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Call of Cthulhu fills an interesting niche in the role-playing hobby. Where many other role-playing games champion escapism, Call of Cthulhu has always been decidedly anti-escapist. Players create normal people who are thrust into terrifying and utterly alien situations. The end result is a game...

I have a fairly high bar for using adventures in my games, mostly because I have never been a GM for using pre-written adventures in my games. Outside of the occasional one shot, I prefer to avoid them. When I come across an adventure like Mortzengersturm, The Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peak...

Always one to keep up to date on the latest gaming trends, I have been finding myself drawn to the classic World of Darkness lately. I know, I'm only just over 20 years too late to jump on this bandwagon, but I have gotten the Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse twentieth...

If Wizards of the Coast limits its Dungeons & Dragons output to a steady flow of products, the Dungeon Masters Guild amounts to a constantly rushing fire hose. Gamers can find a wealth of polished products on the DMs Guild, many of which feature original art and pro-quality design. But a...

I considered filling this lede with as many revolution jokes as word count would allow. I decided against doing that. Revolution D100 is the latest entry into the already busy marketplace of percentile-based games inspired by the various works from the history of Chaosium and derived from the...

I'll play Fuzion any day over most super-hero games. :cool: However, I was really surprised to see that included in this, because I know how a lot of Hero fans feel about it.

I don't often plug the Bundle of Holding in this column, but I think that today's release of two bundles of Champions/Hero System 4E material deserves a mention. As someone who is a big fan of comic books (moreso than I am a gamer, which is really saying something), super-hero role-playing games...

There's this: https://twitter.com/JoeManganiello/status/845094497620967425

During the Nineties I played a lot of GURPS. For a long time, it was my go-to system for just about everything from horror to conspiracy to science fiction gaming. If there wasn't a GURPS 3E supplement for a genre or setting idea, I might not have played it. Yes, GURPS was everything that people...

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Brave New World was a super-hero role-playing game that came out on the cusp of the Nineties from Pinnacle Entertainment Group, designed and written by now New York Times best-selling novelist Matt Forbeck. The game ended up at Alderac Entertainment Group, who didn't do a lot with the game over...

We've been hinting at this for a few months now on social media, but EN World is now ready to roll out the community-generated content program that starts what we hope will be a new wave of tabletop gaming writers and bloggers. We have a set of guidelines up that outline the details of this new...

I do like a good horror game, and Chill has always been a good horror game. I have played the first edition from Pacesetter Games and the second edition put out by Mayfair Games. Either edition was an interesting alternative to the other horror games of those times, like Chaosium's Call of...

Convention season is upon us again. Even as we speak the GAMA Trade Show is going on in Las Vegas as the unofficial start to the year's gaming convention season. Over the next few months we have a number of gaming stretching from the Old School conventions of Gary Con and the North Texas RPG...

It might surprise some that some of the most revolutionary advice for game masters would be tucked into a supplement for Champions back in 1988. Aaron Allston's Strike Force pushed a lot of young game masters into new directions with just a few pages of his talking about what he did in his home...

I won't lie. I have always had mixed feelings about random tables in role-playing games. When they're done well, they can really lighten the load of a GM who needs some quick fill in bits. When they're done poorly, they can result in bits that just don't fit into the flow of a game and brings...

Gentle men and women of noble birth, it has come to my attention, as one who engages in the edification of the public in regards to the latest publications in the field of tabletop gaming suitable for those mostly of more commonplace backgrounds, that we are graced with a new edition of the game...

Family and industry friends are reporting that seminal game designer Loren Wiseman has passed away. The exact cause of death is not yet known, but he has had long term health issues. Wiseman co-founded Game Designers' Workshop with Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, and Marc Miller in 1973, and...

Considering that I am considering running a game with the Classic Marvel Super-Heroes game from TSR, I don't believe that there are obsolete systems either. I think in RPGs it would be more a case of designing for a specific place and use, and then moving on. I think that this type of...