June 2024 – Refereeing and Reflection
1 post published by Arthur during June 2024| Refereeing and Reflection
1 post published by Arthur during June 2024| Refereeing and Reflection
A little while back I reviewed Heroic Worlds, a Herculean endeavour from Lawrence Schick which emerged in 1991. Rather than being put out by one section of the RPG industry or another, this came ou…| Refereeing and Reflection
The Gardens of Ynn and The Stygian Library are a pair of scenarios for old-school D&D and its close relatives, designed by Emmy Allen, who I previously interviewed to showcase her Esoteric Ente…| Refereeing and Reflection
The Elusive Shift, published as part of MIT Press’s Game Histories range, can be seen as Jon Peterson’s followup to Playing At the World, picking up on some subjects alluded to in there…| Refereeing and Reflection
After the infamous corporate drama which saw a new regime take over at Chaosium in order to save the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Kickstarter from disaster, Greg Stafford and Sandy Petersen arr…| Refereeing and Reflection
A while back I reviewed Jon Peterson’s Playing At the World, the first of his in-depth books of RPG history. Though very good, the book’s got the drawback of having spent a fair bit of …| Refereeing and Reflection
It’s been a couple of years or so since Free League released their new edition of The One Ring. The pace of releasing new products seems a little slower than when the line was under Cubicle 7…| Refereeing and Reflection
When The Silmarillion was first released in 1977, it was the first major release of Middle-Earth material since Tolkien’s death. Whilst chunks of the backstory to Middle-Earth had been hinted…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
It seems genuinely difficult for a 100% new tabletop RPG to take off these days, especially one with a brand new system and an original setting. New editions, hacks of existing games, new applicati…| Refereeing and Reflection
