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Ink Review: Diamine Evergreen
I’ve mentioned Diamine Evergreen before, but it was generally in comparison to other inks — not a “review” as such. Let me explain why I’m revisiting my ink collection. I recently had an epiphany that...
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Ink Review: Diamine Oxblood
Subjective Why I like Oxblood: The sheer depth of bloody colour when laid on thick A dark red that works for markup but also notes and is fairly easy on the eye (if you can stand the sight of blood)...
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RPG Second Look: FATE (and Bundles of)
Be quick! The Bundle of Holding has re-released its Bundle of FATE, an offer good for another 4 days or so. Also this could be your last chance to look at Starblazer Adventures and Legends of Anglerre...
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Science Fiction Hobby Games: A First Survey
Before I begin, I should be upfront: I’ve known the author for many years, so I’m inclined to be favourable. Readers should be skeptical of reviews anyway, but there’s good reason to be in this...
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RPG Spotlight: Fiasco / Ribbon Drive
Since last month’s post I’ve managed to cross two games off my immediate wish list (and it looks like we’ll be playing both Kingdom and Apocalypse World in the near future, so things are progressing...
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Blowing Up The Movies: Punch. That. Shit!
Thanks to the phenomenal success of Atlas Games Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter the companion ebook Blowing Up The Movies achieved all of its stretch goals, covering a wide range of action movie genres from...
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RPG First Look: Whitehack
I’ve said before that the OSR is like Linux: OSR games are like Linux distributions: they reflect the operability ideals of the designers, they’re essentially a diffuse package of commands that the...
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RPG First Look: Fugue
James Wallis’ Alas Vegas kickstarter was fantastically successful with a backing of 8 times its initial goal. It was also fantastically optimistic with delivery dates with an estimate of June 2013 for...
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RPG First Look: Black Hack, Malandros and Blades in the Dark
I backed the Kickstarters for the three games below. In no particular order: The Black Hack The thing I admire most about OSR games is how they’ve taken the moving parts and tuned them for a particular...
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RPG First Look: Starvation Cheap
I finally sat down to Starvation Cheap — Sine Nomine’s military campaign supplement for Stars Without Number — after re-reading Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. That in turn reminded me of the first...
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RPG First Look: Mournblade
I got my copy of Mournblade at Librarie la Licorne in Aix. Last visit they’d moved all the jeux de roles to the cellar and kept the bandes desinees on the ground floor. They had lots of sexy French...
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RPG Retrospective: Hawkmoon
Just recently I found this site cataloging the Premier and Nouvelle Editions of the French Hawkmoon RPG. The links to Oriflam and other places are long dead, and it’s a shame that the graphics aren’t...
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RPG Revisited: Continuum and Narcissist
Narcissist is the companion game to the compelling but unplayable Continuum, slated for a 2008 release but so far yet to see anything beyond the 0.7 testing release. In this post I’ll do a couple of...
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RPG First Look: Perdition vs. Crypts & Things
The Black Hack may have all the OSR (and indie) cred right now, but I’ve just been reading two other 2016 OSR releases. The first is Perdition from Hack and Slash publishing. It’s self-consciously a...
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RPG Backwards Look: Daytrippers Core
I’m posting this today for a couple of reasons. First, today’s #RPGaDay 2017 question is “Where do you go for RPG reviews?”. Second and more important AsIf Productions the author and publisher of...
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