‘Salem’s Lot Author: Stephen King Page Count: 672 Available Formats: Print / eBook / Audio Book But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way…
Author: Daniel Stack
Reaching The Apex – Old-School Essentials Advanced Edition
Old-School Essentials Advanced Edition Author: Gavin Norman Publisher: Necrotic Gnome Page Count: 2 books, 250 pages each Available Formats: PDF & Print Player’s Tome & Referee’s Tomes PDF (DTRPG) – $15 / $15 Print & Print/PDF Combo – $40 / $40 The Old School Renaissance (OSR) has been around for around 15 years. Broadly speaking,…
Could it be… Satan?
In the fourth season of Stranger Things, we witness the 1980s “Satanic Panic”—an actual phenomenon I remember, though I was thankfully not much affected by it. The Satanic Panic was a fairly broad phenomenon, much of it originating from a rash of false allegations against daycare centers that were supposedly committing “satanic ritual abuse.” There…
Fish or Cut Bait?
What is it that makes an RPG campaign last? When is it time to decide the current campaign isn’t working and it’s time to try something new? I’ve noticed that the groups I game with tend to go through different stages. Sometimes we’ll have a lot of consistency with games lasting dozens of sessions. Our current…
Looking Back at FASA’s Star Trek
In the 1980s and early 1990s, I clocked in many hours playing FASA’s Star Trek RPG. I remember pouring over FASA catalogs, giving money to my parents to write me checks for mail-order Star Trek products, and then waiting six to eight weeks for delivery. This article provides an overview of FASA’s Star Trek RPG….
Stardate 1978: A Look at the First Star Trek RPG
Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier Author: Michael J. Scott Publisher: Heritage Models Available Formats: Very out of print Modiphius currently has the license to Star Trek RPGs. They’ve done quite a bit with it, including many sourcebooks, adventures, and a few versions of the core rules (main core rules, Klingon version, original series-focused)….
Unflappable! – DuckQuest: Quack Starter Edition
DuckQuest: Quack Starter Edition Author: Darcy Perry Publisher: Star Hat Miniatures Page Count: 68 Available Formats: PDF PDF (DTRPG) – $20 NZD So… Y’know how RuneQuest sometimes gets some raised eyebrows for the inclusion of anthropomorphic ducks? And some people deemphasize that aspect of RuneQuest? Not the authors of DuckQuest. They clearly saw those ducks,…
And in the darkness bind them… The One Ring RPG
The One Ring Core Rules 2nd Edition Author: Francesco Nepitello, et al. Publisher: Free League Publishing Page Count: 248 Available Formats: PDF & Print PDF (DTRPG) – $24.95 Print – 478.00 kr (approx. $50.00) All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost A Long-Expected Party JRR Tolkien’s world of…
Revisiting a Classic: The Lord of the Rings
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” — The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by…
Medium Things in Little Packages – A Review of Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition
Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition Authors: Ray Nolan, Phil Morris Publisher: Anti-Paladin Games Page Count: 64 Available Formats: PDF & Print PDF (DTRPG) – Free Print on Demand/PDF Combo – $8.00 A month or two ago, I was going through some of my older gaming stuff and came across a printed copy of the Mini…
Rolling Boxcars 