The odds of me finishing this thing are nil at this point, but I might as well keep churning out as many as I can until the end of the month. Won’t be 30 characters, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Today we’re going full loincloth & six-legged wolverine with Savage Worlds Mars, by […]

Today brings us to Sufficiently Advanced, Second Edition version 1.1.1 (March 20, 2018) by Colin Fredericks. The Transhumanest of Transhuman RPGs, the heroes of Sufficiently Advanced are living in a future so distant that they’re living Clarke’s maxim every day. Matter gets manipulated on the atomic scale, wormholes allow causality-violating travel, endless energy is free […]

Today we don’t so much go over the edge as linger at it. Liminal Horror, by Goblin Archives (2023), is a game of the little people finding themselves at the interface between the world as we know it & the incomprehensible truth of the beyond. The liminal in this case doesn’t refer to the situations […]

Next up in my DriveThru library – which for whatever reason goes berserk when I try to page through it from oldest to newest, so my plan for a FIFO walkthrough has also gone out the window – is Piledrivers & Powerslams (2007), by Joe J. Prince. The PCs in this game are, of course, […]

Next up in my DriveThru library: BASH! (Basic Action Super Heroes!), from 2005. It’s a super simple three-stat game that nevertheless covers all the bases of an old fashioned spandex beat-em-up. To begin with, distribute seven points among three stats, no more than five in any one stat. We’re keeping it random so we roll the […]

So. I went into this year with no plan, no outline, & frankly no ideas. But what I do now realize is that I do have one thing: an enormous back catalog of DriveThruRPG & Bundle of Holding stuff I haven’t looked at since I added it to my library, either because it was a […]

I’m starting out four days late, so to make up for it here’s what a single player starts out with in a game that recommends four starting PCs (at least!) for each player: Mutant Crawl Classics. This 2018 game takes the basic Dungeon Crawl Classics engine & slaps a few spray-painted plastic panels over the […]

Sun has finally set on the 2023 Character Creation Challenge, later for some of us than others. As always, many thanks to TardisCaptain for organizing the challenge & leading the way with his own set of contenders. My takeaway from this year has been to lean more heavily on games with more random, or at […]

The challenge comes to a fittingly ridiculous end with Star Wreck: The Pirkinning by Mike Pohjola (2006). It’s a tie-in to the Star Wreck series of films – well, web vids to be precise – created by a small handful of friends & volunteers in a Helsinki apartment. Rather than bold standard bearers for the […]

January is well in the past, but we keep on trucking with the last two entries. Character 30 is giving us some serious side eye. Possibly also giving us a literal eye, right out of somebody’s head. That’s ‘cause the game for today is Scorn, by Raphael Chandler (10th anniversary edition, 2012). This is a […]