Review: Godforsaken

My first foray ever so many years ago... Fantasy.  Ever since I was a boy and I first ran across some neighbors of mine sitting in the back of a pop-up camper one summer with a curious red box with a dragon on the front of it, I have bathed in classic Fantasy.  From C.S. … Continue reading Review: Godforsaken

Flavoring Your Setting With Custom Types

By now, most of you have noticed that Josh and I have been tabletop roleplaying gamers for a long time. We’ve spent countless hours both behind the DM screen and in front of it. From Dungeons & Dragons to Shadowrun, numerous games in between, and now the Cypher System.  In them all, we’ve tried to … Continue reading Flavoring Your Setting With Custom Types

Gaming, Lego-Style

Or, you could play SimCity and not have to clean all of these up for dinner... Legos: blocks of creativity and play. Most of us built with them as children, in classrooms, at home. Sets are built now to target adults, or older children, from Star Wars to NASA Rockets.  They’re both the brightly colored … Continue reading Gaming, Lego-Style

The GM-Player Team

Plotting and planning together is often more productive than doing so alone... We at Angel’s Citadel spend a lot of time focusing on, talking, and writing about collaborative storytelling and roleplaying games.  I suppose you could say it’s our “jam”.  Both Joann and I love the feeling when a story unfolds spontaneously and there’s a … Continue reading The GM-Player Team

Review: Hope’s Horizon – Starter Kit

Welcome to Orion's Spur. Come explore the Black with us... This is it. This is what we've been pushing toward for the last two months. Today, the Hope's Horizon Starter Kit went live on DriveThruRPG.com, and we're so excited to share it with all of you. I want to take a little time today and … Continue reading Review: Hope’s Horizon – Starter Kit