We’re finally nearing the end of the Black Gate 14 online tour, just as issue 15 nears completion. Whew! Timing is everything.

Today we’re looking at the Gaming column, edited by Howard Andrew Jones. Like Reviews Editor Bill Ward, Howard pulled out all the stops to make sure it was the best we’d ever had for our blockbuster 14th issue.  The result was 20 pages of in-depth reviews of the most exciting gaming products of the year, including:

Alien Module 1: Aslan, Gareth Hanrahan (Mongoose Publishing)
Traveller: Tripwire, Simon Beal (Mongoose Publishing)
Traveller: FASA and Gamelords, CD ROM (Far Future Enterprises)
HeroScape Expansion Pack 1-4: Blackmoon’s Siege (Wizards of the Coast)
Legends of Steel: Savage Worlds, Jeff Mejia (Evil DM Games)
Level UP Issue 1, Magazine (Goodman Games)
Far Avalon, Martin Dougherty (Avenger/Comstar Games)
Shard RPG Basic Compendium, Aaron de Orive and Scott Jones (Shard Studios)
Hero’s Handbook: Tieflings, Edited by Ken Hart (Goodman Games)
Hero’s Handbook: Dragonborn, Edited by Aijalyn Kohler (Goodman Games)
Forgotten Heroes: Fang, Fist, and Song, Edited by Aeryn Blackdirge Rudel (Goodman Games)
Forgotten Heroes: Scythe and Shroud, Edited by Aeryn Blackdirge Rudel (Goodman Games)
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Core Rulebook, Jason Bulmahn (Paizo Publishing)
Pathfinder Module: Crypt of the Everflame, Jason Bulmahn (Paizo Publishing)

Pathfinder Adventure Path #25: Council of Thieves (1 of 6): The Bastards of Erebus, Edited by Sean K. Reynolds (Paizo Publishing)
Ruins of Hyboria, Vincent N. Darlage (Mongoose Publishing)
Judge Dredd, Lawrence Whitaker (Mongoose Publishing)
Age of Cthulhu: Death in Luxor, Harley Stroh (Goodman Games)
Maelstrom Storytelling, Christian Aldridge (Hubris Games/Precis Intermedia)
Tales from the Empire, Christian Aldridge (Hubris Games/Precis Intermedia)
Dacartha Prime, Christian Aldridge (Hubris Games/Precis Intermedia)
Spirit of the Century, Robert Donoghue, Fred Hicks, and Leonard Balsera (Evil Hat Games)
Dungeon Crawl Classic 57: Wyvern Mountain, Mike Ferguson (Goodman Games)
Dungeon Crawl Classic 58: The Forgotten Portal, Chris Doyle (Goodman Games)
Dungeon Crawl Classic 61: Citadel of the Corruptor, Adrian Pommier (Goodman Games)
Dungeon Crawl Classic 53: Sellswords of Punjar, Harley Stroh (Goodman Games)
Dungeon Crawl Classic 56: Scions of Punjar, Chris Doyle (Goodman Games)
Blackdirge’s Dungeon Denizens, Aeryn Rudel (Goodman Games)

Tha Game Reviews in Black Gate 14 were written by Howard Andrew Jones, Andrew Zimmerman Jones, Jeff Mejia, Robert Rowe, and Vincent N. Darlage.

Black Gate 14 is still in stock and available for $15.95, or just $21.95 as part of a two issue subscription on our Subscription Page.

The complete Black Gate 14 overview is available here.