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RPZine Issue 2 - Bug Hunt
par Alan S. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 02/04/2022 10:40:07

"I only need to know one thing...where they are."

I'm honestly stupid in love with the movie Aliens and I don't thnik I have ever had so much fun as I did playing this game. I did in all honesty quote as much as I could from the movie, much to the annoyance of my fellow players.

Now I have bought the bundle I cannot wait to throw my players into the world of (not quite) Hadley's Hope.

Well thought-out but simple mechanics allow this game to flow easily. Excellently different type of gaming.

Marines, get on the ready line. Lets get ready to die!!!...and so forth.



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RP Zine Issue 4 - The Drome
par Alan S. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 02/02/2022 15:09:56

Fab game, All things 1984 and more :) Complex and inventive, we loved playing this. Excllent artwork and a real change of pace from normal RPGs. Interesting endgame setup as well.



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Malice From the Middle Vale
par Paul B. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 09/26/2017 10:11:37

This is a great book! I have enjoyed reading it so far! I feel It has been created with care and heart. Very detailed with lore and atmosphere that really helps people like me really get into the story. If you enjoy gamebooks and are fans of Joe Devers LONE WOLF, You will enjoy this too! The system is great and feels fresh, but at the same time retains a classic gamebook feel. RECOMMENDED!



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Generic Floorplans - Mansion
par James G. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 07/02/2017 04:13:05

As with another reviewer, I needed something quick for an rpg session the next day. I took a chance on this mansion and it was perfect. Every possible view is provided including floor plans for every floor, a blue print, interior elevation and exterior views. What I loved best about it was that I was able to easily make modifications in Google Draw to customize it to my needs.



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The Stars Were Right
par Kai P. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 09/28/2016 05:41:55

The resolution might not be the highest on the market, but the picture looks good even as a desktop background picture.

According to the license we are talking about free artwork that may be used commercially [see the license link for details!], which is every DIY publishers wet dream in regard to quality work. And this -is- quality artwork. I put up a llink on my blog to promote it and I can see me using it as cover when the muse called Inspiration gifts me with a solid enough idea.

The only thing that I am unhappy with is that it is ofter as FREE instead of Pay-what-you-want: as soon as I use it commercially I would have loved to give a share back to the creators, but perhaps I can find a way on the flickrpage included in the article.

Thanks for the artwork!

The gods may mutate me so that I have more thumbs to hold UP for this!



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Forever Folio (May 2015)
par Alexander L. [Testeur star] Date Ajoutée: 05/13/2015 06:37:44

Originally published at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2015/05/13/tabletop-review-forever-folio-issue-1/

Forever Folio is the new house engine magazine from UK RPG publisher Forever People. Now I’ve never played Wyrd nor EVP, which are the two games they produce, but you DO get a free version of the Wyrd Game Systems and Settings with this Magazine, so that’s a nice bonus. I love gaming magazine and since this is a “Pay What You Want” release, it means that anyone (or everyone) can get it for free if they are hard up for cash or skeptical about the contents and quality. Of course, if you like what you see, you can always go back and give Forever People a few bucks or, better yet, purchase some of their games.

Because this magazine is a house engine, you should expect Forever Folio to focus on Forever People’s games, not some other companies. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be articles about non FP products though. In this very issue, there is a piece on a film called “The Dwarves of Demrel that is trying to raise 40K via crowdfunding on Kickstarter. I was backer #64 and honestly, it was this piece that drew me to trying out the magazine (besides my love of RPG mags) and also got me to download an adventure for EVP, which I’ll review later this month as well. There’s only a week left to help crowdfund “The Dwarves of Demrel” and it’s three-fourths of the way home so, consider backing it.

Anyway, let’s talk magazine contents. First up, there is a transcribed interview with Wyrd author David Sharrock. This original was posted online at RPG.net, but Forever Folio has cleaned it up, given the piece a nice layout and some pretty artwork and made it easier on the eyes all-around. There are still some errors though, like “rill” instead of “roll,” but the piece gives newcomers a good idea about what they can expect from Wyrd in terms of both setting and mechanics.

After that comes “The Unsung Weave,” which is the start a free short serialized campaign for Wyrd. Of course to run “The Unsung Weave,” you will three different books, so while the adventure is free, the experience is not. This adventure does feel like it can be ported over to other systems with a little work and it’s designed for new players/character so it’s a great way to get a feel for whether Wyrd is for you or not. Further issues of Forever Folio will continue the campaign so if you like what you see, keep getting the magazine.

The third article is the piece about “The Dwarves of Demrel.” Then you get a look at Forever People’s newest RPG, EVP. This interests me far more than Wyrd, and although this article is only a page long, it does a fine job of selling people on the concept of EVP. As I said, I do have an adventure for EVP that I’ll be reviewing and for now I’ll just say it comes with a LOT of .wav files.

The rest of the magazine consists of two articles on Mazes, Maps & Monsters which is designed to be a fantasy RPG for young children. The first article is a breakdown of the rules, along with an accompanying character sheet. The second is an adventure for the game entitled, “The Ruins of Peril,” complete with pictures of the ruins made in Legos. Adorable. Dung, the Philosophical Giant is the best NPC I’ve encountered all year.

All, in all, this is a fun first house engine magazine from Forever People. It did what it needed to and got me curious about the various products the company offers and as I said, I did download The Salem House Haunting for EVP, so that right there shows the magazine did its job. Forever Folio does feel like a bit of a soft sell from beginning to end, and it’s certainly geared towards people who are completely new to Wyrd and EVP, but it’s the first issue of a magazine – it SHOULD be an introductory piece. Anyway, Forever Folio was a fun read and I’d definitely recommend picking it up to see if any of the three games covered in this magazine are worth your time and money.



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Generic Floorplans - Starship
par Dale M. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 06/13/2014 12:45:34

Image itself: This floor plan is nice and worthy of 4 stars. The level of detail is high. I'm not excited about the font used for the "Airlock," "Caution," and "Restricted" labels but it is good enough and I won't hold it against the overall product. I'm knocking off a star because the interior layout is a little goofy and kinda maze-like. There's lots of space wasted on hallways. In general, ships should have a simple design, the simpler the better. Interesting note: man there are alot of bathrooms.

License: While the license itself is not the simplest I've seen, it is workable enough that I won't say anything negative against it.

Overall: This piece of artwork would be great for a future publication if it were not for a single detail: I don't think I can find an exterior ship image that will work with this floor plan. I'm not sure I can find one that I can say is "close enough." The overall shape can best be described as a shoe box. While not bad, there is much too it that is going to be difficult to work with. For example, 2-1/2 sides of the bottom deck exterior is covered with escape pods (9 in total) that only hold 2 people. Escape pods are good and all, but if there were 2 pods that held 10 people, and/or if they were built to be part of the ship's outer hull instead of bolted on, that would be easier to find an exterior ship image that worked with it. The two weapons mounts are in odd locations. Not bad, just peculiar and will, again, make it difficult to find an exterior image for the ship. So overall, I'm giving it 3 stars. I'd bump it up to 4 without a second thought if the artist sold an image of what the ship's exterior. Heck, I'd probably ignore the nitpicking at the beginning of this review and bump this up to 5 stars if the artist included an image of the ship's exterior.



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Réponse de l’éditeur :
Hi, thanks for taking the time to write a review and feedback Interesting (and fair) comment about the exterior image. As soon as current projects are complete I will endeavour to update this with a picture for publishers to use. Toilets: one per bunk, but I figured you can\'t just wander into someone\'s bunk if you\'re a visitor, so some WCs for guests too. Probably too many though and noted for the next floorplan ;-) The labyrinth style is probably influenced more by things like Star Trek than more straight forward designs (Serenity, for example) and I personally felt the complicated layout allows for lots of possibilities and scenarios where a simpler design might only come in handy as a basic centrepiece. I do have a product showing a ship with a simpler layout (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/98762/Generic-Floorplans--Steampunk-Battle-Cruiser) but the feel of that one is more steampunk and may not fit the bill. Please do watch this space as I have more of these planned and feedback really does help me to design the next batch so they deliver what publishers and gamers need. Thanks again.
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Generic Floorplans - Mansion
par Roderic W. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 03/12/2013 13:10:20

Overall a very good piece. My only complaint is that the script text is too small and can't be read when you print it out, unless you print it out at a huge size. This would be a 5 star product if the text was a separate layer you could turn off.



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Thanks for your review. The text size was selected on the supposition that the floor plans would be printed to 25mm miniatures scale as is the standard. However in future updates I will add a larger text version for the GMs reference.
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Generic Floorplans - Mansion
par Robert F. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 10/13/2012 08:23:37

This was one of those emergency purchases made just hours before game play. I needed a map for an old house. I was looking for something larger, but this one included a drawing of the exterior and profile cutaway. Those were not only very helpful, but the drawing was perfect to convey the dark, spooky mood. The floor plan was great and was a nice prop for my game. The only problem I had with the maps is that they printed at different scales, and I couldn’t figure out how to get them to print at 1” scale. I was in a hurry, so this was probably my own fault for not taking the time to figure it out. Even so, they were still large enough to do the job.



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Into The Pit 4 - Stairs and Passageways
par David W. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 04/28/2012 18:45:47

This set is very useful, and necessary for your maps. The color and quality of the set is top-notch, but the set seemed to lack something... Perhaps more variety in the tiles themselves. There was a few pages that were so close to the ones in the original set, that I wasn't sure that I didn't have them already.

The images are wonderful, as expected, but there are many images that seem to be repeated, and I think that the set could have been laid out a little better. One page had four copies of the same stairway. This could have been just ONE, and if someone wanted more, they could print that page several times. This is one case where "less is more."



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Thankyou for your feedback. I'm working on revamping the entire set and will take your comments onboard.
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Into The Pit 1 - Room Starter Set
par David W. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 04/24/2012 19:52:53

OMG! This set is AMAZING! It is packed with pages upon pages of some of the best artwork imaginable. The graphics and textures are better than any of this type I have seen. I printed of a few of the pages, and was so impressed, I had to print them all (and some like the hallways) several times.

There were a few things that I personally didn't care for. There was no consistency between the tiles. Some have 1" squares, and others didn't. The rooms were various sizes, but they don't seem to blend. I would have preferred the rooms been 5"x5", for example, with wallways and passages connected to the rooms themselves. This way, you could build a solid floor, and not have rooms of various sizes.

The biggest issue for me was the lack of a natural flow of the pieces. When you lay them on the table, it looks like beautiful rooms just scattered around. The lack a blending is disturbing, however, the artwork is so good, that you can't complain.

If some pieces are added (like more flexible corridors and hallways) in future sets, I could easily see myself purchasing the entire collection of these tiles.



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Réponse de l’éditeur :
Thanks so much for your review. In order to improve the floorplans could you contact me at chaugnurfaugn AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk and let me know a bit more specifically what it was about the consistency you didn't care for and tell me a bit more about what sort of thing you'd be after in the flexibility of corridors and hallways. I'm looking to overhaul the set to make version 2 and address some of the issues mentioned by reviewers so your feedback would be really helpful. If not, no worries and thanks for your purchase. Hope you get some good use out of the tiles!
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Generic Floorplans - Mansion
par Egil G. B. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 03/30/2012 13:13:26

I got more or less what I was aiming for at an OK price.

I would have preferred if there were several more versions of the maps, in varying sizes and with hexagonal tiles, and that there were a print ready version for various paper sizes as well.



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Into The Pit 9 - Pits and Traps
par Alexander L. [Testeur star] Date Ajoutée: 03/14/2012 07:11:51

Originally published at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2012/03/14/tabletop-review-into-the-pit-9-pits-and-traps/

Into the Pits 9 is a collection of 19 trapped rooms and pits that look quite promising. My favorite trap is a room where the floor slides away over the course of five map tiles. Some of the maps have swappable parts and two maps are spread across two files. Included is an interesting crossbow trap along with a set of passage-blocking walls. All the rooms and traps, save the one file of 6 “Assorted Pits”, are named:

Crossbow Trap Passage Blockers Five Diced Fingers and One Hidden Lever Flooded Chamber Guardian of the Key Lair of the Flesh Eating Fish Mezzanine of Enchanted Weapons Submerged Room Surprising Pit in 5 parts The Bridge of Scalding Steam The Burning Well The Chittering Guardian The Daemon Pit The Fragile Floor The Hungry Pit The Watery Tunnel Trap Trap of Tiles Stairs to Nowhere All these files are made available as 72 DPI .PNG files. Forever People advertises, in their supporting documentation, that the files are ready to be printed at 100%, but since they are sized initially at 11 inches by 15.569 inches, you have to tell your printer to fit the picture into the frame. This gives you a decent print that end up being less than 100 DPI. All of the files are far too dark to print in a black & white format and printing them full-color works, but isn’t as good-looking as it would be if they went with a higher resolution .JPG file format.

These files look great on the computer though and could be a great asset for a GM running a game on a virtual table top, like MapTool. The Surprising Pit in 5 parts room practically calls out for virtual table top use. The only problem with using these files on a virtual table is that every one needs to be edited before they can be used. The GM will need to crop the file to the usable portion and then resize it appropriately. I tested this out with one map where I could easily count out the grid squares and after cropping the picture I had to resize it to 99.6 DPI to get it to the same resolution it was when it was oversized. That only worked for one file. I tested to see if the separate files at least used the same sized grid squares, but they do not. Many virtual tabletops will let your resize the grid used in-game to match the grid on the map, but since it would difficult to match the grid on these traps to whatever map you are already using, this will only suffice if all the GM is showing the players is the trap.

Each file seems to have registration marks, as if they were originally destined for commercial printing. It seems that these files were simply reduced to a standard 11″x 15.569 size and saved as 72 DPI .PNG files. While the files look great on the computer, they are a bit more trouble than they are worth for regular use by most GMs.



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Réponse de l’éditeur :
Sorry to hear you're not happy with the product, though I'm a little confused as to your precise complaint. I tested the print before publishing (and again after reading your review) by opening each full page image in Windows Photo Viewer by simply double clicking each .png file provided in the zip folder. Most operating systems have a similar photo viewer. You don't need to (and shouldn't attempt to) import the files into image manipulation software or any kind of Photoshop type software to open and print the files (assuming that this is what you are doing in order to guage size and DPI). Printed from Windows Photo Viewer at 100% scale (where scale is not an option you should ensure you uncheck 'print to fit' or 'fit to frame' options as *these options will resize the image*) and choosing 300dpi (Windows Photo Viewer also gives the option of 600dpi) the full page prints with no cropping and to a good quality standard more than suitable for the average tabletop game. I've playtested all the plans and received nothing but positive reactions, both to the quality and the entertainment factor they add to a game. The images do print a little darker on paper/card than they appear on screen, though this can be amended slightly by printing onto matt photo paper if you want the highest quality. Some colour is also lost in most standard prints but this is intended, my hope being to add a dark atmosphere/feeling to the floorplans, making them suitable for dark fantasy as well as sword & sorcery. If the images are really printing for you as poorly as you seem to indicate I would check that your ink levels don't need topping up and that you're choosing the highest print quality where you have the option to choose. Also, print straight from file and not from image manipulation software. My only suggestion for the cropping problem (which is somewhat mystifying) is to try borderless printing, but I'm not sure why the floorplans should print fine and to the right size (one inch grid) for me and friends/playtesters who have printed them but not for you. The design is meant to present an old-school 'illustrated' feel rather than a glossy, High-Def Photoshopped or 3D software feel (if you would prefer this style there are lots of other floorplans that meet the criteria on Drive Thru/RPG Now). Perhaps the 'gritty' illustration feel is simply not to your preference in this instance? The floorplans are not suited for virtual tabletop use in their current format because, as you say, the grid is not millimetre perfect. I'm currently in talks with NBOS, makers of Fractal Mapper, with a view to releasing a virtual tabletop version of Into The Pit with much more accuracy in the grid. -David Sharrock (Forever People Digital Press)
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Into The Pit 9 - Pits and Traps
par Billiam B. [Testeur star] Date Ajoutée: 02/26/2012 12:58:05

There's some lovely elements in this set. I especially like the "Surprising Pit in 5 parts" - there's a different tile for each stage of the opening pit. Optional modular parts like a waterfall being interchangeable with a lavafall are a nice touch. There's plenty of unique whole-room pieces which can be used for one-off encounters as part of your own dungeon with your usual plans, but they probably look astounding when used with the other sets from the series. The style is colourful, very atmospheric - there's a good balance between computer-generated art and old style free-line details. Lots of imagination and creativity has gone into this. Inspiring stuff! -Billiam B. http://bit.ly/rpgblog



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1 Session Dungeons #4 - Trollstone Catacombs
par Christopher A. [Acheteur vérifié] Date Ajoutée: 01/31/2012 09:08:41

This is a handy little map. It's a good size for a 4-5 hour session once you dump some traps, encounters, and a little imagination into it. My only complaint is minor, which is that the grid is a little thick.



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