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Hi all! In case you missed the updates on twitter, here’s an exciting announcement: starting on April 4th, I’ll be running a fortnightly Star Wars Saga Edition game on my twitch channel, www.twitch.tv/spilledalestudios! My amazing players will be @Fuzzb0x, @litzabronwyn, @SpaceMoose34, @XPartay, with an open fifth slot for the occasional guest player. Want to know more? I’ve released a brief

Update 20/01/2020: The author has made me aware of updates to the adventure which occurred between my receipt of the review copy and my posting the review. These additional elements are now factored into the review.  Today’s review is First Adventure by Leonardo Benucci. The product’s title is apt: it’s a first for me too! In my

Spilled Ale Studios now has an itch.io store! The store has launched with three pieces of stock art, and will expand in time. When our agreement with DriveThruRPG has transitioned to non-exclusive terms, you can also expect some RPG products to be added to the itch.io store as well! Spilled Ale Studios is now on

All products are 50% off until the 1st of January 2020 when added to your OneBookShelf cart using the special discount button(s) on this post! This is important: OBS special discounts are resolved as links which add an item directly to your cart. The product page links are therefore solely for the purpose of previewing a

A very interesting product has crossed my metaphorical desk: Eberronicon, A Pocket Guide to the World. Project lead Laura Hirsbrunner asked if I’d like to review it and clearly my answer was “yes”! My interest is partly curiosity: Eberron sort of passed me by. I did own the campaign setting, which was released at a

Today I’m reviewing an upcoming DMsGuild product from a team of DMsGuild creators led by Steve Fidler (author of Prism: Light & Magic, among others; and also a contributor to Infamous Adversaries, which I recently reviewed) The product in question is the inaugural volume of Amarune’s Almanac, a series of books exploring the various biomes of

My latest product is out now on DMsGuild.com! Ghostwalker: Eidolon revisits the concept of Eidolons, or corporeal ghosts, which first appeared in the D&D 3.5 campaign setting Ghostwalk. Ghostwalker: Eidolon converts the Eidolon and Eidoloncer classes to D&D 5e without relying on the lore of the Ghostwalk setting. Strictly setting neutral, you can use this product to

Today’s post is a review is of Benjamin Huffman presents: Infamous Adversaries, an upcoming product for DMsGuild, which I will hereafter refer to as Infamous Adversaries or simply IA.Players should stop reading immediately. This is a book for Dungeon Masters, and I’ll be briefly summarising all the excellent adversaries that might tempt your DM into buying this book and incorporating

Read Part I of this series!Last time, we covered the general themes and gameplay elements this game hack seeks to support in play. We also talked about the concept of character taxonomy in D&D and how Horizon Zero Dragons reworks that taxonomy. Finally, we made a start on changes to the rules as they apply