The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II, fresh starts, and goodbye
From 2008 to 2014 (and beyond), King’s Bounty was one of my favorite, most-played series. These are strategy-RPGs in which you build your armies...
The D20 Beat: Biomutant exemplifies grade-A Eurojank
One of my favorite styles of RPG is “Eurojank.” As the name implies, these are games from European studios that, well, aren’t as well-polished...
The D20 Beat: Lost Eidolons is a rarity — a single-player RPG from South Korea
The South Korean game industry is known for games like Dungeon and Fighter, Lineage, and Maple Story. What do all of these games have...
The D20 Beat — Magic: Legends and Black Legend are making me cranky
I must have been wearing my cranky pants this week. I can’t remember playing a selection of role-playing games that left me feeling so...
The D20 Beat: Smashing Dark Alliance’s Verbeeg Jamboree
One of the first things I saw during my late February demo for Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance was a verbeeg. These are a...
The D20 Beat: Loop Hero has cast a calm, strategic spell over me
Some games are hard to describe in an email. When Devolver Digital‘s reps pitched Loop Hero to me, I didn’t get it. I read...
The D20 Beat: Bringing the cool combat wheelchair to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
Representation matters. And for Codename Entertainment, this is more than just a pithy statement. Last month, it introduced Talin Uran to Idle Champions of...
The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II heralds what should be a fantastic year for RPGs
I find it amusing that a the resurrection of a beloved retro game is itself retro now. I’m talking about King’s Bounty: The Legend,...
The D20 Beat: My critical hits of 2020
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite role-playing games of the past decade. The Witcher 2 is also a fantastic RPG. So far,...
The D20 Beat — My fall RPG download
This fall feels different for role-playing games. Sure, we’ve seen a lot of new titles hit, but between the paucity of RPGs on the...