RPGBOT reviews products in both text and podcast format. Our podcast episodes frequently involve interviews with the creators, and both formats dive deep into the mechanics of RPG products with all of the crunchy rigor which RPGBOT is known for.
Note that reviews of adventures likely contain spoilers, but we do attempt to provide spoiler warnings before those occur in the article/episode.
Most Recent Product Reviews
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1985 Games’ Dungeon Craft: Fallen Kingdom – A Review
The Forgotten Kingdom box set is themed around lost temples, ancient civilizations, and jungles. Think Indiana Jones: The Forbidden Temple, Tomb of Annihilation, Chult, and similar stories. The tiles include a lot of mossy stone environments, structures and objects built from wood, bone, and rough stone, and plenty of object tiles to decorate them further.
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Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum – A Review
Imperium Maledictum’s mechanics are solid, well-explained, and extremely approachable. They convey an excellent sense of the danger and struggle of the Warhammer: 40,000 setting, while also empowering the characters to succeed as individual people in a massive and detailed setting. Overall, I’m very impressed, and I’m excited to play this.
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1985 Games’ Dungeon Craft – A Review
The folks from 1985 Games were kind enough to send us review copies of some of their Dungeon Craft terrain pieces and their reusable BattleMaps, so I spent some time digging through them. What is Dungeon Craft? Dungeon Craft is a system of double-sided, 2d tiles used to represent specific items on your typical 1-inch grid. Tiles come in boxed sets with a thick stack of sheets with a huge number of tiles in them. The tiles are both wet erase and dry erase friendly, making them easy to do things like marking points of interest, numbering identical enemies, or
RPG Product Reviews by Game System
- ALIEN RPG – The official ALIEN RPG built on the YEar Zero Engine by Free League Games
- Call of Cthulhu
- Cypher System
- DnD 5e
- Baldur’s Gate 3 – RPGBOT.News S3E72
- Deck of Many Things – RPGBOT.News S3E92
- Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen – RPGBOT.News S2E97
- Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel – RPGBOT.News S2E57
- Keys from the Golden Vault – RPGBOT.News S3E17
- Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk – RPGBOT.News S3E73
- Planescape: Adventures In The Multiverse – RPGBOT.News S3E84
- Spelljammer: Adventures in Space – RPGBOT.News S2E67
- 3rd-Party Publishers
- Fate of the Norns
- Forbidden Lands
- Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5e
- Marvel Multiverse RPG
- Mörk Borg
- The One Ring 2e
- Pathfinder 2e
- Ruins of Symbaroum – 5e adaptation of Symbaroum from Free League Games
- Tales of the Valiant
- Vaesen
