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 – They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing)

They Came From Beneath the Sea! (Onyx Path Publishing) It began with the bottom shelf of a corner video store... Friends had discovered a movie so cheesy and hilarious that all of our group had to watch it, and watch it we did- many times over. That movie was Evil Dead 2 and it opened …

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 – Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius)

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.” —from the Manual of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan How does one begin a project like the Dune RPG? What are the discussions like? What goes through everyone’s head as they …

RPG Reviews – Charlie Foxtrot Adventure Compendium (Battlelords of the 23rd Century)

Charlie Foxtrot Adventure Compendium (23rd Century Productions LLC.) When diving into a new game and setting, it can sometimes be overwhelming to plan out adventures and scenarios. Maybe the setting is very expansive, so it can be hard to narrow down just what kind of game to play, or there’s a particular feel the GM …

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 – 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 – 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 …