This is a great family game to play with younger and older children. My kids played it all the time when they were in elementary school and now as teens still like to get it out. I recently loaned my copy to a friend to play with her daughters. They loved it but my teenage daughter begged me to get it back.

As far as the game goes, it’s a very simple set of rules, turn over cards to collect items from the forest, but don’t push your luck too much or you might face a monster. Will you be ready?

Wonderful game from a wonderful game company.

This is a fun expansion to the base game. I’ve played this game with my kids for years and now as teens they still love it. The base game is great and these expansions just add more fun. I highly recommend picking them up.

There are plenty of titles out there that do 'Big Horror'. You know what I mean, the massive monsters/Gods or huge, sinister secret societies. What FiveEvil promises, based on Splinters, is to get you really feeling horror. That feeling you got when you watched 'Scream' and 'Hush' (or for those of you with a more vintage palate, Nigel Kneales "Beasts" series) and the unsettling awareness that this could happen to you on any normal day.

By using the 5e rules as a base and then taking them to places you never thought to look, the system should work for anyone who likes 5e but also for those of you that might have a few issues with it. It's clever and unexpected, much like the horror it's being implemented for.

Splinters is worth your time to read and I expect it will pique your interest enough to take a look at FiveEvil too.

Jon has hit gold dust again. A great resource for 5e fans to Spice Up Their....Gaming with making horror work better within it's rules set. Do check out the KS of the Hardback rules. Highly recommended

Really well-conceived mechanic for using 5e to do genuinely scary horror adventures. Even if you don't like 5e—I sure don't—or horror, some great ideas and design choices to grab.

A novel way to approach horror gaming, theme and feel first, with a system that is at the same time familiar to many. Outstanding!

A truly clever approach to horror in 5E D&D. Impressive stuff

Great innovation from an amazing designer. Worth a shoofty.

What a fantastically, beautiful book Maskwitches is. This book expands The Silver Road RPG with stunning art, a whole slew of story and character ideas, and a mercifully simple system. Maskwitches sits somewhere between storytelling and roleplaying game, hitting a spot I really enjoy that's reminiscent of the creative freedom of Baron Munchausen and Dog Eat Dog with some of the meatier material from historic/folk horror and fantasy games like Solemn Vale and Age of Arthur. This book is a healthy 172 pages, which is remarkable given its low cost. I strongly encourage people to check it out.

Beautiful artwork, and great quality writing. The adventure is easliy adaptable, I am using it for a completly different game system and the story and GM instructions work as intended, so well that I am now considering buying the Beowulf base book.

A couple of recommended titles for Cold War knowledge (with mini reviews) and a short essay addressing the question "Why make changes?"

Hodgson's maps are beautiful. If you like his art from The One Ring RPG, this is definitely worth picking up.

This is another example of excellent work by the Beowulf Age of Heroes team.

There are 2 cool maps and write-up on the Temples for the "Old Ways", alongside a bit more on mead-halls. Three sample "Old Ways" NPCs are varied and ready to slot into your adventures. Finally 6 solid pages on old-ways, including bibliography for further optional reading, significantly expands the information in the CRB. Of course VTT support is included. All in all a great pack!

This is a real neat start to a series of reports on new editions of Cold City and Hot War.

The layout is spectacular as we've come to expect from Handiwork. The first page is a brief essay covering what the RPGs were and what to expect in this series of reports. A full page of art follows, well-executed and horrifying. The remainder is an essay on the economic destruction of Europe following WW2 and the Marshall Plan in the following years, bringing the timeline to 1948. A short bibliography for further reading is included.

I have no knowledge of the original releases of Cold City and Hot War, but the approach here looks very original and promising. Hot War is far from my interest but Cold City might be the ticket for me. I'll be getting these reports as they are published.

Beowulf: Age of Heroes gets my highest recommendation. This take on duet play combined with the subject matter is what brought me to 5E finally. The art and atmosphere is very evocative: almost every page-spread has an icon, landscape, or illustration, and bits of Anglo-Saxon style alliterative verse are sprinkled throughout. The take on the period is a truly historically-informed one: no horned helms or maids wearing the merest scraps of mail and nothing else here. The authors are fans of the period and 5E and boy does it show. The undefeated condition is really thematic and innovative. Reducing character options to a single bespoke class, the hero (obviously) seems restrictive but is again very thematic and includes many different "flavors" of hero to try. Followers help to create more interesting situations for your party of one and can do a lot to shore up some of your PC's weaknesses. The sections on equipment, war gear, treasures, and ships all help to flesh out your world for the setting. The rule about always having access to a spear in combat is a stroke of genius. The Bestiary has 13 different appropriate kinds of enemies for the world. There's an adventure included too featuring ogres. Now that the line has matured with many additional adventures, digital packs, and other content what you have here is the core of an entire system of RPG that has much to offer players wanting to explore Northern Europe an England either in a historic setting or especially the heroic age that perhaps never was. Handiwork Games is just an impressive outfit: a small, dedicated, and passionate team with customer service second to none. RECOMMEND