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”
Tag: Violence
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
(Note: Since posting this review, it came out that M.A.R. Barker was a literal neo-Nazi, who fostered a truly awful worldview and worked to promote it. He… 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”
Book Review: Kalin
Dumarest is back. After rescuing a beautiful redhead with mysterious powers, things go from bad to worse…to worse still. Marooned on a really, really awful planet with… Read more “Book Review: Kalin”
Book Review: Toyman
There are 33 Dumarest of Terra books. Thirty three. Unfortunately, they’ve become kinda hard to come by these days, though I think maybe they’re available as e-books.… Read more “Book Review: Toyman”
Book Review: Empire of the East
Fred Saberhagen’s always been on my radar, but I’ve read very little. At some point, I read a few of his Berserker stories, and those were cool.… Read more “Book Review: Empire of the East”
