Friday Fantasy: The Magonium Mine Murders ‘Trouble down mine’ is the least of the problems facing the Player Characters in The Magonium Mine Murders , a scenario which details the ma...

#FridayFantasy: The Magonium Mine Murders

A review of the murder-mystery scenario published by Gonzo History Project for use with Old School Essentials from Necrotic Gnome.

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The Other OSR: Get It At Sutler’s S hall we go shopping? Shopping can be a necessity, it can be a chore, and it can be fun. Whether online or in person, we need to shop for e...

The Other OSR: Get It At Sutler’s

A review of the department store campaign setting for Troika!, the weird Science Fantasy RPG from the Melsonian Arts Council.

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Ecology & Exploration The halls of each of the Mappa Mundi Institutes stand as a repository of memory and a cradle of curiosity. Each is an archive of what was be...

Ecology & Exploration

A review of Mappa Mundi – An Exploration + Ecology RPG, a collaborative storytelling roleplaying game of exploration, discovery, and ecological change from Three Sails Studios.

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Operative Disorientation SLA Industries is the roleplaying game set in a far future dystopia of corporate greed, commodification of ultraviolence, the mediatisation...

Operative Disorientation

A review of SLA Borg, the SLA Industries meets Mörk Borg OSR-adjacent RPG from Nightfall Games.

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[Free RPG Day 2025] Wires in the Wood Now in its eighteenth year, Free RPG Day for 2025 took place on Saturday, June 21st. As per usual, Free RPG Day consisted of an array of n...

[#FreeRPGDay 2025] Wires in the Wood

A review of the Wires in the Woods: A trash-foraging TTRPG Solo Quickstart published by Critical Kit, Ltd. for Free RPG Day 2025.

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[Free RPG Day 2025] Scry, Scry My Little Eye Now in its eighteenth year,   Free RPG Day for 2025   took place on Saturday, June 21st. As per usual, Free RPG Day consisted of an array of...

[Free RPG Day 2025] Scry, Scry My Little Eye

A review of the low-preparation, replayable adventure published by Loke BattleMats for Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition.

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Year 1873 The year is 1873. Ulysses S. Grant begins his second term as President of the United States. There is no let up in the Indian Wars on the ne...

Year 1873

A review of Tales of the Old West, the Year Zero Western RPG published by Effekt.

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The Old World Anew (Part I) The Empire, located at the heart of the Old World, has stood for two thousand years, ever since it was founded by Sigmar following his allia...

The Old World Anew (Part I)

A review of Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Player’s Guide published by Cubicle 7 Entertainment.

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Your SHIVER Slasher Starter Summer camp is a tradition. A chance for the parents to take a break from their children and a chance for the children to meet other childre...

Your SHIVER Slasher Starter

A review of the SHIVER Slasher Starter Set, a horror genre starter for Shiver – Role-playing Tales in the Strange & the Unknown published by Parable Games.

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The Other OSR: Ship of Fools The year is 1395. The Hundred Years War has long been over, but neither Europe, or indeed, Christendom is stable. The Crusades continue in t...

#TheOtherOSR: Ship of Fools

A review of the anti-papal ‘Genre Set-Up’ for Sanction: A Tabletop Roleplaying Game of Challenges & Hacks, published by Just Crunch Games.

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Achtung! Ardennes Achtung! Cthulhu is the roleplaying game of fast-paced pulp action and Mythos magic published by Modiphius Entertainment . It is pitches th...

Achtung! Ardennes

A review of Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Forest of Fear, the campaign for Achtung! Cthulhu published by Modiphius Entertainment.

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[Fanzine Focus XXXIX] The Beholder Issue 4 On the tail of the Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nono...

[#FanzineFocus XXXIX] The Beholder Issue 4

—A retrospective review of the award-winning British #fanzine's fourth issue for Dungeons & Dragons published in 1979.

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Cosmic Changed A new life awaits you in the far reaches of the galaxy! A chance to begin a life of adventure and excitement in a dark region of opportunity...

Cosmic Changed

A review of Cosmic Dark, the cosmic and Science Fiction horror roleplaying game designed by Graham Walmsley.

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Friday Fantasy: Temple of the Forgotten Depths Dreams of a beautiful dark-skinned woman asking to be returned to the ocean and a temple hidden within its depths. A local coastline being b...

#FridayFantasy: Temple of the Forgotten Depths

A review of the ‘5E+’—Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition and Dungeons & Dragons 2024—scenario from No Short Rests!

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The Putney Pirate When you are called into to investigate a violent assault at an address in Putney, Southwest London, it sounds like any other day on the job...

The Putney Pirate

A review of Jimmy’s Last Dance: A Swashbuckling Case File of Family Intrigue based on @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Rivers of London novels and published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Meddling Mysteries It could be the seventies. It could be the eighties. It could be nineties. It could be now. Whatever the decade, the world is in danger and ...

Meddling Mysteries

A review of Bite Me!, the Buffy meets Scooby-Doo supplement for the Awfully Cheerful Engine!, ‘A Roleplaying Game of Action Comedy’ published by EN Publishing.

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Solitaire: Innsmouth: The Stolen Child It begins in simple, almost Film Noir fashion. There is not much call for a Private Investigator right now in Arkham. So, both cases and fun...

Solitaire: Innsmouth: The Stolen Child

A review of solo game book based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, published by Blue Fox Gamebooks.

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Strontium Dog I In 1988, Games Workshop would have published its fourth home grown roleplaying game. Like its second, Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game , t...

Strontium Dog I

A review of the Strontium Dog roleplaying game, based on the 2000 AD character that Games Workshop never published.

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Slasher Serial There is someone stalking us. Someone faceless or wearing a mask that hides his features, makes him anonymous, who wants us dead. He will ca...

Slasher Serial

A review of SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder, a cinema-themed campaign for Shiver – Role-playing Tales in the Strange & the Unknown published by Parable Games.

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From Beyond In the mile-high tower of the Spire, the Aelfir—the High Elves—enjoy lives of extreme luxury, waited upon by the Destra—the Drow—whom they h...

From Beyond

A review of Doors to Elsewhere, a supplement for Heart: The City Beneath published published by Rowan, Rook, and Decard Ltd.

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Your Fallout Starter It is the year 2287 and life is far from easy in the remains of New England, including Boston, an area called ‘The Commonwealth’. Two centur...

Your Fallout Starter

A review of the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game – Starter Set, based on Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4 and published by Modiphius Entertainment.

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The Other OSR: The Hand of God Troika! is both a setting and a roleplaying game. As the latter, it provides simple, clear mechanics inspired by the Fighting Fantasy seri...

The Other OSR: The Hand of God

A review of the second ‘1:5 Troika Adventures’ for Troika!, the weird Science Fantasy RPG from the Melsonian Arts Council.

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Terminator Terror III The war against Skynet and its rise focuses on three time periods. The first is the morning in America of Ronald Reagan’s nineteen eighties ...

Terminator Terror III

A review of The Terminator RPG: Resist! – A Sourcebook for The Terminator RPG, for the post-apocalyptic, time travel RPG by Andrew E.C. Gaska et al and published by Nightfall Games.

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Solitaire: Aces Over the Adriatic There is something utterly romantic and beguiling as you soar through the skies above the azure waters of the Adriatic, the sun glinting off...

Solitaire: Aces Over the Adriatic

A review of the solo journalling of interwar aviation and memory published by Critical Kit, Ltd.

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The Eleventh Doctor As with previous regenerations of ‘Nu-Who’, the Eleventh Doctor arrives with a bang! Building on the foundations laid down by his predecesso...

The Eleventh Doctor

A review of The Eleventh Doctor Sourcebook published by Cubicle 7 Entertainment for use with Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space roleplaying game.

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Here and There Grimsbury stands at the confluence of two rivers, some miles inland from the sea, its industry struggling to recover from the return to civi...

Here and There

A review of The Grimsbury English Folk Horror RPG, published by Ubique Publications.

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Inside the Thunder Dome In the not-too-distant future, 2020, civilisation is no more. It was wiped away by the falling of bombs, by the plagues that ran rampant, by...

Inside the Thunder Dome

A review of Domes of Thunder, the Post-Apocalypse supplement for the Awfully Cheerful Engine!, ‘A Roleplaying Game of Action Comedy’ published by EN Publishing.

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Quick-Start Saturday: Sisterhood Quick-starts are a means of trying out a roleplaying game before you buy. Each should provide a Game Master with sufficient background to in...

Quick-Start Saturday: Sisterhood

A review of the Sisterhood – Quickstart Guide, the roleplaying game of ‘kickarse’ nuns versus demons and the occult published by Parable Games.

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Your Second Star Trek Starter With the publication of Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius Entertainment in 2017, there have been a total of ten roleplaying games based on...

Your Second Star Trek Starter

A review of the Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Starter Set using the #2d20 System published by Modiphius Entertainment.

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