So I picked the game Exodus this week because it holds a special place for me, but I realize many of you out there may not know the game I’ll give some background information.

Way back in 2006 unknown game publisher Glutton Creeper Games announced that they had acquired the rights to make an official Fallout Tabletop RPG from original developers Interplay. I don’t recall if they issued an official press release, I only know I first heard about it when a friend of mine linked me to a page where GCG was putting out an open call for graphic designers and Illustrators. Being a huge fan of Fallout I, of course, submitted my work for their consideration and was eventually chosen to help Illustrate the game. What happened after that saddened me and everyone involved in the project.

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I will be 100% honest right here up front with you; I have never cared for the Warhammer 40,000 setting. Nothing about it has ever appealed to me. I don’t like the angst of it, or should I say “Grim-Dark”-ness of it, nor do I like even just the basic premise of the setting. I understand that there are people out there who like it and will gladly give Games Workshop thousands of dollars for the privilege to play it. And I really do get the feeling that that’s how GW sees it, a privilege. So with all that being said it probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise when I tell you I was in no way excited about the Dark Heresy RPG.

And then I played it.

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So I decided to start this First Impressions feature as a way to take a look at sheets for new or unreleased games or games that I have yet to play.

I will not be giving grades, I will simply be giving my impressions on the sheet as a whole.

So here it is, the recently released sheet for the upcoming Lord of the Rings RPG; The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild by veteran game publisher Cubicle 7 and designers Sophisticated Games known for their numerous excellent Middle-Earth based Board Games.

So let’s just start writing and see what happens, eh?

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Sometime in late 2010, possibly September, I heard that the local game shop was hosting another D&D Game Day event. To be honest at first I didn’t care too much. I was already a regular Encounters player and had not only another 4e game I was playing in, but a regular Saturday game that has played everything BUT D&D. And seeing as how the only Game Day I had previously attended was enough years ago that it was a 3.5 game it was going to be no skin off my nose if I missed this one.

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Dear Tough Sheets readers,

So I didn’t realize this, but Tough Sheets doesn’t actually have a place to comment!!

Well shit!.

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