It’s no secret that I have conflicting views on D&D 5.5. A really big part of me is ready to cut ties with the Dungeons & Dragons name and embrace a third-party OSR alternative. But, with all of the shake-ups at Hasbro recently (WotC’s CEO stepping down, and Dan Ayoub taking over the direction of…
It’s been a slow couple months on oldgamehermit.com. Between the site redesign and a bunch of personal projects, I’ve really lagged behind when it comes to making posts. I hope to reverse that trend today with a new TTRPG review. A while back I funded an interesting Kickstarter from Kobold Press. The project was called…
Being a fan of Dungeons & Dragons in 2026 is complicated. These days, the fanbase is split largely into two camps. The first, are the old school players who enjoyed the game in its earliest days. These players tend to like the crunchy math of the rules, they enjoy things like hex crawls, random loot…
Those of you who follow my D&D reviews know that I’m a sucker for 5E Kickstarters. Obviously, I don’t jump at every single Kickstarter or Backerkit project that hits the scene. But there’s a few publishing houses that I follow pretty religiously and Goodman Games is one of them. That’s why when Joseph Goodman announced…
It’s a weird time to be a D&D fan. On one hand, you have an edition of the game (which now, by the way is OFFICIALLY called 5.5E) that is less than a year old. And there’s already rumors of a sixth edition on the horizon. Not to mention that this latest edition has been…
This is a review that I should have gotten out sooner. But, I was waiting for my physical copy to arrive in the mail and unfortunately, weather delays caused it to arrive a bit late. Regardless, I’ve spent the last week pouring over my new copy of the Player’s Guide 2 for Tales of the…
As has been the case with all of the 2024 D&D rules releases, I’ve gone back and forth on if I should review them or not. It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the 2024 ruleset. I’m not playing this version of D&D, and I don’t plan to. However, this is the…
The second Monster Vault release for Tales of the Valiant (and D&D 5E) is finally here. Those of you that are clinging to the 2014 D&D rules, or those of you who are actually playing Tales of the Valiant proper are probably asking, is there really anything of value in this book? It’s a fair…
This is a review that I’ve been sitting on for a little while now. Some time ago, I backed a Kickstarter from Kobold Press for an expansion to their Tales of the Valiant ruleset. The Kickstarter campaign was for “Labyrinth” – a set of books that would provide detail on the ToV multiverse model. You…
If you’re a fan of Goodman Games’ Original Adventures Reincarnated line, here’s one you might have missed, Hellpits of Nightfang. Recently, I talked about OAR #9, Caverns of Thracia. I was one of the Kickstarter backers for that project, and as a part of my pledge, I also received an item labeled as OAR #9.5…