Devil’s Staircase:Wild West Crowdfunding
Over two years ago I started knocking an idea around for a playing card-driven Wild West game. A year ago it was complete enough to go to playtesting. Today it is on Indiegogo...
October 18, 2019
Get “Tales From The Loop” For Free
In order to celebrate the release of their new campaign module “Out Of Time“, Fria Ligan is giving away the digital version of their award-winning roleplaying game Tales From The Loop today. If...
October 10, 2019
A Quick Glance at The New Cypher System Rulebook
A while back Monte Cook Games released a revised edition of their Cypher System Rulebook. While the system itself is mostly unchanged from the previous book, its better organized and they added some...
October 7, 2019
Quick and Easy Friends
I am all in favour of an easy life. Although I have never played 5e it [D&D] hasn’t changed that much in past 40+ years that I cannot look at a stat block...
October 4, 2019
Domains Horror
It is impossible to hang out with TTRPG designers, follow them on twitter or any social media and escape a near barrage of Kickstarter campaigns. Some are eagerly awaited and there is a...
September 14, 2019
Guest Post: Combat of the Thirty
Handling chivalry in RPGs is hard. Genre fiction loves chivalry and honor almost as much as it loves jaded pessimism – and it often shoves the two philosophies together in ways that seem...
September 10, 2019
First Look: Simple Fantasy Adventure
Retro-clones are all the rage nowadays but most of the games from that category are based on the grand-daddy of all RPGs: Dungeons & Dragons. Recently a few retro-clones of other games have...
August 27, 2019
On the History of D&D
Today I read an interesting post on Kotaku, called Dungeons & Deceptions, about the role Dave Arneson had in the development of D&D. According to Rob Kuntz and others, the commonly told story...
August 27, 2019
Less well-known OSR Games worth a Look
Over the last decade or so, playing older editions of D&D or their modern simulacra has been pretty popular. Back in the day people wanted to play like in the old days, but...
August 26, 2019
Review: Elite Dangerous Roleplaying Game
I still remember when I first saw the space-trading computer game Elite. It was a friend’s house and he showed me this snazzy new game on his Commodore 64 computer. I was totally...
August 21, 2019
Please Help Mindjammer Press
A few days ago, Chris, the husband of Sarah Newton lost his fight against cancer. Even though I didn’t personally know him, the news has affected me deeply and I wish I could...
August 17, 2019
I Can’t Make Up My Mind
Recently I decided I should finally give BECMI a chance. I asked a couple of friends if they were interested in creating characters to which they agreed. We initially planned to meet two...
August 16, 2019
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
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