Sorry for the abbreviated scan reports, 'Bladers. Summer is fading away, which means a more consistent blogging schedule going into fall. Stay tuned! -Winston Evil Beagle Games Shaintar - Legends Arise ($39.95) Sean Patrick Fannon’s vision of Epic High Fantasy comes to life for Savage Worlds in this all new iteration brought to you by Evil Beagle Games. "The heart of any lasting and memorable roleplaying campaign is the setting. Is it vivid? Alluring? Full of mysteries, as well as straight-ahead challenges? If the answer is “Yes” to all of these, you are in good hands. SHAINTAR is deep in “good hands” territory. Just paging through the Players Guide makes you want to play, and it’s genuinely hard to create a boring character using this book; everything works together to make your Hero interesting. And that’s even before you get to the four detailed Major Enemies lurking in Shaintar. Or the rules for alchemy, or the tantalizing glimpses we get of the Black Lantern an...

Freeport: City of Adventure Freeport has been Green Ronin's signature setting of pirate adventure and Cthulhoid madness since the early days of the d20 System boom. The setting launched with the ENnie award-winning adventure “Death in Freeport”, and has seen several other adventure modules as well as multiple setting expansions centered around the flagship title “Freeport: City of Adventure”. In 2006 the setting went “system agnostic” with the publication of the “Pirate's Guide to Freeport” which contained no system stat blocks at all. This book was followed (slowly) by a series of “Freeport Companions” for different systems, all containing similar information tailored to different game systems. At this point, the line includes companion books for True 20, 3 rd Era (d20 System), Savage Worlds, Pathfinder, and Fate. In 2013, Green Ronin funded the production through Kickstarter of a single massive tome combining the Pirate's Guide and the Companion material as...