Reviews Archive

  • Game Review: Betrayal at House on the Hill

    Game Review: Betrayal at House on the Hill

    You start out as a single party, each player using his own character to comb through the old mansion in search of equipment and clues that will help you beat the haunted home in which you find yourselves trapped. Somewhere along the way, though, the evil that dwells here is going to reach a critical mass, and when it does it will pervert one of the hunters.

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  • Dungeon Crawl Classics #9:  Dungeon Geomorphs

    Dungeon Crawl Classics #9: Dungeon Geomorphs

    Publisher Goodman Games Writing Credits Cartography by Clayton Bunce, Chuck Whelon & Brad McDevitt Editing Art Credits Graphic design by Joseph Goodman Game Contents 32 pages, b&w Guidelines Book of Geomorphic Maps MSRP $10.99 Reviewer Andy Vetromile Games and geomorphic maps: They just seem to go together. Board games – everything from WizWar to RoboRally – […]

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  • Mead® Marble Composition Book, Quadrille and College-Ruled

    Mead® Marble Composition Book, Quadrille and College-Ruled

    ...I recently came across a product so intuitive and amazingly useful to gamers that I marveled that I hadn’t thought of it myself.

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  • Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies:  Dungeons & Dragons – the Movie

    Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies: Dungeons & Dragons – the Movie

    If you’re like me – and if you’re reading this there’s like a 75% chance you ARE me – then when you heard about a D&D movie coming out you probably wondered which property of TSR would provide the setting. Would it be a movie set in the World of Greyhawk, Blackmoor, or the Forgotten Realms? Would it have the characters from the Dragonlance series? Or feature the grim dark-elf Drizzt Do’Urden? Or would they be doing a live-action version of the eponymous cartoon series?

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  • Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies:  Hawk the Slayer

    Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies: Hawk the Slayer

    Hawk has gathered his party!    Title: Hawk the Slayer Directed by: Terry Marcel Genre: Sword & Sorcery I read (and until recently subscribed to) “Knights of the Dinner Table” gaming magazine. It was there that I first heard of this film. I’d never seen it before or heard of it. Yet when I asked […]

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  • Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies:  Deathstalker II – Duel of the Titans

    Movies for Gamers Who Like Movies: Deathstalker II – Duel of the Titans

    The plot is that a princess has been had a portion of her soul magically split off from her body and transformed into a Doppelganger. The “good” half has escaped and now ragged and penniless, seeks help to regain her throne. Deathstalker, the notorious thief and ne’er-do-well is convinced by the good half of the princess to assault her fortress and defeat the evil sorcerer who did this to her.

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  • The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made:  Matrix Revolutions

    The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Matrix Revolutions

    Well, okay, not all of these would make for great cinema. I mean, virtue vs. vice? Who wants to see the embodiment of patience take on an avatar of smoking?

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  • The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made:  Full Metal Jacket

    The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Full Metal Jacket

    Like so many of the movies on this list, this film’s strength lies in its first half. Stanley Kubrick’s observations about the horrors of human conflict (this bloody commentary on the Vietnam War predates Spielberg’s remarkable Saving Private Ryan by a decade and a half) begins in the seemingly much tamer world of marine boot camp.

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