The game for day 20, if not on day 20, is Kevin Crawford’s Godbound (2016). Aspiring theurges marched on Heaven, intending to overthrow God, but found the throne empty. Then they all died themselves, either in battle against each other or killed by lingering divine forces they couldn’t understand. Splinters of fallen theurges’ spiritual energy […]

As befits the spacetime-bending strangeness lurking under the surface of today’s game, we find day 19’s entry popping up after day 22’s, hopefully to be followed later by days 20 & 21. Oh, & 23. At some point. Anyway. Day 19 brings us to Tales From The Loop, one of a small wave of “kids […]

Today’s entry is a sword & sorcery classic: Legends of Steel, Barbarians of Lemuria Edition. The peanut butter in this cup is Simon Washbourne’s deservedly beloved game engine & the chocolate is Jeff “The Evil DM” Mejia’s world of Erisa. Step one is to choose four careers from the list of 26 (!) & distribute […]

Sharpen that klaive & keep an eye out for Kate Beckinsale; today’s game is the 20th anniversary edition of Werewolf: the Apocalypse. Like every oWoD five by five game it’s gonna be some heavy lifting, but at least I have all those college years of experience to give me some footing, so it should go […]

Today’s entry gets all cloak & dagger with Top Secret: New World Order by Merle M. Rasmussen et al., 2017 via Solarian Games. The PDF I’ve got is the third “printing” from 2022. I remember the original TS fondly but mostly because of a couple of hilarious incidents brought about by the gunfire & damage […]

Day 16 brings us to the first supers game, FASERIP. As you can tell from the name, it’s a retroclone of the TSR Marvel Super Heroes. Step one, assign each ability the campaign rank. By default, that’s World Class (tragically abbreviated WC). Fighting WC [30] Agility WC [30] Strength WC [30] Endurance WC [30] Reason […]

Day 15’s game is the extremely groovy Hypertellurians, “Fantastical Thrills Through The Ultracosm”. (https://mottokrosh.com/machinations/hypertellurians/) It’s a romp through 60s-70s style retro futurism with a lot of lamé gowns, rubbery monster heads & trippy light sequences. There’s something very Virinconium by way of Jodorowsky starring Pam Grier about the whole business, which suits me fine. Let’s […]

Today’s RPG is Wayfarer’s Song, first released in 2003 by Christopher Johnstone. A full decade before Vikings first stampeded across The “History” Channel, this game features a setting based in Saxon-Norse mythology, centered on The Lands of Ragar Nathrok. Will you die like a punk, choking on your own blood, or amass such personal & […]

Well, the failures just keep on coming. Today’s game was supposed to be Hackmaster. In line with the emerging theme, it was only yesterday that I actually took a proper look at the Hacmaster PDF I have, only to discover that the free basic edition only comes with a suite of pregens – great for […]

You know, I wanted to create an Exalted character for today. I really did. I’ve been reading about the game for two decades, had a PDF of the second edition sitting in my DriveThru library for years. It seemed like time. Ah, time. Along about my fourth or fifth hour of trying to figure out […]