Review: The Stone Heir (The Phlogiston Books, #2)
November 1st, 2018I really enjoyed half of this book, namely the Pigs from the Pit (a transitional adventure for level 0 characters going to level 1) and the…
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Review: Doom of the Savage Kings
November 1st, 2018This adventure offers three things: a nicely fleshed out town with a serious problem that needs to be dealt with soon and a lingering sense…
Review: Spire
November 2nd, 2018To date, I’ve played in exactly one Powered by the Apocalypse RPG and only one session: The Sprawl. I thoroughly enjoyed myself with that…
Blights of the Eastern Forest Rumor Table and Loot
October 3rd, 2018As part of my review for Sky ov Crimson Flame, I mentioned that I wanted to make a rumor table and roll up some loot for the Blights of the…
Review: Sky ov Crimson Flame
October 3rd, 2018Some preamble: I buy a lot of RPG material. Rulebooks, modules, random tables, settings, zines, and so forth. I’m a bit of a hoarder when it…
OSR Guide for the Perplexed
October 2nd, 2018Recently Google announced that they’re shutting down Google+ in 10 months. Before I really got into RPGs, Google+ was merely the butt of a…
Gen Con 2017
August 4th, 2017Thursday, August 24th You’d be surprised how much exercise is involved in a convention about board games. I walked about 28 miles in the…
The Re-Review: After the Auction
September 1st, 2016Mombasa 2 plays with 2 people New to me I’m not sure what I was expecting with this game. It languished on the shelf for a while, largely…
The Re-Review: Birth of a Child!
August 3rd, 2016Scythe 1 play with 5 people Played before This was the third time I’ve played the game and the first time where it wasn’t truly a blowout…
The Re-Review: WesCon Summer 2016
July 1st, 2016The Voyages of Marco Polo 1 plays with 2 people Played before This is a game that seems to get forgotten about in our house for no good…