The fifth book in E.C. Tubb’s Dumarest of Terra series finds our hero hunting dangerous but valuable mushrooms on an extreme planet infested with wild and mutating… Read more “Book Review: The Jester at Scar”
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Best & Worst Movies of 2019
It’s that time again. I’m looking back at my favorite films of 2019, a year that wasn’t great, but wasn’t bad. Of course, I missed a… Read more “Best & Worst Movies of 2019”
Tabletop RPG Review: A Pound of Flesh
The second expansion for Mothership, A Pound of Flesh moves away from the more supernatural vibe of Dead Planet and into the human-made horror of super-science gone… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: A Pound of Flesh”
Tabletop RPG Review: The Courtship of the Flower Demons
Four Against Darkness at its most basic is a throwback to the early days of dungeon crawling tabletop RPGs, with random passages and encounters, and lots of… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: The Courtship of the Flower Demons”
Book Review: Crucible of War
Like any anthology, this is a mixed bag of quality. None of the stories in the book are bad, but only a couple are really good. Of… Read more “Book Review: Crucible of War”
Book Review: Consider Phlebas
I’ve heard about Iain M. Banks and his Culture novels for quite a while. They’d frequently be referenced in various Science Fiction conversations. When I’d see his… Read more “Book Review: Consider Phlebas”
Book Review: The Man of Gold
Way, way, way back when I was first scoping out tabletop role-playing games at a local shop, I remember flipping through some Tekumel book or another. Along… Read more “Book Review: The Man of Gold”
Tabletop RPG Review: Cyberpunk 2020
Cyberpunk is a subgenre that’s always appealed to me, for reasons that are often beyond me. I’m not into computers, never was. I’m not much of a… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Cyberpunk 2020”
Tabletop RPG Review: Mothership
Science Fiction and Horror are my two favorite genres for Tabletop Role Playing, so mixing them together is a no-brainer. Tuesday Knight Games’s Mothership is a tiny… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Mothership”
Tabletop RPG Review: Over the Edge
Well, that was mighty strange. Over the Edge was a very “outside the box” game way back in the first Golden Age of tabletop RPGs, the 90s… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Over the Edge”
