Sponsored content! Ever since The Shadows of Luclin expansion was released for EverQuest, I’ve been fascinated by lunar adventures. Being the casual player I am, I have never reached Luclin, but I did incorporate the idea into my Terminus a…
Sponsored content! Ever since The Shadows of Luclin expansion was released for EverQuest, I’ve been fascinated by lunar adventures. Being the casual player I am, I have never reached Luclin, but I did incorporate the idea into my Terminus a…
Sponsored content! By the end of last year, I realized that I hadn’t been reading much fiction lately, so I ordered a bunch of sword & sorcery and science fiction novels that will probably end up collecting dust once I lose momentum. While
I expected Chaosium to forget about Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine after releasing it under the ORC-license, leaving its future entirely in the community’s hands. Fortunately, I was wrong. While there isn’t a deluge of new product…
This year’s Cauldron Con was hit by the winds of change. Not only did the event move from the beautiful but cold Schloss Hohenroda to the cozy and rustic Hofraithe Park in Rosenthal, but it was also only three days long instead of four. Wha…
HackMaster 5e is the greatest game ever developed by humankind. It says so in the introduction of the Player’s Handbook, and they are goddamn right. Ironically, the game started out as a joke: it was a parody of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
June starts strong with Kickstarter campaigns. Right on the coattails of OSRIC comes another big and important OSR project. Robert Conley has proven with his past works that he knows a thing or two about sandboxing, and now he is gathering
It’s refreshing to finally play a game I’m invested in instead of running it. Yesterday, one of my friends ran a session of Dragonbane in Drakborgen. Dragonbane is the latest edition of Sweden’s national fantasy RPG, Drakar och Demoner1. Dr…
Mark your calendars for the 6th of May; that is the day when the Backerkit campaign for the new edition of OSRIC starts. In case you’ve been living under a rock, OSRIC is a damn fine retroclone of AD&D1e and also one of the founding fathers…