Way back when, on Davae Breon Jaxon’s RPG With DBJ YouTube channel, there was a series of episodes discussing classic D&D monsters. For some reason when the unicorn’s turn came up I also had sorcerers on the brain. The result of that was the concept of a sorcerer who cast clerical spells, what with the […]
A while back Matthew Dawkins had a giveaway on his YouTube channel to mark the release of some “They Came From …” books. To show off how adaptable the system is, the contest was to create a brand new set of character archetypes & cinematic abilities for a genre that hadn’t already been covered. This […]
Unnoticed behind an abandoned auto body shop, a small patch of green slime crept across the concrete, soaking up spills of transmission lubricant & motor oil to no ill effect. Radiator coolant, though … that turned out to be a superfood for the slime, which promptly quadrupled in size & has kept on spreading. You […]
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 […]
Rummaging In The Junk Drawer 