Guest Writer: Christopher Bishop Red Dragon Inn has been a popular title for quite a while. Even late comers to the product line such as myself find instant value in its clever, satirical homages to various character types played at the table. Battle for Greyport however, while still having a little tongue in cheek involved, is a slightly more serious game. …
Guest Review: Grimtooth’s Museum Of Death
Guest Writer: Eric Bloat A word about Goodman Games, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Funnels & Grimtooth The good folks at the California based gaming company, Goodman Games, like their Fantasy RPGs the same as they like their Heavy Metal music, volume cranked to 11 and thumping like a ballpeen hammer to the head. With their flagship game, Dungeon Crawl Classics …
Guest Review: Against the Giants Then and Now
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Guest Writer: Christopher Bishop The OSR movement has given many things back to me. It has reopened my eyes to the fact that sometimes simple is better. Prior to going back to my roots I almost lost my connection with my hobby as it began to feel more and more like Accounting and Dragons and less like the grand ole …
Guest Retro Review: White Dwarf #7
Guest Writer: Kevin Birge In The Shadow of the Dragon His smile was so corpulent I felt like I was gaining weight just looking at it. Mike. What kind of name for a thief is that? Softfoot, maybe. Or Blackknife. No sir. Mike it was, and this thief had been so successful that he had amassed riches beyond the dreams …
Born in fire: An interview with Alex Karaczun, CEO & President of Fire Born Games
Guest Writer: Christopher Bishop CB: Tell us your origin story in gaming. What brought you to the table, what have you enjoyed the most in roleplaying and what keeps you there today? AK: When I was in middle school, I think it was 7th grade, my friend Michael got a copy of the 1977 Holmes Basic Edition of Dungeons & …
Guest Review: Grimtooth’s Traps Bazaar
Guest Writer: Nick Monitto I came to find the “Dungeons & Dragons” game when both it and I were quite young, still in the single digits of age. Any time that I was out for a shopping trip, I hoped we might find our way to the wondrous Duane’s Toyland or the Waldenbooks shops that inhabited all of our malls. …
Guest Review: Arduin Dungeon #1 Caliban
Guest Writer: Nick Monitto In the early years of the “Dungeons & Dragons” game, the TSR Company was growing forth from small humble roots. Out of the living room and basement of Gary Gygax’s own home, the rule books and adventures were created, assembled, and sent into the hands of eager gamers. But dominant as they were starting to become, …
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go: A Review of Paranoia by Mongoose Games
Guest Writer: Kevin Birge The Jitterbug! (Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.) The Jitterbug! (Clap.Clap.Clap.Clap.) And as the long forgotten pop earworm bites into the brain of the sleeping clone, the clone thinks “It’s cold. I’m cold. It’s cold.” And sits up, awake, and his Cerebral Coretech is flashing 12:00. His breath fills the room with vapor, a new and terrifying thing. Is the smoke toxic? …
Translating the inner Barbarian: An Interview with Vincent Darlage
Guest Writer: Christopher Bishop I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Vincent Darlage in June of 2017. We sat down and played a few rounds of the Conan Monolith game, and he was kind of enough to show me around his library, which is an impressive array of Robert E. Howard and other authors various collected volumes. His encyclopedic knowledge …