Kickstart Your Weekend: Valnwall UPDATE
I want to update you all on a Kickstarter I shared last week. Guidebook to the Duchy of Valnwall is set in the same Duchy as the Guidebook to the City of Dolmvay....
View ArticleFriday Night Videos: Supers Edition
Welcome back to Friday Night Videos! Supers Edition. I have been thinking a lot about supers this last week or so. I have a big "deep dive" I want to do this summer with supers and of course the...
View ArticleZatannurday: Scarlet Witch Edition
So I guess there is some Marvel movie out this weekend. All I know is it isn't the Justice League! All snark aside, I was never a big Avengers fan. To me they spent as much time fighting each other...
View ArticleMay the Fourth be With You
It's "Star Wars day". I suppose you will be seeing this in a lot of places today, but I also want to increase the volume on this. James Spahn has released his old-school Space Opera epic, White Star....
View ArticleA to Z Challenge 2015 Reflections Post
I survived another A to Z blogging challenge. I was so unprepared this year. I know what vampire I was going to talk about each day, but often not much more than that. By the numbers Vampires are much...
View ArticleA to Z of Vampires: White Star SPECIAL Space Vampire
Heck with it. Here is a special vampire for today. To celebrate the release of +James Spahn's "White Star" here is a blast from the past, the Space Vampire of the 25th Century. The Vorvon! Also...
View ArticleNew D&D from WotC
One of the biggest problems of hanging in mostly old-school areas is people still seem to want to bitch and complain about Wizards of the Coast. I don't get that. It's ok not to like them. It's ok not...
View ArticleWhite Star: Sisters of the Aquarian Order
White Star from BRG and +James Spahn is the new hot game in the OSR crowd right now, and with good reason. It is based on Swords & Wizardry (so it is simple to learn and play) and flexible. So...
View ArticleReview: White Star by James Spahn
Unless you are living in an OSR-free zone you may have missed the big release this week of "White Star" from Barrel Rider Games and +James Spahn. BRG had made a name for itself publishing classes for...
View ArticleReview: Starships & Spacemen 2e by Goblinoid Games
I have been in a real Sci-Fi mood of late. Partly due to the new Star Wars film coming out, partly due to the release of the revised d6 Star Wars game out there on social media, but mostly due to the...
View ArticleStarships & Spacemen: Sisters of the Aquarian Order
Not a full post, but some minor tweaks to my Sisters of the Aquarian Order. This time for Starships & Spacemen. This might be a little too powerful for the Starships & Spacemen. But I will give...
View ArticleKickstart Your Weekend: The Haunting of Oakcrest Manor
"No one is actually sure when the troubles at Oakcrest Manor began. What is known that many years ago Lord Borgric and his wife Rebecca retired from a life of adventuring to settle down in the quite...
View ArticleFriday Night Videos: Space Age Love Songs
Welcome back to Friday Night Videos! Sci-Fi Edition. All week I have talking about Sci-Fi games and sci-fi themes. All of this has sent me back to the late 70s / early 80s when I was hard core into...
View ArticleZatannurday: Good-bye Constantine
Well. The news is out. Constantine has been officially canceled. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/08/constantine-officially-canceled-nbc I know there is always the hope that SyFy might pick it up....
View ArticleReview: Stars Without Number
Continuing my deep dive into the OSR-based SciFi games we naturally next come to Stars Without Number. This gem was released in 2011 and was written by +Kevin Crawford and Sine Nomine Publishing....
View ArticleMonster Monday! Yog, The Monster from Space!
It was my pleasure to meet Natasha Duncan-Drake and her sister Sophie Duncan in last years A to Z Challenge. They both posted a lot of great stuff and plenty that can be used in any game. Well Natasha...
View ArticleReview: Machinations of the Space Princess
Continuing my reviews of OSR Sci-Fi games. Next up is Postmortem Studios' Machinations of the Space Princess. Continuing also with the comparisons. If White Star is Star Wars, Spacemen &...
View ArticleReview: Strange Stars
Every so often you come across a product that is so different than the rest it is hard to know what to do with it. +trey causey's Strange Stars is not exactly that. Strange Stars is a product so...
View ArticleNot a bird. Not a plane.
I am inordinately fond of Supergirl. This looks so awesome. And I am going on record that Calista Flockhart is going rock as Cat. Marvel may have the theaters, but DC owns TV.
View ArticleReview: Metamorphosis Alpha, 1st Edition
MORBIUS: Back. To. The. Beginning! - Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius. There is a game going all the way back to the dawn of time, or at least the dawn of the roleplaying age, that has fascinated me....
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