Beginners & Box Sets

In my ongoing quest to write a good beginner's guide to RPGs I have run into a few RPG box sets. It used to be that any game worth its salt would have a box set of the rules, but somewhere in the mists of time they died out altogether. I was pleasantly surprised to see box sets starting to appear a few years ago, culminating in the return of the D&D...

Categories: Beginner's Guide, Box Sets, DnD 4e, Doctor Who, Dragon Age, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Mouse Guard, Pathfinder, Warhammer Fantasy 3e

What are the best free RPGs for beginners?

I have been hard at work on writing a good, system-agnostic beginner's guide to tabletop role playing. I want a guide that any group of role players can point a prospective player at that will give them a good overview of the hobby along with some starting points. One of the sections in this guide recommends games for beginners and I really want a...

Categories: Beginner's Guide, Free RPG, New Players, Open d6, Swords and Wizardry, Warrior Rogue and Mage, WEG d6

A review of In Between (Polish version)

I was browsing the posts over at RPG Kepos and discovered that their Polish translation of In Between has been reviewed, and positively at that.The review was from a blog named K20 and got a score of 3 our 5 which, if I understand the comments, is a pretty good score coming from this particular reviewer. One of the issues that the reviewer had with In Between is that The Wasteland was too empty and...

Categories: In Between, K20, Poland, RPG Kepos