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 – Infinity Player’s Guide

There’s a lot going on in the Infinity game, so having a guidebook for players that summarizes just what they’ll need to know is immensely helpful. It’s also great to have for GMs as a quick refresher and reference guide with a smaller page count! Four paragraphs provide a succinct and through explanation of Infinity …

RPG Reviews – Infinity Faction Books: PanOceania and Yu Jing

The Infinity factions actually pair pretty well together, as I’m discovering through reading them. Previously, I reviewed Ariadna and Haqqislam, both explorers and sort-of middle ground when it comes to the Human Sphere - not the Hyperpowers we’ll look at here and not the fringe cases like the Nomads or Aleph (only in a sense, …

RPG Reviews – Deviant: The Renegades (Onyx Path Publishing)

Deviant: The Renegades Backerkit Preorder There’s something viscerally satisfying about a good revenge story. Righting wrongs, standing up for oneself, punishing the wicked - all these elements strike deep chords in their audience. It’s wildly entertaining to watch a plot unfold as the bad guy is taken down, or see the hero battle their way …

RPG Reviews – Cyberpunk Red

Cyberpunk Red (R. Talsorian Games) Like with many of us, it started with Neuromancer and a sky the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. My original copy is staring at me from my bookshelf as I type this. When my father handed me the slim paperback and I cracked it’s spine, I entered …

RPG Reviews – Infinity: Mercenaries Sourcebook

I like playing mercenary factions in miniature wargames. Even though it’s fun to command forces with tight factional themes, I like the diversity of unit options and variance in aesthetics and style - whether my force is composed entirely of them or if I just take one or two units as auxiliaries to another force. …

RPG Reviews – The Stars Are Fire

The Stars Are Fire is a comprehensive companion to the Cypher System roleplaying game, focusing on science-fiction gaming in all forms. In addition to providing a deep analysis of the genre and how to apply it to Cypher games, it also provides a built-in setting “The Revel”, as a practical example of the book’s content. …

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 – Trinity Continuum: Aeon

Trinity Continuum: Aeon I mentioned in my review of the Trinity Continuum Core Rules that the original Trinity was one of my most memorable gaming experiences. As a result, I became incredibly excited that the game was returning. It would be an opportunity to revisit and revise the setting, rework the rules to account for …

RPG Reviews – Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook

Trinity Continuum Core Once upon a time there was a world of darkness, ruled by lords of gloom and doom, populated by tragic beings tragically lamenting their tragicness throughout their existences. But this darkness was not to last forever, and into it stole pinpricks of light, bright as the stars and borne aloft by powerful …