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This is the biggest strength of the game. You hear the pitch and your brain immediately crystalizes your weird hero concept without hearing anything else.

The 80’s remain one of the last times of weird wonder in the world. It’s a time when kids on bikes could find a secret pirate ship hidden below their town. A time when a teeanger could hang out with a mad scientist and have time travelling adventures. Game designer Rev. Joey Royale taps into...

That was more or less the premise of the WEG Indiana Jones game. "Oh, Indy's too busy right now, let's send in the B-team on this one."

I can only speculate they decided to not ship outside the US because dealing with people upset over that decision is easier for them than figuring out where is and is not a good place to directly ship product.

From what I've heard, it's how lost packages eat into the slim profit margins of gaming books. If you need to send three copies of a thing because the first two didn't get there, that's incentive to not send things there via international post. Better to wait until it gets to distribution where...

I have heard differently, but the key phrase missing here regardless is : for now. That could change between the time the KS ends and the books. Even if tariffs don't apply directly, they've added a layer of economic instability that's been a gut check to a lot of people in the industry. The...

It's unclear if they do or don't. Some companies have paid tariffs for books on the water. The books are likely not printed in the US. If they are imported to a warehouse here, then sent out to a backer, the tariff is paid by the publisher. Even if they are printed in the US, the current...

International shipping is a beast in normal times. In an era of Penguin Tariffs, I can see why a company would prefer not to risk direct shipping to fans outside the US.

Blades In The Dark is one of the most influential role playing games in the past decade. Multiple games use everything from the d6 pool system to long term projects measured in clocks. What began as an evolution from the Powered By The Apocalypse lineage of games has grown into its own robust...

Sword and sorcery games tend to appeal to the old school side of the role playing game audience. Source material like Howard’s Conan and Leiber’s Fafhrd greatly influenced Dungeons & Dragons and loom large in the minds of fans who have been in the hobby a long time. While heroic fantasy is...

When I review different titles in the same line, I try to spread them out. It keeps me from burning out and also gives you, the reader, a little bit of variety. However, Bundle of Holding is currently hosting a deal that includes both Old School Adventure Anthology titles, so I decided to bump...

This as a weird roadside attraction the caravan discovered sounds amazing.

Remember when making stuff up on the Internet was fun? When someone could post something silly and checking it out was interesting and not a desperate attempt to fight back real world horrors? Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, created by Trevor Roberts was one such online story. It purported to...

Sometimes you've got to stuff keywords in the headline to appease the Dread God Algorithm when you're trying to get the word out on an excellent game designer.

Even if you don't know Rodney Thompson’s name you are likely to have played one of his games. He’s the designer of Lords of Waterdeep and has worked on several editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars Saga Edition and many other role playing games. He started his own company, Scratchpad...

Modern day dungeon crawls exist on an interesting spectrum. On the one end, there’s gritty, dirty cave runs with a wild mix of monsters. On the other end, there’s wild fantasy with sentient mushrooms and breathing caves. It shows how many authors have interpreted the classics in their own way...

Agreed, but I think this is the first RPG aimed at Critters as a primary target. Candela was more of an indie experiment.