Essentially, The Way of War (TWIW) promotes itself as being a ‘universal miniatures system’ but upon playing it a bit with some generic figures I’ve come to the conclusion that this might be a grandiose statement.

Iron Crown Enterprises has been a warhorse of the RPG field, managing to eke out a living while most RPG companies wither and fade…while I might personally prefer R. Talsorian’s design aesthetic to ICE’s in-house ROLEMASTER system, it’s hard to argue with the persistence of vision this company has had.

The Sidekick Sourcebook is the companion book to the Blood of Heroes RPG. In it, you’ll find updates to previous rules, new powers, skills, drawbacks, combat rules, and more. There’s also new characters that can be used for exisiting campaigns, and a starter scenario for those first-time BoH players.

CJ Carella’s WitchCraft is now in its second incarnation, having burned up one of its nine lives on a failed foray from Myrmidon Press in 1996. It has been resurrected by Eden Studios, who seems to be competing with Atlas as the Company Who Breathes New Life Into Games Previously Dead.

So I was pretty impressed that Fantasy Flight, the company that released Twilight Imperium and its many high priced add-on sets, has now released a series of very reasonably priced, pseudo-miniature style wargames called DISKWARS.

Get ready for some screaming space battles in Mag*Blast, a card game for two to six players. In it, you’ll find yourself blasting opponents’ ships in an attempt to reach the heart of their fleet–the Flagship.

Realism isn’t necessarily a good thing in a game, whether it’s a role-playing game or miniatures wargaming, depending on the Game Master and the players involved. The amount of detail in a game is part of that realism, and the Battletech Master Rules often sacrifice detail for playability and smoothness.

Since the dawn of RPGs, publishers have tried to produce a viable swashbuckling-themed RPG. GDW’s En Garde was one of the first post-D&D RPGs to hit the market. 7th Sea aims to succeed where others have failed.

The Sorcerer RPG goes along the lines of this: “You are a Sorcerer, but you do not ‘cast spells.’ Instead, you breaks the laws of what we humans call Reality to summon, bind, and command beings that are Not Supposed to Be Here. You are an outlaw - the ultimate in arrogance.

Remember Keep on the Borderlands, that module with the crazy dungeon and the keep full of people who did not have names? Well, forget that moldy old tome. Return to the Keep on the Borderlands (RTKB) is here.