A welcoming guide to making your hero, one feat at a time So you’ve heard the whispers—about crunchy mechanics, tactical brilliance, endless build options—and you’ve decided to take the plunge into Pathfinder Second Edition. But before you slay your first goblin, defy your first curse, or trigger your first lovingly […]
Category: Deep Dives
Why Pathfinder 2e Might Be the Best System for Tactical Combat Enthusiasts
Precision, positioning, and more crunchy satisfaction than a bag of enchanted walnuts. If you’re the kind of TTRPG player who loves a good battlefield map, keeps initiative order color-coded, and dreams of clever combos that flip the tide of combat in a single round—Pathfinder Second Edition may just be your […]
Black Powder & Brimstone: Demons, Gunfights, and Doom in the Wilds of the Weird
Inside the gritty, gunsmoke-drenched TTRPG from Free League Publishing If you like your roleplaying games with a little sulfur, a little lead, and a whole lot of trouble—let us introduce you to Black Powder and Brimstone, the infernal-fueled, bullet-bitten frontier of Free League Publishing’s grimdark fantasy offerings. This is a […]
Pirate Borg: Doom, Treasure, and the End of the World at Sea
The only RPG where your scurvy crew may die horribly—and you’ll love every second of it You don’t play Pirate Borg to be a hero. You play Pirate Borg to chase cursed treasure through a haunted archipelago, scream “Betrayal!” as your first mate steals the ship, and go down in […]
MÖRK BORG: The Doom Metal TTRPG You Were Warned About
Apocalypse, rot, and rule-breaking brilliance—all bound in a glowing yellow grimoire. There are TTRPGs you play for character growth.There are TTRPGs you play for tactical strategy.And then there’s MÖRK BORG—the game you play to see how gloriously, how spectacularly, how thunderously it all ends. Published by Free League Publishing and […]
Blades in the Dark: The Ultimate TTRPG for Heists, Haunts, and Hard Choices
A full deep dive into the world of scoundrels, ghosts, and neon-noir criminal empires Some roleplaying games ask you to save the world.Blades in the Dark asks you to rob it. This isn’t your average fantasy game. There are no heroes here. No dungeons to clear or dragons to slay. […]
Mastery Reforged: Breaking Down the Artificer Class in D&D 2024
In the heart of magical industry, where invention meets incantation and wrenches clatter beside spell scrolls, stands the Artificer—a class forged not in fire, but in focus.
Introduced officially in Eberron: Rising from the Last War, the Artificer brought a new archetype to 5e: the arcane engineer. Yet, despite a devoted following, the 2014–2020 Artificer often felt like a fringe class—neither as flexible as Wizards, nor as durable as Fighters, and bound by clunky infusion and subclass mechanics that made onboarding a chore.
Mastery Reforged: Breaking Down the Druid Class in D&D 2024
Among the ancient stones, beneath wild canopies, and deep within the shifting tide of the natural world, the Druid listens. Speaks. Commands.
In past editions of Dungeons & Dragons, the Druid was a paradox: wildly versatile but mechanically tangled. Shapeshifting potential often clashed with spellcasting identity. Subclasses ranged from the brilliant to the bewildering. And for all their connection to nature, Druids sometimes lacked presence at the table—overshadowed by flashier casters or simpler tanks.
Mastery Reforged: Breaking Down the Ranger Class in D&D 2024
In the realm of Dungeons & Dragons, the Ranger has long stood as a sentinel of the wilds—a tracker, a hunter, a guardian of the untamed. Yet, in previous editions, the class often grappled with an identity crisis, straddling the line between martial prowess and spellcasting utility without fully excelling in either.
Mastery Reforged: Breaking Down the Bard Class in D&D 2024
In the grand theater of Dungeons & Dragons, no class carries quite the same duality as the Bard—both performer and powerhouse, jester and genius, trickster and tactician.
Yet despite their thematic richness, 2014’s Bard sometimes felt caught between roles. Jack-of-all-trades, but master of none. Full caster, but with limited impact. Inspiring, but mechanically murky.
Enter the 2024 Player’s Handbook.