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 – Deep Magic: Winter Magic & Mythos Magic

One of the best parts about a gaming system is seeing how it works when you tweak it; changing some fundamental elements can turn the entire game on its head. Since the magic systems are one of the most distinctive parts of D&D, informing the cosmology and structure of the worlds, altering them can make …

RPG Reviews – Chronicles of Darkness

Chronicles of Darkness - Onyx Path Publishing Disclosure: DriveThruRPG links in this article are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support my efforts to bring you reviews of fun and interesting games! Abandon hope, all who enter here... …