2022 Character Creation Challenge (2022/01 CCC)

Hello readers! My output in the latter portion of 2021 slowed down for all sorts of life reasons, so I’m looking forward to getting back into the groove and bringing you a pile of new reviews, along with a project I meant to get to, and some new features that expand the scope of the …

RPG Reviews – Old School Essentials Classic & Advanced Fantasy (Necrotic Gnome)

Recently I got hit with a real bout of nostalgia. Browsing around DriveThruRPG I looked at, and read the histories of, scores of old D&D products that I missed out on the first time around. I remember the ads and being intrigued, but either cost or over-investment in other games held me back. So I …

RPG Reviews – Sigil & Shadow (Osprey Games)

I started reading Stephen King at 11, Charles de Lint at 12 or 13, and started playing White Wolf games at 14. The modern supernatural horror/fantasy genre has been a fascination of mine for almost 30 years and with good reason! It's a compelling concept, that of a shadow world alongside ours, populated by monsters, …

RPG Reviews – Jackals (Osprey Games)

You don’t frequently find the Bronze Age used as a source for game settings. Besides Runequest, some indie games, and the implicit default setting of Mythras, most fantasy settings are either Medieval, faux-Medieval, or fantastical. It’s a shame, because there’s such a richness of material to draw on from that era in world history and …

RPG Reviews – Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

In much the same fashion as the Vigil Watch series, Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad helps flesh out the continent of Ghelspad in the Scarred Lands. Where the Vigil Watch focuses more on setting, Yugman’s Guide is exclusively player character mechanics: Races, Class Archetypes, Backgrounds, Gear, and Spells. Each Part is between 18-21 pages including cover …

RPG Reviews – Warhammer: Age of Sigmar – Soulbound (Cubicle 7)

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound The world ended in a conflagration of Chaos. The God-King Sigmar was cast into the void and, once rescued, gathered the remaining gods of Order to form his pantheon. Together they brought civilization to the new worlds of the Mortal Realms. However, Chaos is insidious and corrupted the people, then …

RPG Reviews – They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing)

They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing) It began with the bottom shelf of a corner video store... Friends had discovered a movie so cheesy and hilarious that all of our group had to watch it, and watch it we did- many times over. That movie was Evil Dead 2 and it opened …

Comics Review – The RPG Connection

Hello dear readers! I’m doing something new with this post: reviewing comics that have a connection to a published tabletop roleplaying game. I think it’s likely that many of us have read some “game fiction” at some point in our time in the hobby. My start was the Dragonlance Chronicles 2: Dragons of Winter Night. …

RPG Reviews – Scarred Lands Creature Collection (Handiwork Games & Onyx Path Publishing)

Scarred Lands Creature Collection (Handiwork Games & Onyx Path Publishing) Bestiaries are fun! I have very fond memories of repeatedly perusing the Monster Manuals (and later Monstrous Manual) for AD&D 1st and 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual. The best part, of course, being when I found a foe I couldn’t wait to throw at my players …

RPG Reviews – Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition – Cults of the Blood Gods (Onyx Path Publishing)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Onyx Path Publishing) Someone really wants me to start playing Vampire: The Masquerade again. Reading Cults of the Blood Gods is like discovering the game all over again. There are familiar elements and revised pieces and wholly new inclusions and it gives me the feel I got when I first …