New Releases Tuesday: The Witch for Swords & Wizardry Continual Light
I have been keeping this one under wraps for now, but it's Halloween and it's the time for witches.The Witch for Swords & Wizardry Continual LightCover art by the wonderful Marlena Mozgawa, Lenamo...
View ArticleThis Old Dragon: Issue #130
Not moving too far ahead from last week but that is cool. We are coming up on an issue that I remember back when it was new but never owned till recently. So without further ado lets go back to...
View ArticleKickstart Your Weekend: Demons!
I am a huge Castles & Crusades fan. Any chance I get to play is a good one. So when they have a Kickstarter I pay attention.Castles & Crusades Tome of the...
View ArticleGog and Magog!
A while back I presented stats for two Balor that I use in my games, Gog and Magog.I always wanted to get minis for them, I always thought it would be fun to have them both and have them encountered by...
View ArticleStranger Things: Zoomer Archetype for D&D 5
"See. Zoomer."- Maxine "Mad Max" MayfieldStranger Things 2 is out and many of you may have binge watched it all by now. We just finished this past weekend and thought it was just as good as season 1....
View ArticleProduction Will Be Down
Posting will be down in November here at the Other Side.Normally November is a lighter month, but it will be even lighter than normal.I have about four major projects due to four different publishers...
View ArticleThis Old Dragon: Issue #70
Let's go all the way back to the winter of 1983. I was in 8th grade and getting excited about the new Return of the Jedi movie coming up. Toto had knocked out Men At Work for a week with "Africa". In...
View ArticleTharizdûn Link Round-up
Doing some more Tharizdûn related research.I figure I can put this links in a document somewhere OR I could post them here for others to take advantage of and maybe even give some feedback.From the...
View ArticleSave Versus All Wands: Witches in Early D&D
+Oakes Spalding has a great post over on his blog about Witches.Save Versus All Wands: Witches in Early D&DIt is worth checking out and is the kind of analysis I do on my own but should really post...
View ArticleThis Old Dragon: Issue #49
Bit of a cheat today. I went out to my FLGS and picked this one up just so I could review it today! I wanted to have a look at the Alchemist class. I was having a conversation online with a former...
View ArticleSkylla: Quest of the Ancients
I am posting this as part of the RPG Blog Carnival for November: The Past Revisited hosted by Campaign Mastery. This is a sequel to all my Skylla posts and my Quest of the Ancients posts.Quest of the...
View ArticleWeekend Gaming: The Second Campaign
Got some great gaming in on the weekend.Moved forward more with the Second Campaign.But it turns out the characters are only 3rd level, and at the start of 3rd really. So not really ready for the...
View ArticleMighty Protectors for Sweeps Week
I have been on vacation all week. So not a lot of posting. None tomorrow or Friday either.Though I have not been idle. Been spending a lot of time with +Jeff Dee and Jack Herman's Magnum Opus "Mighty...
View ArticleReview: Mighty Protectors
"We believe in heroes because, ultimately, we believe in ourselves."- Jack "King" KirbyI am spending some quality time with +Jeff Dee and Jack Herman's Supers RPG Mighty Protectors, aka Villains &...
View ArticleMighty Protectors: We Can Be Heroes
There are two central features of Villains & Vigilantes and Mighty Protectors that I have always enjoyed. First, the conceit that you play yourself with superpowers in the game. And secondly, that...
View ArticlePWWO: Mighty Protectors
Time again for another edition of "Plays Well With Others"!Mighty Protectors is a new game, but it has a long history and some solid Old-School DNA. Because of this, there is a lot of ways to tinker...
View ArticleThis Old Dragon Issue #111
It's the summer of 1986. My regular DM has graduated from High School and is getting ready to go to the Air Force. We are gearing up for an epic world-changing round of adventures we call the Dragon...
View ArticleVictorious Villains & Vigilantes: Maxima
Last year I did a deep exploration of the Victorious RPG. It is a really, really fun supers game set in the Victorian era. I could have done a Plays Well With Others with this. There is a lot in...
View ArticleMighty Protectors: Converting* Villains & Vigilantes
Mighty Protectors is billed as Villains & Vigilantes 3.0. For the most part, I am completely fine with that. The game feels the same and mostly plays the same. There are differences though. The...
View ArticleNo Way For You To Fight This: Carmilla and Laura for Mighty Protectors
I continue two series today! Of course I was going to bring together to my two newest obsessions; Carmilla and Mighty Protectors.Outfits based on this picture.All ADHD and OCD aside, Carmilla offers me...
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