What exactly is the Old School Revival? Roleplaying games came into being during the mid-1970’s. While ideas and practices of Roleplaying existed some years before, It can truly be said that Gygax, Arneson, Barker, and others truly fleshed out the first formalized rules. Since that halcyon time, an explosion of games has spanned the test of time. Everything from Runequest, …
Cubicle 7’s Adventures in Middle Earth not the “Tolkien” game you might be expecting! Part 2
The review was done using the writers personally owned copies of the product. This is part 2 of a 2 part review focusing on Adventures in Middle Earth by Cubicle 7. If you missed the previous portion of the review you can read it here. Adventures in Middle Earth part 2: The Player’s Guide Welcome back! Let’s pick up where we …
Cubicle 7’s Adventures in Middle Earth not the “Tolkien” game you might be expecting! Part 1
The review was done using the writers personally owned copies of the product. Adventures in Middle Earth part 1: The Player’s Guide It is not surprise to most of us that The Lord of the Rings has long been a benchmark of fantasy literature. Tolkien was as close as any of us could get to a mainstream fantasy back in the …
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Eric Bloat’s Zombie Hack RPG
Sometimes, a little At is all you need. Back in the 80s, I ran the first zombie horror game I’d ever attempted. The genre wasn’t omnipresent at the time, the Romero films were mostly what we had available. I used the Chill RPG from Pacesetter as my base rules. We had fun. I never once imagined a day when there …
Avremier From Here: A Series of Gems for a White Box
http://drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/12971/Mothshade-Concepts David A. Hill presents new worlds to conquer for fans of the original White Box edition of the game. Being a review of the first in David A. Hills “Avremier” series of supplements for Original Fantasy RPG. The creation of fantasy worlds is a tradition among roleplaying enthusiasts as old as the hobby itself. Gygax, Arneson, Bledsaw, and …
Handling the Table Personality: Gamemastering at cons requires flexibility!
What another table personality article? Hello, again folks, I know it has been a bit since I have written with the electronic quill. There are few reasons for this. I have been back and forth at the VA (Veteran’s Hospital here in the USA) with various health issues. I have also been very busy on the side with working on …
Welcome to the Abandoned Land: The Compleat Arduin and the legacy of Dave Hargrave
The jump to Arduin took it out of me. I arrived in an alley of the city of Talismonde shaking from the effort. Arduin is one of the most distant of the planes of imagination, and there is no easy road to take there. Even the talismans of passage–never exactly common–have become coveted, prized, nigh-impossible to come by. Fog …
Learning to Hack with Hackmaster Ted
Ghengis Con 41 Hackmaster playthrough! I recently had the pleasure of attending Genghis Con 41, held in lovely Colorado every year on the third weekend of the month of February. I will be writing up a short review of the convention, but there was one piece due to the previous Hackmaster articles that I felt deserved to be the subject …
Modern Gamer: Kickstarters and gaming, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Kickstarter, the good, the bad and the ugly? I think it is no surprise these days that Kickstarter is a word we see a lot in our industry. It has become the go-to for funding for both small start-up companies and bigger more established companies. With both fish swimming in the same waters, there has been a lot of discussion …