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 – World of Darkness: Ghost Hunters (Onyx Path Publishing)

A friend once asked me what I thought the hardest game to play was. It only took the time required to type “Wraith: The Oblivion” to provide an answer. I didn’t mean that it’s unplayable - I’ve played it and loved it - I just meant that the core concept and setting, supported by 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 – Geist: The Sin-Eaters Second Edition

Life never lasts... Death is never far from our mind. Regardless of the circumstances of the time in which we live - we all face it in one form or another. It's no surprise that death and the afterlife are so pivotal to the structures of world religions and a constant subject of scientific and …

RPG Reviews – Cypher System Rulebook

Cypher System Rulebook The world was first introduced to Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System in the original Numenera game. This far (far!) future science-fantasy world presented combative Glaives (Warriors), inquisitive Nanos (“wizards”), and wily Jacks (Rogue-types), who explored the Ninth World looking for the Numenera - items of legend and the past. These came in …

RPG Reviews – The Witcher

The Witcher - R. Talsorian Games Years ago in Poland I was recommended the pride of Polish fantasy: Andrzej Sapkowski's "Witcher" series. At the time only two books were available in English: The Last Wish and Blood of Elves. I devoured the former and enjoyed the latter, though not as much - I feel that …

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 …

RPG Reviews – Liminal

Liminal - by Paul Mitchener Available from Modiphius. "Ghosts in the doorway, and dreams underfoot." It's been a long time since I last saw Canadian modern fantasy author Charles de Lint mentioned in a roleplaying game. I'm sure he was listed as inspiration in White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming, but can't actually be certain. Despite …