The soundtrack makes a lateral shift from DragonForce to Blue Öyster Cult today as we delve into Chaosium’s Stormbringer. If you didn’t already know what the deal with Stormbringer, Elric et al. was you probably wouldn’t be reading this, so let’s just jump straight into chargen. Stormbringer is based on what has come to be […]
Next in line on the shelf, cue up your DragonForce Pandora station because we’re headed for the World of Synnibarr, second edition. For the few out there unfamiliar with the legend, World of Synnibar is a multi-genre-ish RPG roughly contemporary with Rifts. In Synnibar, various fantasy, sci-fi & comic book martial arts heroes live on […]
Jumping backward & forward today to a simpler past & future, the next game in line on the shelf is Mazes & Minotaurs (M&M). In 2002 Paul “Mithras” Elliott wrote a humorous alternate history of gaming in which he imagined that the very first RPG was inspired by Ray Harryhausen sword & sandal Greek adventures […]
I’m taking a different approach to this year’s character creation challenge. When I first read about the challenge I did a quick count of the games on my shelves, thinking I wouldn’t have enough to fill 31 days. Turns out I had underestimated by a factor of two: I’ve got no fewer than 74 games […]
It’s said that to kill a unicorn is one of the gravest sins one can commit. The price in Corruption a deed so foul exacts is high enough to kill some mortals on the spot. There is worse still. There is more than one who would attempt it, whether in the service of the Exarchs […]
Along with the better known Decanters of Endless Water & Daily Bread Pouches (which produce enough fruit bread to keep four people fed for a day), you’ll occasionally find larger serving boards that can conjure a whole feast. Unfortunately what you’ve stumbled across may also turn out to be a Groaning Board. It isn’t the […]
Or at least that’s what the Synod of Necromancers insists. Those who fail to do their duty to further the glorious struggle to extend the boundaries of the Bone Republic to the farthest corners of the world – even if that was because they were unfit for military service in life – clearly don’t deserve […]
Here’s one of the larger collections of Zdzisław Beksiński images I’ve seen yet: https://designyoutrust.com/2017/05/zdzislaw-beksinski-terrifying-visions-of-hell-by-murdered-polish-painter/?fbclid=IwAR3PoXQ_K4yTdquYTZrXbr7dcopVrBUzd4sSg0k7aUMfVNZzdhtAr2UvCfw
You were given to understand it would be someone entirely different who came to collect the souls of the fallen from the battlefield. Illo by “Vergvoktre”, who- or whatever that is. Cover of the album “Granting Death” by Krahnholm.
Hilltop fortress for a post-apocalyptic warlord
Rummaging In The Junk Drawer 