So. Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear – to be more specific 1999. Chris Pramas produced a jewel of a D&D adaptation in the days just barely before the appearance of the OGL 1.0 (pours a 40 of mead on the cobbles). It was Dragonfist, a wuxia action game with a […]

This was supposed to be the character for yesterday, January 8. But as you’ll soon see, the sheer tangle of chargen rules I had to fight through kept this going so long I only finished this morning. The game for day eight is Dog Town, an RPG of gritty street-level crime based on 1970s thrillers […]

Dragon Magazine issue #47 included, among the usual assortment of new magic items & material for handling unusual edge cases – effects of being on an Elemental Plane on magic items, searching for stuff on the Astral Plane – a very short but complete roleplaying game by none other than Dave “Zeb” Cook. It was […]

Made it six days in before the plan went sideways, which may be a new personal best. I had intended this to be All Flesh Must Be Eaten day. Then I looked at the PDF & discovered I had nabbed a quickstart with a bunch of pregens in it, not the actual character creation rules. […]

Howdy pardners. The GDi games are headed for the last roundup today, as we crack open Coyote Trail. No surprises, it’s the Western incarnation of the system. The character creation system is virtually identical to the other games. One fairly delightful bit of customization, though, is the damage track. In addition to levels of Fatigue […]

That’s a wrap for the January Character Creation Challenge. First off, hats off to TardisCaptain for kicking off the challenge & for soldiering through some pretty gnarly chargen of his own. This has been a lot of fun, & it’s interesting to see how other participants have approached it. For my own quick reference, here […]

The final day of the January character creation challenge & we wrap it up with the okay-ish Terran Trade Authority RPG from Morrigan Press. Powered by the Omni system, a generified version of Talislanta’s core mechanic, the game is based on those classic Stuart Cowley picture books so many of us drooled over as pre-teens. […]

The future is grimdark & not just figuratively in today’s game, Fading Suns. Imagine a twist cone of Stargate & Dune & you won’t be far off. It’s the close of the 50th Century & humanity has spread across many systems, founded & lost two Galactic Republics, encountered many alien life forms – some of […]

Today’s game sets the speed record so far. It’s the 2014 edition of Cat, & I was done chargen before I finished my oatmeal this morning. All of the characters in Cat are house cats who protect their humans from supernatural threats that only animals can perceive. Most often these are malevolent spirits called boggins. […]

Affutez vos lames, camarades. Today’s game is another mostly historical one, 2010’s All For One: Régime Diabolique. I say mostly historical because although the PCs are all musketeers in the service of Louis XIII, there are worse threats than just Richelieu out there, including witches, devil worshippers, werewolves, demons, vampires, & maybe the Beast of […]