A Character a Day: Day 24

The world has been saved but things still aren’t looking too good for Tokyo in today’s game, the 1999 Guardians of Order RPG Demon City Shinjuku, based on the anime of the same name. Just over a decade ago a powerful evil sorcerer named Levih Rah put in motion a plan to open a gateway […]

A Character a Day: Day 20

The apocalypse goes on with a Gallic shrug in today’s game, Wasteland: les terres gâchées. It’s a French RPG, so I’ll give the original terms from the text along with my translations for them. A thousand years ago (stop me if you’ve heard this one before), civilization came to a crashing end. Battles for dominion […]

A Character a Day: Day 19

The world continues to have ended in 1998’s Tribe 8. A thousand years ago, the world came to an end. It may have been on its last legs already but the arrival of the Z’bri tipped it over the edge. Are they aliens? Demons? Monsters from another dimension? To this day no one knows, but […]

An Alpine Bard

That smile looks like he’s working on a plan to fiddle his way into yonder castle. From the source: A Gheg Albanian man from Malësia plays a Lahuta (Gusle) Traditional instruments of the area often accompany Albanian folksinging and folk dancing. The most common is the flute, but bagpipes and drums are also heard at […]