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(Header image is the real life old folks home that I grew up going to for Christmas caroling and Easter egg hunts) I think maybe the best introduction to this RED style nursing home system is the resolution mechanic: As I started writing this review I realized that I couldn’t remember the exact resolution mechanic,…
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(Content warning: Imagined self harm) Before we begin this review, let us engage in a meditative exercise. If you cannot remember the following sequence of instructions, you may need someone you trust to read this to you while you ponder. This should be treated as a solo journey, but companionship may increase its value. Turn…
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(Header image is a pond on the smallest inhabited island in the Netherlands, taken by Zee, one of my players) Big Dog, Big Volcano is capital “R” Rest.
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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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(Header image by Michael Afonso on Unsplash) “I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal I think about this quote often. So often, in fact, that this isn’t even the first time I have used it to open a blog post. Brevity is…
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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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Disclaimer: I am real life friends with the designer, Matthew Ayers. I stayed in his house for Dragon Con and it was truly legendary. That said, this is one of the games I have played the most this year. I got the pleasure of GMing it at Dragon Con, and it is one of only…
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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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