Tabletop Traveler Posts
Traveler Review – Alien Archive 2
Starfinder has been a pleasant surprise to me as a tabletop gamer ever since its launch at Gen Con 2017. While there were other sci-fi and space-themed roleplaying games out there, none of them were as readily available or easy to transition to (in my...
Getting in Character
Roleplaying one's character is generally one of the key parts of any tabletop RPG. Most long term games have some sort of story of which you are one of the main characters. Sometimes it can be difficult to fill the shoes of these larger than life character...
Screen to System: Stranger Things
Hello and welcome to the first installment of Screen to System. In this recurring series of articles I'm going to take my love of TV, movies and the screen and translate it to my love of table top gaming. In each installment we'll take a look at a...
One Shot Wonders
Obviously the dream of most tabletop games is to run a sprawling campaign from start to finish with characters that become as much a part of you as the friends you're playing with. However sometimes, it can be fun and even beneficial to stray from this...
Tabletop Traveler – Review: Waterdeep- Dragon Heist from Wizards of the Coast
Flipping through the pages of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist I found a few interesting things. First of all, this adventure is nothing like the previous adventures that Wizards of the Coast has published. Instead of incredibly sweeping set piece dungeons, you'll...
Pathfinder Playtest – First Mock Combats
Our final playtest session before we got into an actual campaign consisted heavily of some mock combats. We did two encounters in total. The first one was a battle with some goblins. The second was a harder encounter with some hobgoblins....
What You Want, What You Really Really Want
There are a near endless number of things one can hope to gain from sitting down and playing a tabletop roleplaying game. That's one of the reasons it's such a wonderful hobby. People are always going to want different things when sitting down...
Pathfinder Playtest – Rules Deep Dive and First Errata
Early Fixes Before I get into today's topics I want to talk about the first errata that was released for the playtest a week or so after Gen Con. By the time the majority of these articles are going to be published, the playtest will have gone...
Tabletop Traveler- Review: Creature Codex by Kobold Press
Having picked up the original Tome of Beasts, Creature Codex (or Tome of Beasts 2, Electric Beastaloo) was nothing alien to me. This seemingly endless book of monsters and baddies for fifth edition was Kickstarted in January of 2018 successfully...
