2022/01 CCC #2 Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4E

After a brief MERP and Palladium Fantasy dalliance, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was my “next” fantasy rpg after D&D. The first edition was weird and brutal and we didn’t play enough of it. I picked up the 2nd edition when it came out, regrettably let it go in a move, grabbed the entire line when it …

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 – Children of the Blood (Onyx Path Publishing)

Children of the Blood It’s always helpful to have a list of go-to non-player characters to use in your games. Maybe you need to flesh out your setting, find yourself in need of a background character on short notice, or are tired of creating them yourself. For whatever reason, books focused on a set of …

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 – 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 …

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 – The City of the Steam Sun

Designed for the Savage Worlds system, The City of the Steam Sun is a fantasy-steamtech game set in a close-but-not-quite version of our world in the late 1800s. It is composed of two books, the Book of Mortals, which is player-facing, and the Book of Creator, which covers GM material and contains some introductory adventures. …

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 …