I could keep this up for another couple months. Day 15: Frame. I often stumble over game mechanics. The more simulationist, the more the mechanics try to… Read more “RPG a Day 2020: Week Three”
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Tabletop RPG Review: Doom of the Savage Kings
Mix in The Hound of the Baskervilles, Beowulf by way of “The 13th Warrior,” and a few dashes of “Brotherhood of the Wolf,” and you’ve got a… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Doom of the Savage Kings”
RPG a Day 2020: Week Two
Even when I’m not actively participating in my chosen hobby, it’s nice to think about. Day 8: Shade. Crom knows I’ve been guilty of throwing shade… Read more “RPG a Day 2020: Week Two”
Tabletop RPG Review: DCC Quick Start 2020
Part of the greater renaissance of tabletop gaming that’s been going on lately is Free RPG Day. Modeled after Free Comic Book Day, it’s a sort of… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: DCC Quick Start 2020”
Tabletop RPG Review: Creep, Skrag, Creep!
Another Dungeon Crawl Classics “Horror” module, this level zero “funnel” adventure seems like a real meat grinder. According to author “Spooky” Stephen Newton, it led to a… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Creep, Skrag, Creep!”
RPG A Day 2020: Week One
I started participating in RPG a Day a few years ago. At the time, I’d attempted to run one game in about 10 years and it hadn’t… Read more “RPG A Day 2020: Week One”
Tabletop RPG Review: Nephilim
This was a tough one to review. On the one hand, I think it’s a solid book and an RPG that would be great for the right… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Nephilim”
Comic Review: Bone: Crown of Horns
The final volume of Jeff Smith’s beloved comic series Bone. I don’t know. Maybe it was years of folks telling me how good it was. Maybe it… Read more “Comic Review: Bone: Crown of Horns”
Comic Review: Bone: Treasure Hunters
It’s the next to last volume, yet so much of it is spent on Phoney Bone being exactly the same character he’s been since the first volume. … Read more “Comic Review: Bone: Treasure Hunters”
Tabletop RPG: Rapture: The Second Coming
Rapture: The Second Coming is a product of its time. If this came out today, it would be a setting book for a successful ‘generic’ system, like… Read more “Tabletop RPG: Rapture: The Second Coming”
Matthew J. Constantine 