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My guess is that each chapter will be a mini sourcebook for each of the main Avengers with the profiles being their villains, related heroes and significant alterate identities, For example, the Iron Man chapter will be about Stark Industries with his various armored rivals and maybe a different...

I think this is a stronger Cypher System horror guide than their dedicated book on the subject.

In case you hadn’t noticed from my reviews, horror is my favorite RPG genre. This favor filters through many of my other media preferences including TV shows, movies and podcasts. Last year, Monte Cook Games took on one of my favorite horror podcasts with Old Gods of Appalachia: The Role Playing...

The other books include small expansions like more rooms and such. This one has a whole other book with full adventures that lead outside of Mitra's Fist and the towers, plus one sold seperately that leads into Dark Tower. I think DCC is a better fit for these older modules. I'm looking forward...

Influential media often gets the deluxe boxed set treatment. Important movies, albums and TV shows get a release chock full of deleted materials, essays by famous people influenced by the media and commentary by the creators about the choices they made making the thing. Goodman Games has been...

Yep. I was saving that for a review once I read it. It's about artifacts connected to the Innsmouth Raid.

Read any evil books lately? Spellbooks and grimoires are often at the center of horror stories. They make good treasures to seek, whether to learn more about the monsters ravaging the countryside to potentially having a spell or some other means to take down the monster. This is most common in...

Shadowrun was my great first love as a game designer. It’s one of the best examples of the kitchen sink games that came out of the late 80s and early 90s that wildly mashed up genre flavors like unsupervised kids at a soda fountain. It’s a concept that appeals to the kid in many of us; who...

The bundle also has some great additional support like more handouts, pre-built adventures and a whole other campaign frame.

Night’s Black Agents combines two of my big pop culture passions: spies and vampires. It pits them against each other as the players are cast as haunted (perhaps literally) operatives who stumble upon a bloodsucking conspiracy that they have to bring into the light. A recent Humble Bundle gave...

Exploration remains one of the joys of many role playing games. Whether discovering new characters, mapping out deadly dungeons or even just trying to scrape every ounce of gold from an evil lair, players love to take their characters into the unknown. Ultraviolet Grasslands from designer Luka...

Roleplaying games are an oral tradition. They come from dark evenings where people took turns telling stories around a fire to pass the time. Sometimes these stories entertain and sometimes they thrill. While they might share a general outline of good people going into a cursed place and coming...

Thanks for the insight! I really appreciate the elements of advice. I think a lot of folks write this type of material with a base assumption about what the reader already knows. Going back to basics helps those who don't have that original experience and acts as a good refresher for those who do.

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...