Tomes of Cthulhu
Bear with me on this one… Recently I have looked at the Fria Ligan games. I like their mechanics and it satisfies my desire for a rules lite but flavour rich game. In these...
January 12, 2018
News & Reviews
Coriolis
I have spent some of my down time over Christmas reading up on Coriolis from free league publishing. I was super impressed with Mutant:Year Zero with its beautifully simple skill resolution mechanics, the...
December 31, 2017
Game Master Emulators
I half expected Micheal to post this morning, it being Christmas eve. In our house we celebrate a Swiss Christmas today and then do a British one tomorrow as the two halves of...
December 24, 2017
Gaming All Day, Gaming All Night
Today I thought I would do a bit of an opinion piece just to break up the number of game read throughs I have done recently. I like to think that deep down...
December 12, 2017
Mutant:Year Zero
I have read just about everything that is available to get for free several times in the past couple of weeks and this looks like an awesome game and I really want to...
December 8, 2017
A Look At Awaken
A while back Zoltan Lečei from The Games Collective, a Croatian game developer, contacted me and told me about their game Awaken which had been successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2015. Awaken is...
December 5, 2017
Conan II
I have based this look at the Conan rpg on the quick start rules and the Conan Free RPG Day 2017 version Pit of Kutallu. When Michael reviewed the full rule book the...
November 26, 2017
First Impressions of West End Games D6
I am one of those people who is an incredibly slow reader. If Mrs R is showing me an article on a webpage she is forever trying to scroll down long before I...
November 10, 2017
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A Look At Shadow of the Demon Lord
This morning, when I thought about writing about Shadow of the Demon Lord, I was totally amazed that I haven’t actually mentioned it on the blog at all. Robert Schwalb’s Shadow of the...
November 6, 2017
Looking for a spiritual home.
Excepting this past year, I have spent the last 25 years pretty much just playing the same game system, Rolemaster and its sci fi cousin Spacemaster. I have just recently started to look...
October 28, 2017
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What about Starfinder? A review….
In early 2010 one of my first posts on this blog was a review of Pathfinder. It is only fitting that seven years and a few months later I review Paizo’s newest hit...
October 21, 2017
Preview: FrontierSpace Referee’s Handbook
As I stated in my recent review of the FrontierSpace PHB, FrontierSpace is one of the most exciting releases this year. Even though I have played and even written fantasy roleplaying games before,...
October 16, 2017
Review: FrontierSpace Player’s Handbook
It’s a great time for fans of science-fiction roleplaying games. Kevin Crawford has just successfully kickstarted a revised edition of Stars Without Number, Green Ronin recently accounced a roleplaying game based on the...
October 1, 2017
Eclipse Phase Second Edition Open Play Test
This game is currently in open play test and to me looks really good. I mean that both literally, the art and book layout of the quick start PDF is outstanding and as...
September 7, 2017
A Look At The Exodus System by Jacob Ross
I am always on the lookout for new and exciting game systems, and so it’s not surprising that I eventually found out about Jacob Ross’ Exodus System. It was inspired by various games...
September 7, 2017
Mission Aborted!
It was my intention today to write about the new open play-test of Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition. As it happens on Saturday morning the play test files were updated the latest edition so...
September 3, 2017
Eclipse Phase (quick-start rulebook)
I have been looking at the Eclipse Phase quick-start rules this week. This is a system after my own heart. It is d100 which is my spiritual home anyway, it is visually beautiful...
August 31, 2017