Tales From the Gazebo – Star Wars Rebels: A Spark of Rebellion
Star Wars Rebels: A Spark of Rebellion
By Cape Rust
Last night I got a real treat and it isn’t even Halloween yet. Last night I got to watch the premier of the new animated series Rebels. I have been excited about this series from the first moment I heard about it. Like many other fans of Star Wars, I was worried about what the mouse and his minions might do with the beloved movies that helped...
Review: Raging Swan Press – Haunted House (Pathfinder)
Alternate Dungeons: Haunted House
Haunted House is an epic fantasy supplement for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by Alexander Augunas and published by Raging Swan Press.
By Cape Rust
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Prepare Quicker, Prepare Better. This is the mantra for Raging Swan Press, and for a product like Alternate...
Novel Review: Wizards of the Coast – Rise of the King
Rise of the King
Rise of the King is an epic fantasy novel, written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast.
By Cape Rust
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The drow are on the march and they have brought orcs, frost giants, ogre/goblins and even a couple of dragons. This looks like it will be their chance to finally crush the Silver...
Tales From the Gazebo – The Verse Short Film by Loot Crate
The Verse Short Film by Loot Crate
By Cape Rust
Hungering for more Firefly? Who isn’t? OK there are like three people who might not give a gorram about it, but those are not exactly the kind of people I want to deal with on a regular basis. Loot Crate has your six; they have just released a sixteen minute short film called The Verse. Now before you get all pissy and whining because you’ve seen...
Review: Third Eye Games – Year One (AMP)
Year One
Year One is a core rulebook for the AMP roleplaying game, written by Eloy Lasanta and published by Third Eye Games.
By Cape Rust
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AMP stands for people with Accelerated Mutant Potential. The year is 2015 and there is an emerging group of people exhibiting strange powers. These powers stem from experimentation...
Novel Review: Catalyst Game Labs – Fire & Frost (Shadowrun)
Fire & Frost
Fire & Frost is a fantasy cyberpunk novel set in the Shadowrun universe, written by Kai O’Connal and published by Catalyst Game Labs.
By Cape Rust
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Shadowrun is one of my all time favorite RPG settings. For any of you that have read my reviews, this won’t come as a big...
Tales From the Gazebo – Snowpiercer, One of the Best Movies you Might Not See
Snowpiercer, One of the Best Movies you Might Not See
By Cape Rust
This past weekend my wife and I found us divested of parental duties from supporting our teenaged daughters’ myriad activities and decided to have a date night. Now before you get all excited (I know that wasn’t the case), understand that rather than going out and painting the town red, we chose to stay at home have a nice...
Tales from the Gazebo – When a GM Says, “Are You Sure You Want to do That?”
When a GM Says, “Are You Sure You Want to do That?”
By Cape Rust
Sometimes you need to look before you leap…
I have an amazing gaming group; we get along and have a good time enjoying our hobby. Sure we all do things differently in game, but that is part of the fun of gaming after all. It would be no fun if we all approached a problem set in game the same way, each weekly session...
Tales from the Gazebo – Rebuilding the Gazebo with Plugable
Rebuilding the Gazebo with Plugable
By Cape Rust
As you can tell it has been a long time between Gazebo installments. Excuses are like underarms, everyone has them and they all stink, so no need for any of those….. The table-top gaming industry has continued to move forward and some of those advancements have been really exciting. D&D 5th Edition looms just over the horizon; Pathfinder continues...
Review: Catalyst Game Labs – Stolen Souls (Shadowrun)
Stolen Souls
Stolen Souls is a sourcebook for the fantasy cyberpunk Shadowrun, written by David Ellenberger, Jason M. Hardy, Philip A. Lee, Scott Schletz, and Michael Wich and published by Catalyst Game Labs.
By Cape Rust
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Catalyst Game Labs started going a different direction with their sourcebooks a few...
Novel Review: Wizards of the Coast – The Herald (The Sundering)
The Herald
The Herald is an epic fantasy novel from The Sundering series, published by Wizards of the Coast and written by Ed Greenwood.
By Cape Rust
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The last book in the extremely popular Sundering series from Wizards of the Coast has arrived and with it the era of D&D 4th...
Board Game Review: Lock N Load Publishing – All Things Zombie
All Things Zombie
All Things Zombie is a zombie board game, designed by Ed Teixeira and Mark H. Walker and published by Lock N Load Publishing.
By Cape Rust
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I am not a huge fan of the zombie craze that hit our nation these past few years. I’ve seen all of the required movies and read several of the must read zombie books, but I...
Novel Review: Wizards of the Coast – The Sentinel (The Sundering, Book IV)
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is an epic fantasy novel in The Sunder series, written by Troy Denning and published by Wizards of the Coast.
By Cape Rust
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A watchman in a corrupt city that is about to be overrun, notices a strange couple, a beautiful redhead with a weasel of a...
Novel Review : Hal Greenberg and Neal Levin – The Awakened
The Awakened
The Awakened is a fantasy fiction anthology edited by Hal Greenberg and Neal Levin and published by Samurai Sheepdog.
By Cape Rust
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Sixteen authors playing in the same sandbox, what could possibly go wrong? Actually very little, The Awakened is a collection of stories set in a world where some people gain amazing powers on their...
Review: Creepy Doll Studios – Dead Teenager RPG
Dead Teenager RPG
Dead Teenager RPG is a modern cinematic horror role-playing game, written by Robert Nolan and published by Creepy Doll Studios.
By Cape Rust
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Dead Teenager RPG is one of those beer and pretzels games that flirts with being something more. This game is based on the...
Novel Review: Sojurn, an Anthology of Speculative Fiction (Volume 1)
Sojurn, an Anthology of Speculative Fiction
By Cape Rust
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These reviews are normally called books for roleplayers and most of the time they are. In the case of Sojurn, an Anthology of Speculative Fiction (Volume 1), it is more of a case of a book written by roleplayers. There is some good gaming fodder here but Sojurn is a collection of stories compiled...
Novel Review: R.A. Salvatore – Night of the Hunter (Forgotten Realms)
Night of the Hunter
Night of the Hunter is the latest epic fantasy novel, placed in the Forgotten Realms, written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast.
By Cape Rust
Everyone’s favorite Dark Elf is back. Drizzt Do’Urden has reunited with his once dead, now living, but not undead friends to rescue Bruenor’s old friend Thibbledorf Pwent. Thibbledorf is located in the once glorious...
Review: Audio Samurai Games – Exile’s End (Hands of Fate)
Exile’s End
Exile’s End is a sci-fi setting for Hands of Fate, written by James C. Wilson and published by Audio Samurai Games.
By Cape Rust
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Exile’s End is a combination of space exploration and space opera (imagine if Traveller met Star Wars at a drunken barn dance and had an...
Review: Rite Publishing – Headless Horseman (Monster Templates)
Monster Templates: Headless Horseman
Headless Horseman is an epic fantasy supplement, from the Monster Templates series of supplements, for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by Steven D. Russell and published by Rite Publishing.
By Cape Rust
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This is a nine page supplement that...
Novel Review: Richard Lee Byers – The Reaver (The Sundering)
The Reaver
The Reaver is the next epic fantasy novel in The Sundering series, written by Richard Lee Byers and published by Wizards of the Coast.
By Cape Rust
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The fourth installment of The Sundering takes readers to the Sea of Fallen Stars in the Forgotten Realms. As you can imagine with a named sea, there will have to be pirates and if you are going...
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