Review of Penelope Half-Pint Makes a Friend

Review of Penelope Half-Pint Makes a Friend

Penelope Half-Pint Makes a Friend is a children’s picture and storybook about Penelope Half-Pint, a character who you may recognize from the Heroes of the Vale D&D show and from the Idle Champions game! It’s written by Penelope’s creator and actor, Hope LeVelle, and it comes with a great message about meeting others with an open heart.

Review of Venture Society by 9th Level Games

Venture Society is a TTRPG designed for young players that teaches about empathy and social skills while on a fun non-violent adventure! I had the opportunity to GM the pre-release demo at Origins Game Fair with an awesome little adventurer and his family, and I got to speak with the game’s creators about their goals with the game. Here’s my take, and I hope you enjoy this preview!

Review of The Bodhana Group’s Branch Riders!

Branch Riders is a TTRPG designed by a therapeutic gaming non-profit, The Bodhana Group, that aims to facilitate teamwork, creative problem solving, and development of other core player skills while providing a fun and easy to interact with adventure spanning any genre so everyone can play the character they want! See what’s up with their latest project, Branch Riders, here!

Review: Coinsides spinner, dice alternative!

Last year, I entered a Coinsides Adventure Sparks game jam and won a very cool dice spinner! We’ve found it to be a really cool option that kiddo has had a lot of fun messing with during our games – check out here for some of the awesome stuff it can do and how it can offer an easier to keep track of, non-choking hazard dice alternative for games with or around young players!

Review of Hairy Shanks, a rune-based TTRPG about wonderfully wild characters

Hairy Shanks is a tabletop RPG about playing as a chaotic little hairy creature who draws power from the runes within them. Using only spatial randomization mechanics it’s super accessible for new and young TTRPG players, and it was a great game to check out!