News & Reviews
The Siege Perilous
If you are even remotely interested in the Ultima series of computer roleplaying games and D&D you owe it to yourself to check out Michael Shorten’s excellent “The Siege Perilous” rules. Back in...
August 13, 2019
First Look: Fallout Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game
Later today Modiphius is going to launch the Fallout Wasteland Warfare RPG Expansion. A couple of days ago Modiphius graciously provided me with a copy, so I had the chance to give it...
July 1, 2019
Bundle of Holding: Advanced Fighting Fantasy
There’s a very interesting offer at “Bundle at Holding” right now for fans of Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Actually there are two offers: the “Advanced Fighting Fantasy” bundle which contains the Advanced Fighting Fantasy...
June 19, 2019
Kickstarter: Children of the Beast
Recently Nicholas Kitts, head of Nexus Shift Games, let us know about the kickstarter for their new tabletop roleplaying game called “Children of the Beast”. It’s set in a really weird and original...
June 13, 2019
Kickstarter: Golgotha Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Greg Saunders (check out my 2017 interview) is currently raising funds for his latest roleplaying game called “Golgotha Tabletop Roleplaying Game”. It’s a science fiction roleplaying game focused on exploration and discovery (with...
June 3, 2019
A first look at the Unity RPG–Part Two
This post concludes my first look/review of the fantasy RPG Unity. If you haven’t read Part One yet, you can check it out here. Before having a closer look at the rules, let’s...
May 15, 2019
A first look at the Unity RPG–Part One
Unity is a roleplaying game by Zensara Studios distributed by Modiphius which was crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in 2016. I really haven’t had it on my radar until Panny from Modiphius asked me...
May 10, 2019
Kickstarter: “Making History: Three One-Session RPGs”
Back in 2010, about a month after I finished writing WR&M I visited GenCon in Indianapolis. There a fellow RPG fan called Tristan Zimmerman did an interview with me for his RPG podcast....
May 7, 2019
Alien RPG coming from Free League
It’s no secret that I love everything Free League Publishing (aka Fria Ligan) has released so far. Mutant: Year Zero (see my review here) is definitely my favorite game at the monent (including...
April 29, 2019
Kickstarter: Odyssey of the Dragonlords
Modiphius is more active than ever. I just heard from their PR assistant Panny that they just recently started another Kickstarter project which has been funded in its first 24 hours. They are...
April 17, 2019
James Albert Smith Jr (1968–2019)
On April 10th James Smith known for his OSR blog Dreams of Mythic Fantasy passed away. I didn’t really know him, but I’ve read his blog from time to time. Regardless it always...
April 17, 2019
John Carter of Mars Live Play
I don’t actually remember when I first learned about Edgar Rice Burrough’s series of books about a civil war veteran from Virginia who suddenly finds himself on Mars, but I immediately fell in...
April 16, 2019
Escape The Noose, A Zweihänder Adventure
ESCAPE THE NOOSE is a Zweihänder adventure from Nights of the Shed that makes full use of the Main Gauche [MG] supplement. The booklet does say that you may want to use Main...
April 14, 2019
More Modiphius News: Grimmerspace
It seems the folks at Modiphius are on a roll right now. Recently I shared news about their upcoming Fallout RPG and the new Achtung! Cthulhu edition for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition....
March 13, 2019