Jackals is a bronze age fantasy, and it’s a gritty high fantasy at that. It’s sorcery and sandals in the style of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it gets the thumbs up from this ancient one.
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Under pressure sci-fi excellence: A review of Last Fleet
Last Fleet is an excellent game, truly it’s great. I mean, as a player, you may love to hate Fox, but the game is still great.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #103
In this week’s article, you’ll find five, the usual number, of episodic titles currently available to stream in the UK and most places, and get spoiler-free mini-reviews.
Rose Tyler returns: A review of Doctor Who Vol 1 – Alternating Current
Previously in the Doctor Who comic book line, the Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors met.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #102
Short anime reviews for Castlevania, To Your Eternity, “So I’m a Spider, So What?”, No Guns Life and Attack on Titan.
Mech-dino horrors and Cthulhu-spawn (mostly): A review of Nightmares 1
Nightmares 1 is a collection of monsters for 5e by Cthulhu-famous Petersen Games. It gets a thumb up from this reviewer.
The refreshing touch of change and death: A review of The Elephant and Macaw Banner
I learned more about Brazilian mythology and related stories from this RPG than I had read in years.
A Lugubrious Lullaby is an RPG about innocence lost
A Lugubrious Lullaby prints onto a single sheet of paper, and when folded up, becomes a zine RPG about innocence lost.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #101
Short anime reviews for Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Yasuke, Tokyo Revengers, 86 Eighty-Six and Magatsu Wahrheit.
How to hook your friends: A review of the Soulbound Starter Set
Soulbound is the tabletop roleplaying game from Cubicle 7 set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar world.
