tabletop RPGs

Star Trek Adventures Second Edition – The Turn Order Review

Star Trek Adventures (STA) is turning seven years old in August, and Modiphius is celebrating with a brand new Second Edition of the game. There aren’t a lot of major changes, but the systems have been honed and revised...

Turn Order’s Introduction to Tabletop Role-Playing Games

We talk a lot about wargames here on Goonhammer dot com, but did you know that there's a whole other hobby that originated from wargames back in the 1960's? Emerging from the military simulation community, the first ever roleplaying...

Turn Order’s Guide to Making a TTRPG Character as Cool as the Baldur’s Gate 3 Party

One of the many striking aspects of Baldur’s Gate 3 is the complexity and depth of each party member’s backstory. On a first playthrough, I thought these backstories seemed like a bit much compared to an average tabletop campaign. It...

Turn Order Plays Vampire: The Requiem

Are you a fan of vampires, political intrigue or the kind of stories only roleplay games can create? We’re excited to tell you all about something we’ve been working on for a bit: Turn Order Plays Vampire: The Requiem, our...

A Galaxy of Adventure: Wrath & Glory Review – Turn Order

Grim darkness. Far future. Only war. No peace. Warhammer! Chances are pretty good that if you’re on this particular site reading this particular article you probably don’t need an introduction to Warhammer 40k, but you might not be familiar with...

RPGs for Young Kids: Amazing Tales & Amazing Heroes

We've been on a bit of an RPG kick here at Turn Order. We've talked about narrative RPGs with Ilor's introduction to Apocalypse World and Tiffany's review of the Apocalypse Powered Brindlewood Bay. I reviewed the Alien Starter system...

Turn Order: Ironsworn and the Concept of Solo RPGs

A few weeks ago, I talked about Apocalypse World and its impact on RPGs, particularly about the way AW is paradigmatically different from more "traditional" RPGs and how many of its "Powered by the Apocalypse" successors unfortunately missed the...