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Published through the Kera Vortiwife itch, Bloodsuckers was first published in August 2024. I paid $5 for the game on itch and received a 54-page PDF accompanied by two form-fillable character shee…| Taskerland
Last year, I reviewed Andrew Peregrine’s Cthulhu Regency sourcebook for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and considered it to be not only a wasted opportunity, but also a waste of time and money. Having …| Taskerland
Games Half Remembered is an occasional series about old games. Some of these games I have played, others I have merely admired, but all of them have stuck in my memory for one reason or another. T…| Taskerland
INSPO is a series of posts about non-horror topics that could nonetheless be used as inspiration for a horror game. The rest of the series can be found here. I am, much to my regret, someone who te…| Taskerland
Naively, the current RPG community breaks down into three basic camps. New school, old school, and indie or story game. While this is an oversimplification, a perusal of a number of games on offer lends some substance to the categories. Fourth Edition D&D and Pathfinder: new school. B/X D&D and Lamentations of the Flame Princess: old school. Apocalypse World and Torchbearer: indie. This division exists based on a number of factors, including marketing reach, the fuzzy borders created by onlin...| Necropraxis
The other day, Warren D at I Cast Light put up a really good and thought-provoking post about running Lovecraftian investigation games. The post covers a lot of ground that I won’t rehash but the b…| Taskerland
Way back in 1980, someone named Glenn Blacow submitted an article to Different Worlds magazine. The piece was entitled “Aspects of Adventure Gaming” and it was an attempt to address creative tensio…| Taskerland
