The Burnt Bugbear Blog

Note: The product reviewed here was acquired with my own hard-earned gold coins.      For me, there is something beautiful about the idea of Song of Blades and Heroes . Most of my. . .let’s call it “idealized fondness” for that quite venerable fantasy skirmish comes from the fact that it lets you build your warbands/retinues/parties as you see fit (mostly). For those who don’t know, SOBH basically says “hey, here’s a simple statblock: staple whatever traits you think help make your model come to life, and have fun.” Years before apps and doohickies made their way into RPGs and wargaming, SOBH was giving you an online statblock builder that let you, theoretically, make whatever fantasy character you wanted to.      Again, my fondness is idealized . In practice, I’m not a huge fan of SOBH. The rules are too simple for my tastes, the rolls too swingy, and the whole “look dad, there’s two stats on my character sheet: isn’t that awesome!?” approa...