Martin H does amazing work. When I was witing for Chaosium we were told to be careful to avoid fan produced work (just for canon purposes not implying its low quality) EXCEPT this book and other workers by Martin. In fact they gave me a copy to reference. And then I went out and bought it here as it's SO good. And then I went out and bought a hard copy.

Buy anything Martin writes. Just do it. You will not regret.

Plus AMAZING Award winning art.

Folks just go buy this book already. And the others.

Plus the author is a cat lover and all around lovely chap. Just BUY THE BOOK.

DomT Beer with Teeth.

Love the cover art.

An interesting scenario with a great otherworldly vibe. I used it for my Rivers of London adjacent BRP game as a 'jaunt' into fairy lands ....where it worked well. My players enjoyed it.

If you want a big old list of bad ass Broo who will ruin your characters day but not your players. Loads of great hooks and some really, really stand out bad guys the players will love to hate. Well done!

This book is an excellent list of bad ass broo. Plot hooks and motivations are included along with new diseases and magical items.

What is NOT in this book is any of the past iterations of broo reproduction, which frankly is an excellent thing as I for one would have been unable to use it. The Content warning is accurate and refers to disease and general violence.

This book made me as a RQ GM cackle with evil mirth and want to use some of these bad evil monsters on my players.

Well this is the GM's Screen Pack.

I own both the pdf version and the physical screen.

I have rated this product at 2 but I would give the physical version another for 3. The screen it's self is well made physcially, heavy duty and good quality and would rate the extra.

Frankly the pdf version is something of a disapointment.

The art on the outside of the GM's screen is cool and all but not much use in a pdf. The Gm's side ... has some of the tables you'll need to run the game but by no means all of them and a bunch more useless art. Oh it's pretty but I want functionalty. I've used this both printed out and the actual physical screen. In both cases I still had to be paging through the rule book to find extra tables. The trickest tables (crit results) are missing whereas how to heal them is. We do get costs for beer and lodging though? Combat in the Witcher is crunchy. I'm happy looking up the price of beer or a room or a hooker for the night but I really could have used the various crit tables right there guys! Frankly if you own the pdf of the main rules it would be better to print out the right tables and use them.

The rules expansion book gives us halflings (booooooo to generic fantasy races) a bunch of npc types (okay I guess) and the new Noble profession (which is pretty good) and some very back of a envelope rules on having a holding of land. The player and gm info is all sort of mashed together and frankly is not all that well edited together.

If I compare this to the only other new GM's screen I've bought lately :- Chaosium's GM's screen pack for Runequest Glorantha. Well it's night and day even at twice the price (for pdf version) it's just so much better. The screen itself has just as much great art but the Gm's side is loaded with really useful information and tables and I didnt have to go looking for extra's more than once in a while. The booklet that comes with it is much larger and has a ton of really well written scenario's and a sandbox setting. Frankly you could get years worth of play out of that thing. And the physical version comparison is even worse as then the price is much closer for two very well made screens. The RQG one is has better info and by being flipped to landscape panels covers a greater estate and just works better, both are of great build quality though, neither is flimsy and feel they's last getting hauled around.

I love dark gritty (but not grimdark) RPG's. I've played a couple of the Witcher Computer Games. I've read some of the books. I've watched and loved the TV series. So the Witcher TTRPG seemed like an obvious choice and a while ago a friend of mine offered to run a game. We've had great fun. I've just recently started running my own game for a different set of players and session 1 was last night and included chunks from "Easy Mode" so this seemed like a good time to review it.

So what is Witcher :- Easy Mode and how good is it?

It's the quick start pack.

First off three pages of Lore. Not really needed if you have soaked up a chunk of the setting but as 2/5 my players had somehow avoided it this was useful. Then there are a bunch of pregen characters and a primer on how to read the character sheet. Very handy. We all rolled up characters but still good to have.

Then there are a cut down version of the various rules to allow a gm to run a simple adventure. These are well presented and fairly easy to use. Be aware that even the cut down rules are quite crunchy.

Then there's a very short adventure. Which gives 3 encounters. Enough for taster at least.

It's a good product. I'd say the weakness is the brevity of the intro scenario. Compared to the Cyberpunk Project Red kit which gives a lot more plot hooks and room for Gm's to play. If you're a real fan of the Witcher I'd say go for the main rules to start with, if you're on the edge then pick this up as pdf and have a go, its free after all.

If, like me, you're a busy GM then having a selection of one-shot adventures or plugins to just pick and use can be a game-saver.

This fits the bill really well.

Missing a few key players? Lacking inspiration? Players dived off-plot and your carefully selected scenario has been bypassed?

Rocks Fall is what you need. It's a really well put together pack of Bad Trolls who can be placed about anywhere and used to great effect. The suggestions on scaling the foe to suit your party are well done.

The artwork is really key and adds a great deal to the adventure. I'm not one for using mini's personally but the print out and use cut outs look great.