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One of the most surreal discussions I’ve had as a parent is explaining the concept of Saturday morning cartoons. Yes, there was once a time when kids got up early, loaded up on sugary cereals and watched a variety of toy commercials masquerading as TV shows. No on demand streaming or pausing to...

According to the internet, everyone will, at some point, go on adventure with Pedro Pascal as he escorts A Special Child Through A Bad World. This concert peaked a few years ago when Pascal was the lead in both The Mandalorian and The Last of Us but it was the first thing I thought about when I...

One of the main advantages of playing a licensed RPG is playing in a world everyone at the table already knows. It’s fun to imagine your characters crossing paths with the heroes you all love, facing the bad guys you all hate and kicking off each session with the theme song that gets stuck in...

I agree about the Safehouse and Acquisition rules but I can also see someone getting upset about buying a book that has class options for stuff that they have to buy other books to be able to use. I would still probably buy Sin or Strata before getting Magister's Guide just because both of those...

In days gone by, companies used to put out new supplements every month or so. This was how many publishers kept the lights on by promising new rules or an advancing storyline for players already locked into their games. This has since shifted to a model featuring less releases that cover more...

Xcrawl has been around for 20 years, first published as a D&D Third Edition supplement and then a Pathfinder version. It’s been circling around Goodman Games for a few years before finally landing a Kickstarter for XCrawl Classics. Dungeon Crawl Classics seems like a good system for a game that...

Honestly, it's just the picture. If we're playing a game that requires scaling, it's easy to say "You want that white dragon to be the end boss? Okay, well, it's ancient, so it's a lot tougher than you might expect."

Villains are an important part of every RPG campaign. The expectation is that the Game Master will devise some sort of compelling Big Bad which will wow the players and drive them to adventure. While this can be the case, the Game Master can take some steps to have players help with the heavy...

While I do seem to review a lot of OSR stuff here, there's plenty of stuff that I read and don't write up. A lot of OSR stuff is guilty of brushing off design flaws with nostalgia. There's always going to be a little bit of nostalgia in these things but some layer on a thick coating of nostalgia...

That's correct. If you love OSE or Shadowdark and want just the setting bits for one of those games, that's the one you want.

One of the main hallmarks of OSR design is minimalist design. These games want to call back to that feeling of cracking open an ancient boxed set, rolling up a few characters and getting players into a fantasy world without a lot of worrying about rules, optimization or ten page character...

I reviewed the Super Skrull one here and the Murderworld one here. I also liked th Kang campaign but it is admittedly a bit sprawling compared to these.