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 – Symbaroum & Starter Set (Free League)

The forest of Davokar holds dreams and nightmares. Tread carefully, for you may find both. After the war with the Dark Lords, the nation of Alberetor was in ruins. Queen Korinthia decreed her people should travel north, across the mountain range of the Titans, to settle in the land beyond, on the borders 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 – Jackals (Osprey Games)

You don’t frequently find the Bronze Age used as a source for game settings. Besides Runequest, some indie games, and the implicit default setting of Mythras, most fantasy settings are either Medieval, faux-Medieval, or fantastical. It’s a shame, because there’s such a richness of material to draw on from that era in world history and …

RPG Reviews – Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

In much the same fashion as the Vigil Watch series, Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad helps flesh out the continent of Ghelspad in the Scarred Lands. Where the Vigil Watch focuses more on setting, Yugman’s Guide is exclusively player character mechanics: Races, Class Archetypes, Backgrounds, Gear, and Spells. Each Part is between 18-21 pages including cover …

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 – Songs for the Dead (Vault Comics)

In the first review of this series, I focused on comics with a direct connection to roleplaying games - as in set in the same universes, even containing rules for those games. But not every RPG has its own comic line and there are plenty out there that can provide great inspiration for your own …

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. …