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(Header image from Zachary Kadolph on Unsplash) “What games are good for one-shots?” is a very common refrain in my circles, and I love to hear it. It means people are branching out, trying new things. It’s also a difficult question to make a generic response to. Often it is dependent on table...
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(Header image from Ben Griffiths on Unsplash) The Recommendation I think this is a must-own game. This gem is concise enough that you can probably read the base rules in less time than it will take to read this review, so you may as well go buy it, read it, play it, then come back and see if...
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(Header image by Alexandr Rusnac on Unsplash) Everything Everywhere All At Once is my favorite film. The clash of such an explosive, absurd multiverse epic colliding with the commonplace struggle of an immigrant family trying to file their taxes is not an obvious combination. I think it works...
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“The conversation that you have with the other players and with the rules create a story that couldn’t have existed in your head alone.”– Avery Alder, Monsterhearts 2 I think the reason many of us cling to dice in RPGs is so we can ensure the story is fluid, that there are twist and turns...
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(Header art is a Legend of Zelda illustration for Nintendo Power from Katsuya Terada) HEROISM. Spencer Campbell has done something very special with WYRM. During my extended stay in the OSR-sphere I have truly enjoyed being a dirty little guy going into a hole in the ground to get...
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Look. Like many of you, my brain has problems. And I can never, ever, ever say the name of this absolute banger of a game from Rowan, Rook and Decard without the supergroup also named Royal Blood popping into my head. I think it’s a feature not a bug, but the constant loop is important to how I am...
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(Photo by Avi Werde on Unsplash) Before we start, I want to note that Delta Green inherently is a game where you engage as armed operatives of the United States government. While I do not think the game explicitly paints these agents as heroes, disturbingly I would not be surprised to learn...
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(Photo by Anita Jankovic on Unsplash) Hello and welcome one and all to the 2026 Milk Awards: Known far and wide like the rising tide, here to there like the county fair, from your basement to your game store, you’ve heard it all before. You know it, you love it: The Milk Awards! It is our...
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(Header image by Daisy D on Unsplash) Gus the Dragon is a simple GMless game for up to three players written by an up-and-coming designer I often have the pleasure of collaborating with. The mechanics are simple: Together, choose a name and a character, always in the form [Name] the...
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(Header image is a trophy duck from this website) I have been dreading this review. Trophy The design is just so clean. You play treasure hunters cutting your way through a forest that will smother you. Anything risky is handled by a dice pool with the mixed successes we have come to know...
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When I set out to run a game based on Battlestar Galactica, Classic Traveller was my first place to go to find a system that I could use to enable the setting. I’d never run CT, only dreamed about it back in 1978 as I read through the Little Black Books. With no experience, I turned to the...
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The stalwart Fleet Scouts cautiously approached the nervous human woman. She was dressed in homespun materials – leather-like, beaded and knotted. They had lured her out from hiding by singing the same melody she had been singing, as well as melodies from old Colonial nursery songs. She stepped...