Extolling the Virtues of Eliminated Bloggie Finalists

We hear lots of talk about how tabletop intersects with arts like video games, theater and even film. Yet surprisingly sparse is discussion ...

Spire and Babel: The Monstrosity of Empire, the Necessity of Violence

This is the final post in the Player Advice Collection series. You can learn more about my Dragon Magazine reading project here. Below...

Come Sail Away Vampire Cruise by Amanda lee Franck is a 40-page zine containing a site-based location (the Sea Star cruise ship) for a horr...

Rod, Reel, & Fist is a system-forward fishing simulation RPG by Richard Kelly that uses the heightened aesthetics of anime to reign in its absurd

Ultimately [UVG2E], like UVG1E, are books [sic] that long to be cut to pieces, chopped & screwed and re-arranged and re-organized and rep...

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

We’re deep into a campaign of Handiwork Games’ second edition of a|state here with no signs of stopping. I was just about to leave Forged in the Dark games behind but a|state convinced me to stick around awhile long. Let’s dig into how a|state redeemed FitD for me. a|state is available in PDF from DriveThruRPG… Continue reading Deep Dive: A|STATE →

Recently, the RPG social media sphere reheated one of the classic controversies du jour: Should RPG critics write a review of an RPG product...

Do you love the thrill of exploring dark, winding corridors, fighting off dangerous monsters, and discovering hidden treasures? Odds are you...

The Cover of Break. Art and layout by Grey Wizard. This is a bit of an unusual post, Gentle Reader. I don't typically set out to review TTRPG game syste...

My OSR Blog about fantasy world building and rules analysis for D&D. Also home of the B/X inspired 5e-clone "Into the Unknown."

A blog about table-top role-playing games after a break of two decades.

A Scathingly Positive Review Jim Henson's Labyrinth: the Adventure Game is a self-contained system and adventure adapted from the 1986 fil...

Hull Breach: Volume 01 ( available here ) is a 3 rd party companion for Mothership , the ttrpg of space horror in the tradition of Alien an...

is Négritude too on the nose? - Papa Ibra Tall's La semeuse d’étoiles "Added to this is the question of whether Africa serves merely as a mi...

Histories of D&D and TSR have become thick on the ground. Representing the gold standard – in terms of completeness, standard of scholarship, and avoiding a slide into hagiography –…

I have a hypothesis: Wizards of the Coast's 5E adventures are for fucking weenies. I know, it's a tall claim to make. Let's prove this throu...

The Gardens of Ynn and The Stygian Library are a pair of depthcrawl mini-campaigns by Emmy “Cavegirl” Allen. It would probably be more accurate to describe them as THE depthcrawl mini-campaigns,

There are several things that you need to know about Kelvin Green. First, he is entirely wrong about which version of Invasion of the Body S...

A small story When I was 12, I was introduced to RPGs. I said "Oh I will make one for Lord of the Rings." I went home and wrote it in a note...

This article is a review of the Mothership RPG, a review of Desert Moon of Karth, and a report on our 8-hour bachelor party adventure. Buckle up, space cowboy!

Where the Wheat Grows Tall A review by Yochai Gal The Introduction Where the Wheat Grows Tall is an old-school adventure for low-level chara...

Devoted to speculative fiction on the page, the screen and the tabletop. Also featured: the OSR and its offshoots, history, literature, architecture.

A Book of Beasts Review by WFS This bestiary is a supplement for a supplement. In 2015, Jason Lutes wrote “ The Perilous Wilds ”, a supple...

Preface Wolves Upon the Coast is a “grand campaign” written by Luke Gearing—of Gradient Descent , Fever Swamp, Acid Death Fantasy , and ma...

Some might say that the unique setting proves detriment to a dungeons utility as a generic or learning dungeon. This might be the case, howe...

One of the things at which the OSR excels is categorization and the creation of jargon to encapsulate these new categories. Though perhaps i...