Scott at the Tabletop #3 (May/June 2025) Welcome to the third edition of Scott at the Tabletop. This month will focus on recent releases by Chaosium Inc. including some recent Call of Cthulhu content and the Pendragon Gamemaster’s Handbook. Alongside, this we are going to take a long overdue dive into Free League’s The One…
Scott at the Tabletop Vol. 2 (April 2025)
Scott at the Tabletop #2 (April 2025) It has been a HUGE month for RPG books at ECAV – Tabletop HQ! We have some amazing stuff to review from both Free League and Exalted Funeral, which includes one of the biggest box sets I’ve seen for a new RPG in years. Land of Eem (Deluxe…
Scott at the Tabletop Vol. 1 (March 2025)
Scott at the Tabletop #1 (March 2025) I have been hooked on tabletop gaming since I got the red box Classic Dungeons and Dragons game around age 12. I cut my teeth on RPG’s ranging from the aforementioned D&D to Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu and Vampire – the Masquerade as well as playing various TCG’s…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024 Part 2 – Books, Music and Tabletop Gaming
While ECAV’s bread ‘n’ butter is all about soaking in the effervescent glow of the television screen, basking in the splendor of the goopfests of Joe D’Amato, the eroto-vampire flicks of Jean Rollin and the twisty and beautiful films of Dario Argento, we also have other interests here. We read, folks! We like to chill…
Tabletop RPG Roundup – March 2024 (Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Traveller, Alien, MORE)
RPG Review Roundup – March 2024 The past few months a good amount of RPG supplements have made it into my mailbox, and passed before my retinas. There are so many great systems, and books out there and deciding which to pick up and use is getting increasingly difficult with the massive amounts of content….
Tabletop Review – Traveller – Marches Adventures 1-5, Secrets of the Ancients, Central Supply Catalogue 2023
The thing about starting a new game-system is knowing how to flesh it out. There is usually 1-2 established pathways, that longterm players will suggest to familiarize newcomers, but what then? If you’re playing D&D 5E, you’re told to get the starter set and Lost Mines of Phandelver, Call of Cthulhu has a starter set,…
Tabletop Review – Planescape – Adventures in the Multiverse – Wizards of the Coast
Planescape was an important milestone in my progression as a player and DM when I got a copy of the boxed set as a teenager in the 1990’s. When I got into Advanced D&D I was immediately excited for the “Forgotten Realms” which seemed so FANTASTIC and so MASSIVE, and then the Ravenloft – Realms…
Tabletop Review – Pirate Borg (Free League)
Mork Borg is interesting. I found the game through a recommendation from a friend, and being that it’s described as a doom metal (it’s more black in my eyes) fantasy RPG I knew it had to be part of my collection. Early on I played a few games, and found it a pretty awesome way…
Tabletop Review – Cults of Runequest – Prosopaedia/Mythology (Chaosium)
I am not actively running a RuneQuest campaign right now, and yet I’ve probably gotten more out of the Cults of Runequest series than any other RPG book I’ve read this year. The reason being is I’ve ended up treating them, like I treated my well-worn childhood copy of D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths and…
Tabletop Review – Dungeons and Dragons – Phandelver and Below – The Shattered Obelisk
I’ve written about this elsewhere, but I started my RPG-adventures with the final D&D Basic box sometime around 1993 (yes Basic apparently still was getting reissued in 1993). In the late 90’s early 2000’s I stopped playing and got back in around 2015, just in time for D&D 5E to hit, I got the 3…