[Fanzine Focus XXXIV] The Travellers’ Digest #2
On the tail of the Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural...
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The very latest entry in the Ticket to Ride franchise is Ticket to Ride: Paris. Like those other Ticket to Ride games, it is another card-drawing, route-claiming board game based around transport links...
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Willow lies far up a river, on the shores of its source, the Lake of Tears, deep within a vast forest. The lake is famed for the weeping willow trees which line its shores, their branches hanging low...
View ArticleQuick-Start Saturday: Coriolis: The Great Dark Quickstart
Quick-starts are means of trying out a roleplaying game before you buy. Each should provide a Game Master with sufficient background to introduce and explain the setting to her players, the rules to...
View ArticleThe Sanctum Sufficiency Guide
In the mile-high tower of the Spire, the Aelfir—the High Elves—enjoy lives of extreme luxury, waited upon by the Destra—the Drow—whom they have subjugated and continue to oppress the criminal...
View ArticleCthulhu ‘Old Style’ like its 1981
The first thing that you notice about Cthulhu Hack, Second Edition is how surprisingly white and colourful it is. There is bold use of colour in its chapter headings and then the rest of the book is...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #273: Flash Cthulhu – Be Good Neighbours
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #274: Kane’s Tone
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleMagazine Madness 29: Senet Issue 9
The gaming magazine is dead. After all, when was the last time that you were able to purchase a gaming magazine at your nearest newsagent? Games Workshop’sWhite Dwarfis of course the exception, but it...
View ArticleFriday Fantasy: A Gift for all of Norway
The land of Norway is one of mountain ranges and fjords, and according to legend, one of the mountain ranges is not at a mountain range at all! Instead, it is the body of a Jötunn, Hrungnir, who has...
View ArticlePsychics Save the Free World!
A line of cars, black, with the Stars & Stripes fluttering from the bonnet. The scene jumps. A cheering crowd, flags in their hands, waving. A band strikes up with anthem that always announces his...
View ArticleJonstown Jottings #90: Rubble Redux: Insula of the Waning Moon
Much like the Miskatonic Repository forCall of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content, but for material set in Greg Stafford’s mythic universe of...
View ArticleYour Wrath & Glory Starter Set II
In the far future of the 41st Millenium, the Gilead System has been isolated from the Imperium of Man by the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Great Rift that unleashed waves of supernatural darkness and...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #275: The Schoolmarm’s Ghost
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #276: Pass the Giggle Water
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleFriday Filler: Thunderbirds Danger Zone: The Game
First broadcast six decades ago, Thunderbirds is a classic of British children’s television, combining the advanced puppetry of ‘Supermarionation’ with superb scale models and special effects. The...
View ArticleFriday Fantasy: Grave Matters
Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar #9: Grave Mattersis a scenario forGoodman Games’Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and the ninth scenario for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Boxed Set....
View ArticleSolitaire: Rectify
In life, you were one of society’s reprobates or worse. You were evil, villainous, even. You committed murder. You committed acts of fraud. You stole. You dealt drugs. Your actions hurt people. In life...
View ArticleOn A Dark Desert Highway
When thirteen people vanish along Highway 70 in the Arizona desert in a matter of weeks, a stretch of road that the press calls it the ‘Devil’s Highway’, local enforcement is at a loss to explain the...
View ArticleClassic Era Science Fiction Gaming
Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition is a Science Fiction roleplaying game with a long history. If Dungeons & Dragons has its own Systems Reference Document containing guidelines for publishing content...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #277: Hail to the King
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleMiskatonic Monday #278: The Viscount Who Left Me
Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for Call of Cthulhu under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario,...
View ArticleGrudge from the Grave
The Nature of the Beast is a scenario set in an England rent by division and strife during the reign of Charles I. This division is between the Protestantism of the country and the Catholicism of Rome,...
View ArticleFriday Fantasy: Asterion
It is difficult to describe what Asterion is without being as direct as its author is. So not to beat about the bush, Asterion is a sex dungeon. Asterion is a sex dungeon for Lamentations of the Flame...
View ArticleCalamity & Customer Service
Just after you review one roleplaying game about running a coffee shop with difficult customers designed to be run on its own or as corollary on top of just about any roleplaying game imaginable, along...
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