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 – 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 – Infinity

Infinity - The Roleplaying Game - Modiphius Infinity the Roleplaying Game is the ...well, roleplaying game version of Infinity: the Game, a skirmish-level miniatures wargame with, as I understand them, rather interesting mechanics. I haven't played the game yet, but have read that each player has only 3 turns to accomplish their objectives, and can …