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One of the first requests I see when people pick up an OSR ruleset are suggestions for a first dungeon to show them off. Many of the games come with excellent opening scenarios such as The Hole In The Oak or Lost Citadel of The Scarlet Minotaur. Some folks use it as an opportunity to revisit...

When most people think of cyberpunk missions they think of slick technothriller heists where the runners duck and weave through corporate intrigue, webs of deceit and fixers just as likely to kill the crew as pay them. The original Tales From The Forlorn Hope is full of jobs like this, thanks to...

Ugh. Edit made. Thank you for the note, not sure why I had SNL cast members on my mind. The PDF is currently a Bundle of Holding deal through December 13th. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Slugblaster

If there is one constant in the chaotic time of our lives during our teenage years, it’s that we’ll do things that our parents won’t understand. It could be viral videos,strange music, odd haircuts or any one of a dozen things that are designed to establish separate identities from the...

Horror lies at the heart of Savage Worlds. The game began as a stripped down version of Deadlands that was used as a miniatures ruleset. It’s spent the last two decades evolving into a fast playing RPG that works with or without tactical minis combat. Deadlands came full circle to the rules in...

Chaosium pulled off quite the magic trick with the release of Gateways To Terror. The adventure collection contained three short adventures built to be run in an hour or two for new players, such as at a convention or a game store event. The company looks to pull off the trick again with No Time...

Robert J. Schwalb is a game design machine. From Green Ronin Publishing to Wizards of the Coast, he had a storied career before he went off to start his own company, Schwalb Entertainment. One of my great regrets as a massive Kickstarter backer was not getting behind Shadow of the Demon Lord...

Urban fantasy stories are about power. It’s usually the haves versus the have nots with the protagonists in the role of the underdog. It’s a model that’s worked wonders in role playing games of this style. It gives players something to do, there’s usually a common (ish) enemy to fight and it...

There tend to be two types of cities in fantasy campaigns. The first kind are neo-medieval museum spaces where magic helps smooth over the differences between what the players know and what historians might quibble about. The second are filthy urban nightmares that reflect the anxieties of...

We are living in a wonderful time when there are two great space horror RPGs on the market. I own both Alien and Mothership because they have their own strengths. Alien lives in the iconic space horror setting and lets players try to survive against the infamous Xenomorph, the hard laws of space...

While there’s naturally been a lot of attention devoted to Dungeons & Dragons this year because of the 50th Anniversary, it’s also good to see other classic games return to the public consciousness. Cyberpunk 2077 has a shaky launch but has not just survived but thrived since then thanks to a...