Time for another entry in my occasional series of mini-reviews on game supplements I have thoughts substantial enough to write about, but lean enough that I don’t want to dedicate a whole art…| Refereeing and Reflection
Though Star Trek Adventures, particularly in its tightened-up second edition, is my current gold standard when it comes to Trek-based tabletop RPGs, it’s hardly the first game in that sphere. As I outlined in my review of Star Trek Adventures‘ first edition, there were a fair few officially licensed Trek RPGs that preceded it – … Continue reading Star Trek: The FASA Frontier (and Philosophical Theories On Spiritual Successors)| Refereeing and Reflection
Although Chaosium have provided at least some support for the popular 1890s-based Cthulhu By Gaslight setting for Call of Cthulhu during the game’s 7th Edition era thanks to the Cthulhu Through the Ages supplement, which provides 7th Edition guidance for creating Investigators in a number of eras (and thus provides all you need to use … Continue reading A Victorian Antique Restored: Cthulhu By Gaslight Investigators’ Guide| Refereeing and Reflection
Extremely online billionaire and corrupt barnacle on the hull of the American ship of state Elon Musk recently stirred up some controversy by hinting he might buy out Hasbro. This may or may not be serious – he talks about buying lots of things he doesn’t end up touching, he only went through on the … Continue reading The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: The Manufacture of a Controversy| Refereeing and Reflection
Time for another entry in my occasional series covering RPG supplements I want to comment on but don’t fancy doing a fully-developed article on individually. This time around, I’ve got some Call of Cthulhu scenarios, some Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay releases that recently slipped out in hard copy, and the RuneQuest supplement Chaosium has been building … Continue reading Supplement Supplemental! (Lands of RuneQuest, Horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos, and Typos of Warhammer)| 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
Age of Vikings is a brand-new RPG from Chaosium… or rather, it is and it isn’t. Age of Vikings is certainly a new brand for them – but its author, Pedro Ziviani, had previously wr…| Refereeing and Reflection
Authors:Andrei Antonie Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, University of Eastern Finland, FINLAND Andrei Antonie, PhD. candidate Mitropolitul Andrei Şaguna Street no. 57, Bucharest, 012931, Romania andreia@uef.fi| The Sport Journal
A while back I went to the British Library’s Medieval Women: In Their Own Worlds exhibition. As well as being absolutely fascinating in its own right, it was a decidedly worthwhile visit from…| 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
Last year, Modiphius released the second edition rulebook for their Star Trek Adventures RPG. Back when I reviewed the first edition, I was rather favourably impressed, though when my Wednesday nig…| Refereeing and Reflection
In the early days of RuneQuest, the old guard at Chaosium made the game a major success, a serious challenger to Dungeons & Dragons, and arguably the most groundbreaking and sophisticated RPG o…| 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
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
