A billion years from now, the Internet will still dominate our lives – but there will almost certainly be a lot less in the way of cat pictures, food porn, and spam sites about all-natural male enhancement… Numenera – Monte Cook’s runaway roleplaying Kickstarter success story of 2013 – works well when hitting upon themes […]
Guess What’s Coming to Dinner: Reviewing The Esoterror Summoning Guide
The Membrane is a border between our reality and the Outer Dark, a dimension filled with terrors and darkness. The Esoterrorists, a scattered and ill-organised group of occultists and outright mad men, work tirelessly to tear down that barrier between worlds to loose the floodgates to ultimate power. Unfortunately, this very act will open our […]
Great Deeds of Cruelty and Derring-do: A Review of the Fate Freeport Companion
Blacksand, Babylon 5, Ankh Morpork, Mos Eisley… Sometimes, to say ‘Any Port in a Storm‘ is simply an uncomplicated fact. When life or the weather get choppy and you need to find somewhere to shelter or hide out, then a port will likely have all you need. Because all forms of life tend to end […]
Bring on the Eldritch: A Review of AGE Bestiary – Alien Horrors
I have touched upon the notion before that in many industries, but gaming especially, if you don’t have an edition, expansion or supplement available for your game that takes advantage of the post-copyright extradimensional behemoth Cthulhu, then you’re missing out. Whatever your take on the Mythos, you need to get it out there. Not to […]
Avalanche!: A Review of The Mysterious Peaks of Baranthar
Scaling the sheer cliffs of the Baranthar Mountains, falling to your death might prove the least of your worries. The elements and unforgiving crags of the Baranthar peaks may prove as dangerous and uninviting as the struggling and desperate settlers that once called it home. However, the evil that lies at the summit poses a […]
Treasures of the Ninth World: A Review of the Cypher and Artifact & Oddities Collections for Numenera
As a planet, we generate a huge amount of waste and while some gets recycled, a lot ends up in landfill. We also have a fair amount ending up in the sea, most of which (the media would suggest) seems to end up in the nexus of the Pacific gyre. Suffice to say, each year […]
Revenge of the Mad Cat Lady?: A Review of Cat’s Eye, for Doctor Who
With 50 years of stories, Doctor Who has a phenomenal bank of imagery. The Doctor and his companions have been across the universe and back. It occurred to me that it might be quite entertaining to take a few images from a bunch of stories and use them as the catalyst for new role playing […]
Things That Go Fhtägn in the Night: A Review of Cultists Under The Bed, for The Laundry RPG
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed during World War II as a secret unit engaged in combating certain enemies and forces intent on activities esoteric and occult. With Hitler’s Abwehr-SS hell-bent on the use of malevolent and otherworldly weapons to change the course of the war, Britain needed a counter-force. It was vital the […]
Vampires of Sorrow: A Review of The Ravens of Despair, for Doctor Who
Do you remember in The Mind Terrors when the TARDIS landed in ancient Rome and The Doctor narrowly avoided a death in the gladiatorial area with the offer of a Jelly Baby? You know the one where The Doctor and Sarah Jane found Rome besieged and battered by fierce barbarians, because the spirit of city […]
Good grief…. It’s a Stegosaurus!: A Review of Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Sourcebook
The interesting thing about Doctor Who, highlighted in more than one of the documentaries released around the 50th anniversary celebration of the show, is how different each Doctor has been. More so , it’s interesting to note just how much earlier Doctors have influenced the characteristics and actions of those that followed. The Third Doctor, […]
