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…
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…
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…
At last, after months of waiting, I have received my Kickstarter copy of the Tales of the Valiant: Gamemaster’s Guide. This book is the final piece of Kobold Press‘ Tales of the Valiant core rulebook collection. If you’re comparing TotV to D&D, this book is the equivalent to the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The contents of…
Since I wrote my article on the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide, I have now received the physical copies of these books from the Kickstarter campaign. I was waiting to receive the actual books before I sat down to review the Monster Vault. The reason I was waiting is because I wanted to be…
Ever since Kobold Press announced that they were launching Tales of the Valiant, I have been both cautiously optimistic and extremely curious as to what the final result was going to look like. When Tales of the Valiant started crowd funding, it should be no surprise to my readers to learn that I was one of…