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
-
2024 DMG – First Look: The Dungeon Master’s Guide to Pandemonium – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E132
Show Notes Get ready, adventurers—this week on the RPGbot.podcast, we’re cracking open the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide (aka “D&D 5.5: Now with Extra Crunch!”) and going deep! From traps to revamped monster mechanics, and maybe a bit too much love for Lesser Restoration, we’re tackling it all. Is Greyhawk back? Are magic item prices going up?…
-
PF2E WAR OF IMMORTALS PART 2 – Welcome Mortals to the War of Immortality – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E129
Show Notes In part 2 of this RPGBOT.Podcast: Pathfinder 2’s War of Immortals—where mythic feats, tech glitches, and epic laughs collide! Join us as we break down Bloodragers, Avengers, and the glorious chaos that is the Warrior of Legend (warning: may break your party and your friendships). Mythic Points? Mythic destinies? We’re covering it all and…
-
Widow’s Web: Trials of the Drow Is a Novel Take on PVP in DnD
Introduction The creators of Widow’s Web are taking a novel approach to PVP in 5e Dungeon and Dragons. While typical PVP is typically direct single or squad-based combat, Widow’s Web pits the players against each other in a gauntlet of challenges aimed to gradually eliminate players until a single player emerges triumphant. It lands somewhere…
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
- Daggerheart
- DnD 5e
- 2024 DMG – First Look: The Dungeon Master’s Guide to Pandemonium – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E132
- 2024 PLAYER’S HANDBOOK: The RPGBOT.Review – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E87
- 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
- QUESTS FROM THE INFINITE STAIRCASE – The RPGBOT.Review – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E85
- Spelljammer: Adventures in Space – RPGBOT.News S2E67
- VECNA, EVE OF RUIN (Warning: Spoilers!) – The RPGBOT.Review – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E56
- 3rd-Party Publishers
- Frog God Games: The End of Everything – RPGBOT.News S3E85
- FRONTIERS OF EBERRON – QUICKSTONE – Keith Baker has just clowned on everybody – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E108
- Kobold Press’s Book of Ebon Tides – RPGBOT.News S2E75
- Kobold Press’ Tome of Beasts 1 (2023) – RPGBOT.News S3E60
- Kobold Press’s Tome of Beasts 3 – RPGBOT.News S2E101
- Tome of Alchemy
- Fate of the Norns
- Forbidden Lands
- Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5e
- Imperium Maledictum
- Marvel Multiverse RPG
- Mörk Borg
- The One Ring 2e
- Pathfinder 2e
- Book of the Dead – RPGBOT.News S2E38
- Crown of the Kobold King with Paizo Creative Director James Jacobs – RPGBOT.News S2E89
- Kingmaker for PF2 with Paizo Creative Director James Jacobs – RPGBOT.News S3E1
- Howl of the Wild Review: Bigger, But Also Smaller Beasties – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E62
- MONSTER CORE REVIEW: Pathfinder 2e Remaster Project from Paizo – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E35
- PLAYER CORE 2: The RPGBOT.Review – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E95
- Rage of Elements – RPGBOT.News S3E65
- TIAN XIA WORLD GUIDE: Pathfinder Lost Omen’s Eleanor Ferron and James Case – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E41
- PF2e WAR OF IMMORTALS – It’s just really a cool system! – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E126
- PF2E WAR OF IMMORTALS PART 2 – Welcome Mortals to the War of Immortality – RPGBOT.Podcast S4E129
- Ruins of Symbaroum – 5e adaptation of Symbaroum from Free League Games
- Starfinder
- Tales of the Valiant
- Vaesen
