Review: Gamebook La Torre del Elefante

In today's post, the first of 2022, I will talk about the Spanish language gamebook La Torre del Elefante, based in the homonimous work by Robert E. Howard and published by the creative group Leyendas de Hiboria, which can be acquired at their store in printed and pdf formats.

Personas y dados: Software for role-playing designers

How have you spent this August? I hope it went well (despite the circumstances).

With this post I carry on with the non-official companion of Personas y dados and today I will talk about computer software which can be helpful for the role-playing designer to develop his task.

To read the review of Personas y dados follow this link, for literary and game design resources this one and for the study of licenses and a list of usable rulesets this other one.

Personas y dados: Dice, licenses and game systems

Following with the non-official companion of Personas y dados I'm writing with this series of posts today I will talk about the type of dice used in role-playing games, the most usual licenses and some of the rulesets which can be used to create your games without having to start from scratch.

To read the review of the book you can follow this link and this other one to read the post devoted to litery and game design resources.

Personas y dados: Literary and game design resources

In this second installment of this series about Personas y dados I begin a non-official companion of the book in which I will show you some lists of resources which can be helpful if you decide to create a role-playing game, focusing on literary and game creation.

To read the first part of the series with the review of the book you may follow this link.

Personas y dados: A guide to design role-playing games

In today's post I will talk about Personas y dados: Una guía para diseñar juegos de rol (Persons and dices: a guide to design role-playing games), a book written by Jorge Coto Bautista "Tiberio" (Twitter) which has been published recently in Spain by HT Games Publishers (Web | Twitter) and can be bought in printed as well as digital versions and which has encouraged me to prepare a series of posts where I will show you many resources that will be useful if you want to design your own game (you may consider this series as an unofficial digital companion of the book).

Satanic Mars - Other games

In this last post of the series about Satanic Mars I will talk about games that, either by their ruleset or by their spirit, can be compatible with the game and I also will make a bit of ludic archaeology (if you want to read previous posts you can follow these links: Review of Satanic Mars and Satanic Mars - Influences and inspiration).

Satanic Mars - Influences and inspiration

As I explained in the first post of this series, Satanic Mars is a game with all kind of influences, so it's possible to find references to classical comics, cinema and television series, all spiced up with chosen heavy metal and punk music (the author deciding that the game's background includes Lucifer really doesn't matter and it isn't the first time that something like this happens in all kind of works as you can read in this article of Wikipedia).

Below I will present you some examples that, if you have the chance, you may be interested in consult to take inspiration creating adventures for Satanic Mars, some of them appear referenced in a more or less veiled way in the game and others can perfectly fit with the spirit by which it was created.

Review of Satanic Mars

With today's post I start a small series in which I will talk about Satanic Mars, the trash metal role-playing game written and illustrated by Álvaro López (Instagram) and published by Sociedad del Dado Cornudo.

Review of Maegtal

 

In today's post I present you the review of the role-playing game Maegtal, written by Hector R. A. (Twitter | ArtStation) in Spanish and freely available through DriveThruRPG under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Review of Chasis

Hello again, in today's post I will talk about Chasis, written in Spanish and created by Omar Vigón Álvarez and offered under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Review of Sturm und Drang (Part 3)

I return to the series I'm devoting to Sturm und Drang, the supplement about Second World War of the Walküre line (you may read the previous posts following these links: post 1 and post 2), and in this ocasion I will explain ideas to use the information contained in the book with other role-playing games set in this conflict or nearby eras (as a campaign setting for example) thanks to its Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license and in some cases I will give you ideas about game mechanics to adapt part of the material offered by the book.

Review of Sturm und Drang (Part 2)

Keeping with the series devoted to the crowdfunding of Sturm und Drang which I began in this post today I will talk about the pocket book of Walküre and the adventures which got unlocked during the patronage.

Review of Sturm und Drang (Part 1)

In today's post I begin a small series in which I will review Sturm und Drang, the Second World War supplement of the Walküre game line, created by the Aventureros Errantes de la Marca del Este and Demonio Sonriente, as well as the adventures that could be obtained during the patronage, which ended successfully in November 2018, and some advide to use it with other role-playing games.

Review of fRáGiL (Part 7): cIuDaDpUeNtE

With this last installment of the series about the role-playing game fRáGiL, and taking advantage of today being the Free RPG Day, I will offer you a background sourcebook I've created with the help of the layout program Scribus and one of the maps which Eneko Menica has created as part of the creations of his Patreon.

To read the previous installments you may follow these links: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6.

Review of fRáGiL (Part 6)

In this sixth part of the series I'm dedicating to the post-apocalyptic game fRáGiL I will give you some guidelines for using it with the game Saints & Sinners, created by Gerardo Tasistro (Blog | DriveThruRPG).

To read the previous installments you may follow these links: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5.

Review of fRáGiL (Part 5)

In this fifth part of the series about the post-apocalyptic game fRáGiL I will give you some guidelines to use the CdB Engine ruleset, created by Pablo Jaime “Zonk-PJ” Conill Querol (Web | Patreon) | DriveThruRPG) which is used in the game Walküre and its supplemnt Sturm und Drang (the crowdfunding of which ended successfully last November), created by Grupo Creativo Aventureros Errantes de la Marca del Este.

To read the previous installments you may follow these links: #1 #2 #3 #4.

Review of fRáGiL (Part 3)

In this third part of the series about the post-apocalyptic role-playing game fRáGiL I will offer a list of comics, films and computer games I'm sure will inspire you to create your own adventures.

To read the previous installments you may follow these links: #1 #2.

Review of fRáGiL (Part 2)

In this second part of the series about the post-apocalyptic role-playing game fRáGiL and its crowdfunding I will review the supplements that go with the basic manual (to read the first installment you may follow this link: #1).

Review of fRáGiL (Part 1)

Today's post inaugurates a series introducing the review of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game fRàGiL (fRaGiLe), written by Célica Soldream and Verion Álendar of La Hermandad de la Espada Negra, with illustrations by Amelia Sales and published in Spain by YipiKaYei after January's successful crowdfunding.

Review of Recuerda el mañana

Today I offer you the review of Recuerda el mañana, the Spanish edition of the game Remember Tomorrow by Gregor Hutton (of whom I reviewed in 2014 3:16 Masacre en la Galaxia), published by conBarba as well as some utilities you may find interesting...