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In this age of RPG ascendance, there’s no shortage of ways for gamers to make their hobby feel bigger. We can buy custom game tables, fancy dice sheaths and dice made from all sorts of artisanal sources. Adorablins, from Letiman Games, goes in the opposite direction. Everything you need to play...

Monster of the Week has the countdown where the Keeper explictly lays out what would happen in the mystery if the hunters never showed up. Monsters are built with a specific weakness in mind and the tension is between the players taking advantage of that weakness and the countdown ticking along...

A superweirdo is a main character in a story that follows a lot of the beats of a superhero story like secret identities, Fortresses of Solitude, saving the world but is not the usual masked billionaire or last son of a dying planet. Think of stories like Hellboy, Umbrella Academy or Doom Patrol...

Regular review readers probably have a decent picture of my tastes in RPGs. I prefer story over mechanics, character over plot and fiction over simulation. I also talk a lot about how I didn’t start with D&D so products that traffic in nostalgia of simpler dungeon crawling times have no hold...

Many RPGs have iconic adventures that have introduced thousands of people to their world. Adventures like Keep On The Borderlands, The Haunting, Dreamchipper and others will get fans of a certain system to break out into a smile and start telling war stories. For Delta Green, it’s the John Scott...

I've bounced off of many of those OSR games. I think SD resonates with me because it captures the feel of those dangerous early dungeon crawls without feeling beholden to design choices made 40 years ago. I like that it has customization options in the rules. I like that ancestry plus class is a...

It has some but BH digs a little deeper with dice drop maps and stuff like that.

Black hack does the roll under stat thing while SD does d20 plus modifiers against 4 DCs. Black hack classes are fairly static while SD ones give out new talents at level. SD also has new classes in expansions. Black hack has more of a hexcrawl focus while SD focuses on the dungeon. SD offers...

Blockbuster Kickstarters tend to be examples of the old adage of “An overnight success years in the making”. The recent Shadowdark one that raked in over a million USD is a perfect example. While The Arcane Library wasn’t as well known as some third party 5e creators, it was doing excellent work...

I'm not very deeply immersed in the lore and I think I could run this game from this book. Though it might not hurt to pick one one of those 40K novel/game humble bundles the next time they come out.

While most other folks were learning to bake bread or knit, my pandemic project was diving into the world of Warhammer. Cubicle 7 has three excellent lines that have engaged me over the past few years. It surprised me, then, that they announced a fourth gameline set in universe and a second in...

I have always enjoyed the Orks of the Warhammer setting. Maybe it’s juvenile humor shot through their existence. Maybe it’s the working class accents. Maybe it’s the glee of tearing down the gloomy institutions of the setting with giant spiky hammers and other over the top weapons. Warhammer...

For many long time gamers, Osprey Publishing will always be known as the company with the historical painting guides on the squeaky metal rack stuck in the corner of the friendly local gaming store. But they’ve been publishing actual games for quite a few years now, including the sleeper hit...