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Survival is one of the big themes in Mork Borg style games. It’s the end of your world as you know it, whether your world is one of fantasy, cyberpunk or even pulp duck adventure. Cast Away, from designer Matthew Chiamis, applies the Mork Borg aesthetic to a classic survival scenario. It’s also...

"Bored rich kid who gets into the occult because reasons" works well enough, but proper motivations help me portray villains and their reactions better, even the insane ones. What can I say, it's the theater kid in me.

Call of Cthulhu campaigns tend to come in two broad flavors. There are the globehopping pulp adventures of classics like Masks of Nyarlathotep or Horror On The Orient Express on the one side. On the other hand, there are campaigns set in “Lovecraft Country”, the New England countryside home to...

Link updated. That is, indeed, weird.

This hobby is inherently strange. We spend hours playing let’s pretend, crafting stories, painting tiny dolls and sitting around a table hanging out with friends. Yet that weirdness is also what makes these experiences memorable. Everyone has a story about how a story took a wrong turn or how a...

I think you could turn Pirate Borg into Our Borg Means Death with just a click or two of the dial. It has a Tim Burton feel in some sports, but back when Burton was legitimately weird like his Beetlejuice era. By the same token, I feel that way about Shadowdark. It seems like a great simple...

All of the games in the Morg Borg family are dark. (Spoiler alert, that’s what the word ‘mork’ means in Swedish). Vast Grimm, from designer Bran Colin, includes much of the same darkness one might expect from a game using the Mork Borg style and rules set. But hidden inside the review copy he...

That's a feature not a bug for me. Alien is consistently scary and dark because that's the license. They put out a book a year for that line so they have time to let it marinate to focus on the classic themes and mood. Mothership can afford to be more experimental. There's a firmer grasp on...

I'm aware of the delay to the printed materials; I'm a backer. Vaporware implies there's been no motion on the Kickstarter at all. I've been part of those Kickstarters that just stop. While Mothership is overdue, it's not been radio silent. They've done a great job on the PDFs with the Warden's...

There's plenty of goofy Cthulhu content out there too. I love the Blood Brothers books for CoC for example.

The full rules are out to backers. I'd hardly call that vaporware.

Games like Shadowdark and Mothership might still be in the process of coming together but that hasn't stopped their fans from creating material to support their favorite games. Mothership, in particular, has a vibrant community that supported the game for years. These creators are ready to have...

I picked up a cheap AoS rulebook from an earlier edition for more lore and very pretty pictures of painted models. It was not necessary but I found it useful for inspiration.

The Cthulhu Mythos and Dungeons & Dragons have a strange relationship. Entities of the Mythos appeared in the first Deities & Demigods only to be struck from later printings due to complications from a licensing agreement. Call of Cthulhu is one of the grand old dames of role playing games...

Most space RPGs straddle a spectrum. On the one side is exploration with all the strange new worlds and hexcrawl discovery expected by flying out into the black. On the other is economics full of wily trading, shifty smuggling and all the jobs taken to keep the ship full of fuel and the crew...