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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 3h

#MagazineMadness 34: Wyrd Science Vol. 1/Issue 4

A review of the fourth issue of the magazine published by Best in Show.

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Magazine Madness 34: Wyrd Science Issue 4

The gaming magazine is dead. After all, when was the last time that you were able to purchase a gaming magazine at your nearest newsagent? G...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 16h

#MiskatonicMonday #343: Hope’s End

A review of the 1914, New England-set scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #343: Hope’s End

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 1d

Your Imperium Maledictum Starter

A review of the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum Starter Set published by Cubicle 7 Entertainment.

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Your Imperium Maledictum Starter

The light of the Emperor’s divine might reaches everywhere—but not always. Only in recent years has the Great Rift begun to unseal and the m...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 1d

#MiskatonicMonday #342: William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion

A review of the Ballarat, Australia-set scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #342: William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 2d

The Other OSR: The Chapel of the Hanged God

A review of the pointcrawl/dungeon adventure from Loot the Room for #MorkBorg, the #OSR style RPG designed by @sthlm_krtlland published by @FreeLeaguePub.

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The Other OSR: The Chapel of the Hanged God

As the world slides towards its seemingly inevitable end, there are those who desperately search for ways to stop its collapse—or at least f...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 2d

#MiskatonicMonday #341: The Silent Cure

A review of the ‘Inhalation of the Body Snatchers’ scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #341: The Silent Cure

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 3d

Mauve Madness

A review of The Cthulhu by Gaslight: Investigators’ Guide – Mysteries & Frights in the Victorian Age published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Mauve Madness

From the detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the ghost stories of M.R. James, from the adventure tales of H. Rider Haggard to the...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 6d

#MiskatonicMonday #340: Deadfellas

A review of the 80s Mafia meets the Mythos, New York-set body dump scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #340: Deadfellas

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 7d

One game system at least.

Then I have the choice to...

(a) use
(b) ignore
(c) adapt

pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 7d

Friday Fantasy: Adventure Anthology 1

A review of the Old-School Essentials Adventure Anthology 1 for Old School Essentials published by Necrotic Gnome.

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Friday Fantasy: Adventure Anthology 1

Since it first appeared in 2019, Old School Essentials has proven to be a very popular choice of roleplaying game when it comes to the Old ...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 7d

Friday Filler: Equinox

A review of the forest-themed game by Reiner Knizia and published by Plan B Games.

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Friday Filler: Equinox

At each equinox, mythical creatures gather in the magical forest to compete to be the ones to have their tales recorded in the Legendary Sto...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 8d

#FridayFantasy: Thieves of Cold Corner

A review of Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar #14: Thieves of Cold Corner for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Boxed Set published by Goodman Games.

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Friday Fantasy: Thieves of Cold Corner

Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar #14: Thieves of Cold Corner is a scenario for Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game an...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 8d

Solitaire: Ion Heart

A review of Ion Heart: Solo Mech Exploration RPG published Parable Games.

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Solitaire: Ion Heart

In the far future, the Astral Union was invaded by the Strand Fleets of the Nephilim Colossi. It was totally unexpected and the enemy, havin...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 9d

In that case, tell him to check out Six Seasons in Sartar.

Best introduction available.

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 9d

That is the standard response, but that is not wholly true today.

There are ways in that do not overwhelm with lore and background.

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 9d

The Other OSR: Omega City

A review of Omega City – Ashcan Edition for We Deal in Lead, the post-apocalyptic dark and weird west roleplaying game published by By Odin’s Beard.

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The Other OSR: Omega City

In the far future of broken landscapes, stretched landscapes, and lost landscapes there is often only the appearance of the Gunslinger and t...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 9d

#MiskatonicMonday #339: The Exhibition of Dread

A review of the modern day, Boston-set scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #339: The Exhibition of Dread

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 10d

I Sing The Mind Electric

A review of The Electric State Roleplaying Game, the pre-apocalyptic Science Fiction dystopia based on the book by Simon Stålenhag and published by Free League Publishing.

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I Sing The Mind Electric

The extinction is coming and America is dying. It began in 1974 in the wake of President Ford pardoning Nixon after Watergate and an assassi...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 14d

When the Wind Walks

A review of Jack Frost, the scenario in which the Player Characters are MAJESTIC, published by Arc Dream Publishing for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game.

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When the Wind Walks

Something strange happened in Willis, Alabama at 1:43 am on December 22nd, 1998. The temperature dropped from a typical seasonal average of ...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 15d

The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes IV

A review of Miseries & Misfortunes – Book 4: Plus de Misères published by Burning Wheel.

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The Other OSR: Miseries & Misfortunes IV

Miseries & Misfortunes is a roleplaying game set in seventeenth century France designed and published following a successful Kickstarter ca...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 16d

Quick-Start Saturday: The God Beneath the Tree

A review of The God Beneath the Tree: A Quickstart Playset for Cthulhu Awakens using the AGE System published by Green Ronin Publishing.

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Quick-Start Saturday: The God Beneath the Tree

Quick-starts are a means of trying out a roleplaying game before you buy. Each should provide a Game Master with sufficient background to in...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 16d

#MiskatonicMonday #338: The Road Unravelled

A review of the 1980s, Michigan-set scenario for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc.

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Miskatonic Monday #338: The Road Unravelled

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 17d

Words Between the War

A review of The Words We Leave Behind, the epistolary roleplaying game published by Lunar Shadow Designs inspired by This Is How You Lose the Time War.

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Words Between the War

Between the quotas and the quanta, there is time for questions. Between the propaganda and proselytism there is time for pondering. Between ...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 20d

The Magnus Mythos

A review of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying, the Cypher System roleplaying game from Monte Cook Games based on The Magnus Archives podcast.

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The Magnus Mythos

For over two hundred years, since 1818, the Magnus Institute has stood on a quiet street in London, its doors open to those who have a suspi...

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 20d

Time to run a one-shot then!