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Maybe it's the fact that I just had to spend an hour hacking a space in the frozen mound left by the snow plows on my sidewalk to fit my garbage bins, but I feel like talking...
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Alright, I think I can squeak in one more review this year, increasing my 2025 output by 33%... anyway, let's talk about Where The Sun Dies, an adventure for Vaesen, part of...
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Hello again, folks! Time for another sporadic review of something that I've run. This time I will be writing about Witches of Frostwyck, a wintry and folk-lorey adventure...
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The latest adventure for Glowburn & Radscars is live! Explore the swamp and lake that have formed over a city of the ancients and face the terrors that live in the murky...
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Greetings folks! I know it's been quite here of late, but nevertheless I've been working behind the scenes. If last year was about reviewing adventure modules, this year is...
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UPDATE Since writing this review, the team running the kickstarter offered an opportunity for backers to cancel their pledges and actually receive a refund due to the large...
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Hah, I bet you thought I was done with reviews! I am, mostly, but here's a little bonus. Over this past year I've been running an open-table game of Luke Gearing's Wolves Upon...
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It's time to review one of those classics that you always hear recommended whenever people are asking about Good Adventures in the OSR space. I finally decided to run it as a...
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Next up I'm going to talk about one of the most unique adventures that I've run thus far, partly due to the fact that it was not written for any particular system but rather...
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After the success of Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow, we were lucky enough for the Merry Mushmen to take on another couple of classic adventures for their remastering treatment....
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We're well past the Halloween season, but that just means we're in the grey late autumn time, which is perfect for Mörk Borg! This week I'll be talking about The Unseen Vaults...
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This marks the last review of a Goodman Games module in this blog series. I have run many others, but I've found that I tend to have less to say about them unless there is...
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Get the beans in the pot and make sure your hat is secure on your head, because we're reviewing another adventure for Frontier Scum! Cattledash! was written by Karl Druid (the...
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We are cycling through more introductory adventures! We go into the depths of space in the far, bleak future and review Welcome to the Ring for Death in Space by Christian...
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Sometimes, but not as often as I'd like, I host games at a local tap room near my house. Obviously, this sort of setting doesn't work for every game-- it's generally going to...
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Back to the Dying Lands and another introductory adventure! This week I'm talking about Rotblack Sludge for Mörk Borg. The text was written by Pelle Nilsson with art and...
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These days, I run about 90% of games in an online setting. One of the reasons I prefer this (apart from having a substantially larger pool of potential players) is that I can...Linked by the ring
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No, you're not experiencing deja vu-- I'm just reviewing another adventure about a temple with frogs in it. This is one of the adventure sites featured in the excellent What...
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This next review is for an adventure that from the A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon game jam that happened last year and resulted in a lot of great adventures. One of the...
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When you think of "weird west", you mind often immediately goes to something like Deadlands-- lots of magic, monsters, and "fantasy western" elements. This can very easily get...
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As I've mentioned before, the best kind of adventure is the "Interesting Town with Lots of Fun Stuff to Uncover Nearby" variety. This week I'm going to talk about a very highly...
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In an attempt to create some brain whiplash (I'm writing this review immediately after writing last week's), we're going to move from information firehose to succinct and...
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One simultaneous boon and burden of the non-mainstream TTRPG world is that there is a tremendous amount of third party content, and it can often be very difficult to keep track...
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I've been trying out a lot of different systems in the past couple of years in an attempt to get through the huge pile of them in my bookshelf. This endeavor is not made easier...
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Back to the blood-encrusted realm of Mörk Borg! This week I will be reviewing The Vaults of Torment by Christian Eichhorn. This one is a bit different from others that I've...
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Trains are a great device for stories-- movies, TV shows, books, games, what have you. They're a prime example of how a certain type of constraint on the environment can really...
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It will surprise some of you to learn that I was pretty out of the loop for most of the post 2000s OSR G+ boom. During most of this, I was in college and was either not playing...
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Next up is one of the quintessential introductory adventures for Mutant Crawl Classics-- indeed, in its original release it came with truncated versions of the artifact and AI...
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Get your radiation suits on and pick up your stop sign shields, because we're venturing back into the post-apocalypse realm for this week's review! Jungle Incursion into the...
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I've hinted at this before, but now I'm ready to release it into the wild! Glowburn and Radscars is a hack combining Cairn with Mutant Crawl Classics, and I have just made the...