Ah, horror roleplaying! One could argue that horror is second only to fantasy in the roleplaying world. And one could also argue that the vast majority of that roleplaying has revolved around the works of a certain Mr. Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Mine certainly has! I heard the Call of Cthulhu early and I heard it well. But I was also …
Jack O’Lantern Tears
Halloween. And all day I spent with the dead. I brought them into my mind one by one, in the order of their passing, from the earliest childhood days forward. I marched them past single file in my mind’s eye and tried hard to honor them by seeing them clearly. Some I saw with more clarity than others, and my …
Rule Brittania! A review of Simon Todd’s Tantalus: an Introduction to The Cauldron
British fantasy gamers have always been a bit different than we Americans. White Dwarf had a different feel to it than The Dragon, and the Fiend Folio was clearly not a sequel to the Monster Manual. There is a different aesthetic at work, influences that shine through that American gamers and designers tend to either dismiss or apply in a very …
Konflikt 47 Resurgence: Osprey Games Weird War 2 Continues
Fans of Osprey Games Konflikt 47 have some cause for celebration. Resurgence arrives with new and revised rules, along with unit lists for both . To be clear, Resurgence is not a stand-alone game. This is an expansion. Konflikt 47 is a skirmish game built on a science-fantasy premise in which atomic bomb testing has opened dimensional rifts from which both …