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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...

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...