Review: End Times (ORC Edition)

End Times (ORC Edition) by Brian St. Claire-King of Varja Enterprises For today’s review, we’re going to bring you another new (to us) publisher.  We discovered this product trolling Kickstarter, something that seems to be becoming a habit for us, and looking for games that sounded both different from what we had and like something … Continue reading Review: End Times (ORC Edition)

Review: Vertices

In October of last year, the books for Monte Cook Games’ Liminal Shores Kickstarter started fulfilling with the first book, Voices of the Datasphere.  Vertices continues the tally of material from this Kickstarter with additional material ready to drop into your Numenera game whether you use the concept of the Datasphere or simply wish for … Continue reading Review: Vertices

Review: LowLife 2090

LowLife 2090, a game of Cyberpunk and Sorcery by Steven Grodzicki of Pickpocket Press One of the first Kickstarters we backed, we did, to be honest, out of spite.  We have mentioned before that both Joann and I come from a heavy background of Cyberpunk and particularly Shadowrun.  She and I both really love the … Continue reading Review: LowLife 2090

Review: Teratology

Here we see Taramoc Eslin teaching in a lecture setting... For this review, we will be continuing our look at the supplemental Invisible Sun books from the original Invisible Sun Kickstarter.  We have touched on Secrets of Silent Streets and Book M already.  Most systems, however, have some form of bestiary.  Something with monsters and … Continue reading Review: Teratology

Review: Book M

I’ve always kind of been a sucker for mechanics in a game that are tied to a story in such a way that the world feels more enriched.  This list includes things like Forgotten Realms’ Mythals, powerful elven rituals affecting people, geography, climate, and other things.  It includes Shadowrun’s Great Ghost Dance that saved the … Continue reading Review: Book M