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 […]

A little background just for the hell of it: I first came in contact with Ewen Cluney’s work circa 1999 or so. I was hunting for a bootleg of White Wolf’s Street Fighter RPG to mash up with Vampire: The Masquerade for a game tourney one-off. (The island fighting tourney was being run by a […]