Chaos – Demonic 5E features 6 new playable demon races, 10 re-imagined classes, and hundreds of new magic item, subclass, and template combinations that will never make the same game! This review is based upon the initial release document “Ambergleam’s Demise”, a 119-page adventure and rulebook available now from the Rule of Chaos website. Rule of Chaos – Demonic 5e allows Player Characters to be demons, and the varying different forms allow for some unique gameplay options. From the shapeshifting Morpher Demon to the powerhouse Hellstruct Demon and (my humble personal favorite) the animated object Objectoid Demon, there’s a ton of new and unique ways to play demonic characters. Each has unique powers and abilities designed from the ground up to be completely compatible with the rules

Oddfish Games’s Radiance Adventure Engine lights the way for Solo TTRPG Play

Oddfish Games’s Radiance Adventure Engine lights the way for Solo TTRPG Play

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We’ve all been there: You’ve got the urge to play your favorite tabletop roleplaying game. You want the thrill of telling a great story, tossing some dice, and making instant memories. The only problem: your gaming group’s on hiatus, or you’re travelling for a work trip, or – in today’s pandemic world of self-isolation – you’re not able to meet with friends. The only option before was to simply pine over our lost hobby and dream if the good ol’ days. But now, there’s hope: A light that shines at the end of this proverbial tunnel: The Radiance Adventure Engine. Mike Howlett of Oddfish Games has created the ultimate ttrpg solution to the lonely-player’ blues: A gaming system that You can use by yourself for ANY game in ANY system. In the Radiance Adventure Engine, you are both the Player and the Game Master, and the story belongs completely to you and the system of your choice. Radiance is not a combat simulator; there’s no rules for any ttrpg outcomes.

Wicked Ones TTRPG Review

Wicked Ones TTRPG Review

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The Wicked Ones TTRPG by Bandit Camp Games is a new tabletop roleplaying game being funded on Kickstarter along with its new expansion, Undead Awakening. In both books, Player Characters play as monsters building a dungeon together and slaying adventurers – it’s heavily inspired by the PC game Dungeon Keeper.  Both games are currently on Kickstarter in a high-quality print run of the successful 2019 Kickstarter of the original (digital-only) Wicked Ones campaign. Get Ready to Play as The Bad Guys Author and designer Ben Nielson has created a nuanced game that puts the players into the reverse role of the monsters looking to raid, pillage, and slay the heroes of typical pen-and-paper dice games, and the system truly shines in its tone and theme. He’s masterminded a game that definitely knows what niche it’s trying to fill, and the options inherent in the game lean towards that end. The Wicked Ones TTRPG uses a modified (see expanded) Forged in the Dark system, originally made famous by the Blades in

D&D Dragons of Stormwreck Isle Starter Set Review – Dungeons and Dragons

D&D Dragons of Stormwreck Isle Starter Set Review – Dungeons and Dragons

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The newest Dragons of Stormwreck Isle Starter Set from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro showcases a tutorial-style approach mixed with a classic adventure style to bring brand-new players into the fold. The starter set features everything you need to explore your first campaign – but its emphasis on new players may leave experienced players looking for another plot hook. The adventure begins with the group of 3-6 players (as in typical Dungeons and Dragons fashion, one player is the Dungeon Master, who leads the story) arriving at the titular Isle. From there, they become embroiled in a quest to aid a group of natives in finding a missing student. A battle with zombies, exploration of a damaged pirate ship, and a showdown at an Observatory round out the adventure, which takes players from 1st level to 3rd level. Dragons of Stormwreck Isle is straightforward and direct, and it features many classic D&D creatures that are iconic to the game, including kobolds, undead, and – slight spoiler – dragons. (I noted

The One Ring RPG Review – This Free League Publishing RPG is our Precious

The One Ring RPG Review – This Free League Publishing RPG is our Precious

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And in the End of the Third Age of Man, A Free League forges a new One Ring… The One Ring RPG, Second Edition, from Free League Publishing, is the newest tabletop journey into the world of The Lord of the Rings. In it, a group of adventurers (called Player-heroes) are led by a Loremaster as they tell tales in Middle Earth. The game shines with a multi-turned exploration system with simple mechanics and character-focused play. The system is designed to emulate the world- and time-spanning works of JRR Tolkien, and it delivers with each new page turn. The game is driven by 12- and 6-sided dice and features an exploration and roleplay story. The “crunch” is relatively simple: for all task resolution, a Player will roll a default of 1 Feat (12-sided) Die and a number of Success (6-sided) Dice equal to their rating in their appropriate ability (1 of 15 different features). Additional situational effects will increase or decrease these numbers, such as being Favored by the grace