Despite my interest in Call of Cthulhu, I didn't really get into playing in Chaosium's Lovecraftian RPG until I was in my late teens. Up until that point, my informative gaming experiences had been a combination of D&D, the GDW house system (in all it's guises - Dark Conspiracy, Traveller, Twilight 2000, etc), and interestingly enough, FGU's ( Read more... )

Have you ever seen a game that rips your own ideas out of your brian and puts them on a page better than you ever could have done? In my case this is Barbarians of Lemuria...

Barbarians of Lemuria by Simon Washbourne (of Beyond Belief Games)

So you take the 2d6 mechanics, throw in hero points and a really intuitive skills system, and there you've ( Read more... )

This is my second post on the Mega RPG weekend, this time on a really fun game of Mansions of Madness.
...of Madness

I'd heard a lot about this game before playing it, both via friends and the general gossip over on Yog-sothoth.com. It seemed to me to be an attempt to fix up some of the issues that had been toted about Fantasy Flight's other Cthulhu ( Read more... )

This isn't a review. For one of those, you either have to read the RPG or actually play a game of it. This is neither. This is just my impressions of the game as I flick through its pages.

Scarrport: City of Secrets by Gun Metal Games
After the buzz of reading through Reign of Discordia, I thought I'd take a look at other products published by Gun ( Read more... )

This isn't a review.This is just my impressions of the game as I flick through its pages.

Reign of Discordia - a space opera setting published by Gun Metal Games (previously Reality Deviant Publications).
Just a point - While originally a True20 product, I note that a Traveller edition has been produced and there could well be a Savage Worlds ( Read more... )

Last night I had a good read through the Dragon Age RPG. Interesting and simple system, with some nice flavour and very straightforward core mechanics ( Read more... )

This isn't a review. For one of those, you either have to read the RPG or actually play a game of it. This is neither. This is just my impressions of athe game as I flick through its pages.

Atomic Highway by Radioactive Ape Design
I've always been a big fan of post-apocalyptic settings, be they in roleplaying (Aftermath, Twilight: 2000, Summerlands, ( Read more... )

This isn't a review. For one of those you either have to read the RPG or play a game of it. This is neither. This is a comment on my impressions as I flick through its pages.

Tribe 8 by Dream Pod Nine

Okay, now I know this sounds a bit odd to do such a thing, but the simple act of looking over this book made me want to speak out. Yep, that right, ( Read more... )