[Guest Review] Berlin the Wicked City for Call of Cthulhu

Hi there! I’m Lanz, a new-ish Keeper of Arcane Lore. I’ve been running Call of Cthulhu games for only two and a half years, so the perspective you’ll see in this review is from a new Keeper’s point of view. I saw this book posted on Chaosium’s website a while ago, and I immediately assumed […]

[Let’s Study: Legend of the Five Rings] Part 6: GMing and Review

And we’ve hit the final entry to this series. Today is a quick peek into the GMing chapter and a final review of the game as it stands.

[Let’s Study: Vampire the Masquerade, 5th Edition] Part 11: Review

Vampire: the Masquerade’s 5th edition knows exactly what it wants to be, but has only a hazy, drug-addled recollection of how it got there. Given that it’s a product of a new (and different) White Wolf, I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise. They marketed V5 as a triumphant return, a reinvention of an old […]

[Let’s Study Genesys] Part 7: Review

I’ve always had a thing for generic RPGs. I dabbled in GURPS, fell in love with HERO, and checked out OVA for anime shenanigans. And now Genesys shows up, the new hotness, with promises of Narrative gaming and excitement. With fancy colorful dice and symbols, and a resume that boasts of being the engine behind […]

[Let’s Study: RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha] Part 8: Review

I walked in to this Let’s Study with a sense of trepidation. Much like Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest was a thing even before I was born, so coming into it now in a much, much newer edition meant throwing myself into decades of lore and myth and expectations that I knew nothing about. But gods […]