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 – 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 – The Contagion Chronicle

The Contagion Chronicle (Onyx Path Publishing) My first experience in crossover gaming in the modern supernatural horror genre came from playing on World of Darkness MUSHes. For the unfamiliar, they were text-based games, with computer-coded rules, that operated a little like an online LARP. You would create a character, log in, chat and interact with …

RPG Reviews – Liminal: Pax Londinium

Magician’s clubs, bridge trolls, and ghosts on the Thames...welcome to the Hidden World of the Pax Londinium. Paul Mitchener’s Liminal is a modern fantasy/horror game rooted in the folklore and locales of the British Isles. It’s a great game, with a really lovely vibe, and strongly focused on its geography. As someone who doesn’t live …

RPG Reviews – Legendlore (Manuscript Preview)

I've never played myself in a roleplaying game. Sure, I've inserted elements of my personality, consciously or unconsciously, as we all do, but playing Me as a character is a step I've never taken. Perhaps in part I'm self-conscious about accuracy or don't feel I would best represent myself in the situations in which an …

RPG Reviews – Romance of the Perilous Land

Romance of the Perilous Land (Osprey Games) I have loved Arthurian mythology and folklore since I was a child. My bedtime stories were the tales of the Round Table and I've devoured the various iterations of the stories over the years - from the classic versions to the "historical" gritty ones. While Celtic/British mythology is …

RPG Reviews – Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition

Changeling: The Lost Second Edition You were in the wrong part of town at the wrong time... It looked like a shortcut... The path led you to a world of nightmare and wonder beyond your imagination. You may never be completely certain what drew them to you. Maybe they had been watching you for a …