Review Kobold Press Monster Vault 2
I was a backer for Kobold Press’s Monster Vault 2. Here’s what I thought about it:
By EricMesa
Read More About the Monster Vault 2 from Kobold Press...I was a backer for Kobold Press’s Monster Vault 2. Here’s what I thought about it:
By EricMesa
Read More About the Monster Vault 2 from Kobold Press...For most (if not all) of the past 20 years I’ve had the same tagline on the blog: “Insights on fatherhood, technology, culture, photography, and politics”. It is still TECHNICALLY accurate, but it doesn’t really reflect the balance of posts for the past few years. I’ll be changing it soon and just wanted to document it here since it’s been the tagline for so long.
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read moreA while ago I wrote about the need to spend money for each publishing type of a TTRPG “book”. My opinion at the time was that the PDFs should come for free with the physical books and I was annoyed, but somewhat understanding of the need to charge extra for a VTT version of the book. My thoughts have evolved somewhat, so I wanted to write an updated post on the different ways a book could be published and what I thought about it.
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Read More About my thoughts on TTRPG sourcebooks...Before the group sets out Appeluna’s patron tells her that she’s doing a good job and grants her access to more power (meta: attains lvl 6).
It’s a 3 day journey to Reywald. The first two days and nights were uneventful. On the third night Ariana’s on watch. She falls asleep for a second and when she awakens just a few minutes later the package from Aalthic Bellin, the sorcerer, is stolen. She wakes up the rest of the party and tells them what happened.
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Read More About what happened at ReywaldAs I mentioned back in my May 2025 Kickstarter update, I backed the Kobold Press Tales of the Valiant Labyrinth kickstarter. I got my materials recently and made the following videos to review the final product.
This is about the content of the Beadle and Grimm’s GM Vault:
This one is about the FoundryVTT Modules:
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Read More About ...Scrabble spends the next week doing some tinkering. He also offers up repair skills and fixes clocks for caravan. Finally, Scrabble spent the week teaching Seno how to use smithing tools.
Seno used the travel time to study a new cantrip and also joins the caravan as a guard. Ghada researched Goblins (meta: gains advantage one time in a future encounter)
A week later, the caravan arrived at the town of Fernhaven. The party helpe dto unload supplies at The Pierced Hart Inn. They are offered a room at the inn. Scrabble negotiated to play bagpipes or lute for the guests later.
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Read More About out second session of The Pyros ...The team took a week in Wollerton to recover from their efforts to free the area from the machinations of the Servants of Nidhogg. The local Baron gave them each 100GP and a plot of farmland. At first they thought to set up a base in Wollerton, but it was deemed too remote. They decided to lease the farmland for a rent of 10cp per month. Gratiosa’s parents also sent them a reward of 600GP for freeing her and also said they would put in a good word with Appeluna’s parents.
By EricMesa
Read More About what happened to the adventutersAs I mentioned back in my May 2025 Kickstarter update, I backed the Kobold Press Tales of the Valiant Labyrinth kickstarter. I got my materials recently and made the following videos to review the final product.
This is about the content of the books:
This one is about the physical product:
By EricMesa
Read More About ...Last year I was a Kickstarter backer for Faster Purple Worm, Kill! Kill! By Beadle and Grimm. (Available for Pre-Order here). I was originally going to use it as a low-stakes way to introduce some family and friends to TTRPGs. It would be low-stakes since everyone is expected to die at the end anyway, so no one has to feel sad or disappointed if they die since it’s expected. However, the timing of getting together hasn’t worked out well recently.
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Read More About my first time running a game from Faster Purple Worm...Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This is the lowest rating I have given an October Daye book. It mostly comes down to the final chapter, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
This should have been a book I loved. It had ALL the lore. We almost (as far as I know) know the answers to all the things - what happened to Oberon and his wives. How was The Ride broken and what were the consequences. What has The Sea Witch’s plan for Toby been all along? We now know all that and more. Also at this point Toby is firing on all cylinders. She knows how to rely on her friends and family. Everything was going to well until we got to that final chapter….
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