I've just finished running a 7-part stream of BEOWULF Age of Heroes, and the excitement I felt when first hearing about it, and first reading it absolutely transfers to the table. This feels like the way we always imagined RPG stories to be, when we first crossed into this wonderful world of storytelling. (What, you mean there is a way to be the hero in the fantasy stories I love? Sign me up!)

The duet play mechanic is inspired, at once catering to our modern life where it is feasible to arrange one player at least for a game, but also catering to the ancient stories which were about one Hero. The follower rules give the hero help while leaving them absolutely in the centre of things, and the battles are cinematic and epic - fights against Sea Raiders are scraps with warriors brawling all over the beach, and fights against monsters shake the earth. If you haven't learned about the creature, studied its story, then you are doomed to die at its claws.

The superb art draws you into the world, and the wonderful introduction by revisionary translator Maria Dahvana Headley really sets the scene that the story of Beowulf is at once timeless and modern. I'll be playing this game for years.