One Shot Reviews
I played a single session of this game, either as the GM or as a player
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(I talk quite a bit about my relationship to MCDM and the first Draw Steel crowdfunder up top, skip to the section titled “The Game” if you just want the review.) I made a really stupid goal to write 13 reviews in 14 days at the beginning of my winter break. Three days ago, I
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That’s right, baby! It’s time for a lightning round of reviews! These are all the games I played this year before I started blogging, and I think they still deserve some memorialization. Some games I want to give a full review of, but I wasn’t taking notes back then and I think trying to wing
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(Header image is The Wild Swans by Arthur Joseph Gaskin from Birmingham Museums Trust) Get in loser, we doing fairy-tales. Perils & Princesses is a strong contender for the best of my hot OSR summer (HOSRS), which surprised me. I had the (incorrect) assumption that this was somewhat of a family game: Built from the
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(Header image is the enchantingly beautiful cover art of Electric Bastionland, illustrated by Alec Sorensen) The cover art shown above played a significant part in my departure from DND 5e, and the subsequent luminous adventure into the world of amazing rpgs that exist outside the Wizard’s gravitational pull.
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(Header image from Jeff S. PhotoArt at HDCanvas.ca) “You all meet in a tavern…” Yes! This is exactly what I wanted, just a classic dnd experience with some new designer philosophies. I had in front of me a classic ranger character sheet, with interesting abilities that I chose myself by applying stickers from a wide
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(Header image by Bogle, one of our great players) Not every game is for you (or for me for that matter). In an industry where the biggest fish avoids making any interesting choices in favor of offending the fewest number of tastes, Jay Dragon is making games that are unapologetically about something. Sleepaway plays out
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“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.“(Header image by the esteemed Johan Nohr for Into the Odd) Deep in my hot OSR summer, I came across this particularly bad take on Reddit, paraphrased below. “As much as I LOVE the idea of Into the Odd, the
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(Header image is from The Grand Budapest Hotel, a Wes Anderson Film. The connection to Troika will become apparent.) How do I put this? Troika by Daniel Sell is groundbreaking, surreal, and unhinged. The settings and adventures are topnotch. It is so unique, but I don’t recommend you play it. Well, not using its system
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(Header image from the beloved children’s novel, Redwall by Brian Jacques) Redwall was my childhood. Most people I know (nerds) had some form of exposure too. If you are reading this blog you probably read at least one of these glorious books, but I think I may have been one in the top 1% of
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(Header image from the hyper-violent Eat the Reich vampires vs facists rpg, written by Grant Howitt and illustrated Will Kirkby) Disclaimer: I am writing this post from the beautiful rocky mountains of Denver, Colorado, which is about 6,000 feet in elevation higher than my home at sea level. The air is thin and the sparse
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