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(Header art is a Legend of Zelda illustration for Nintendo Power from Katsuya Terada) HEROISM. Spencer Campbell has done something very special with WYRM. During my extended stay in the OSR-sphere I have truly enjoyed being a dirty little guy going into a hole in the ground to get treasure. There is something charming about
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Look. Like many of you, my brain has problems. And I can never, ever, ever say the name of this absolute banger of a game from Rowan, Rook and Decard without the supergroup also named Royal Blood popping into my head. I think it’s a feature not a bug, but the constant loop is important
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(Photo by Avi Werde on Unsplash) Before we start, I want to note that Delta Green inherently is a game where you engage as armed operatives of the United States government. While I do not think the game explicitly paints these agents as heroes, disturbingly I would not be surprised to learn that there are
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(Photo by Anita Jankovic on Unsplash) Hello and welcome one and all to the 2026 Milk Awards: Known far and wide like the rising tide, here to there like the county fair, from your basement to your game store, you’ve heard it all before. You know it, you love it: The Milk Awards! It is
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(Header image by Daisy D on Unsplash) Gus the Dragon is a simple GMless game for up to three players written by an up-and-coming designer I often have the pleasure of collaborating with. The mechanics are simple: Together, choose a name and a character, always in the form [Name] the [Creature]. Then choose an inciting
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(Header image is a trophy duck from this website) I have been dreading this review. Trophy The design is just so clean. You play treasure hunters cutting your way through a forest that will smother you. Anything risky is handled by a dice pool with the mixed successes we have come to know and love:
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(All art in this post is by Tania Herrero from the unbelievably generous Fomoria Quick Start) Fomoria is pitched as epic horror. Epic. Horror. Horror The horror bit is clear, the setting includes all the trappings of a horrid existence: All society has been forced into an endless labyrinth deep underground where true sunlight never
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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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(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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