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Where Evil Lives – MCDM Lairs Book Review

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:00:18 +0000

Arcadia was incredible, Flee, Mortals! a masterpiece… so where does Where Evil Lives, the companion product to the monster book stand? I’ve been checking out most of it, examining the design behind the lairs and just checking out what’s cool about it in my latest streams on Twitch. If you want to check out my thoughts before anyone else, that’s the best place to do so. Now, if it is my thoughts on Flee, Mortals! that you want to know […]

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Flee, Mortals! Review

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:00:25 +0000

Having reviewed most of MCDM products, I wanted to go all in and review the Flee, Mortals! book as well. I backed the product, and received both the physical book and PDF. James Introcaso offered to give me a copy of the PDF as well, but it was not necessary. I wanted to have the physical book at hand before I did the review. This, I have been reviewing live over on Twitch, fully analyzing the design behind the monsters, […]

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Arcadia Issue 21 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:00:26 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Wow! That’s a gorgeous, spooky-looking cover! Did that distract you from the fact that I took almost a month to write this article? Sorry, I’ve been invited to my first con in the US and met a whole bunch of amazing people there (Including Hannah Rose, the editor from Arcadia. Hey Hannah! It was so great to meet, chat, and play games with you in person!). I’m intending to write an article about that for […]

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Arcadia Issue 16 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:33:38 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM With a Neverlandesque map of a beautiful floating island comes the new issue of Arcadia. While this kind of art looks weird next to the others, its uniqueness, as well as how great it looks is welcome in my collection. This issue includes three different things that you can easily plug into your game to create great tales for your players, one in the form of a ruleset, another with two NPCs with their own […]

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Arcadia Issue 12 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:00:05 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM This month’s Arcadia is presented to us with a feline featured elven woman archer protecting herself from two attacking wolves in the tundra. While not as epic as other issues, it gives a bit of an old school style with the art design. It was made by the same artist who made the one from the Beastheart, and it is beautiful to look at. Just like its art design, this issue’s theme seems to focus […]

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The Beastheart – An MCDM Class for D&D5e – Breakdown Part 2

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

This month, MCDM presented a new product: The Beastheart. It’s a huge PDF with nearly 50 pages worth of amazing curated content. If you like the idea of playing a character that has a monster companion such as an owlbear or a hell hound, then this is definitely your jam. A few days ago I focused the breakdown on the companion rules. Today, we’ll continue by talking a bit about the class and some of its subclasses. I’m doing this […]

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Arcadia Issue 2 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:00:52 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Another issue of Arcadia has arrived! This time with 3 interesting new things. As far as the people at MCDM said, from now on we are only receiving three new contents per issue. I’m fine with that. With this level of quality that is more than enough! This issue started with a “Letter from the Editor” again (this being James Introcaso), in which, as he promised, talked mostly about the art from this and the […]

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Tome of Beasts 2 Review

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:00:02 +0000

We all know Kobold Press, creators of many wonderful supplements for the world’s greatest roleplaying game and many other systems such as Pathfinder. Three years ago, I managed to get hold of the great Creature Codex. I even made a review for it, considering it one of the best 3rd party supplements for the system. Of course, I ended up getting the original Tome of Beasts after that, which I’ve put to good use during the Feywild arc in my […]

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How to create a story through your dungeon, Part 1

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:00:54 +0000

Thumbnail art by Brandon Rush Fighter: Why does this dungeon have a window that shows a bunch of rocks when it is clearly down in the middle of a mountain? Artificer: There surely is a story to be told about this place. Didn’t you see the murals? Bard: You mean those terrible paint marks on the wall? That’s not art! A skilled hand would never paint something so ugly. Barbarian: You think you are so clever? Then who is it […]

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4 Great Ideas for One on One Games, Part 2

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:00:33 +0000

Thumbnail image by David Edwards In the past weeks my article on why you should try One on One D&D and How to do it received quite a lot of attention. What does this mean? It clearly indicates that people are going out of their way and looking for ways to still play D&D while doing social distancing. Playing One on One (or duet as it is also called) greatly simplifies the whole process. Now, what happens when you are […]

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