Reviews of core rulebooks, sourcebooks, advice, guides, novels, reference guides… Anything printed, really.
This update is going up late thanks to a massive snowstorm at Mephit HQ, but I’m here today to talk about the newest Monte Cook Games game system, Stealing Stories for the Devil. This enigmatic heist game has mind-bending qualities and mechanics the are fun and flexible. Just what you’d expect from MCG.
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I’m back in the world of Scion today with a look at the Player’s Guide book Saints and Monsters. This book is brimming with different possible pathways for your Scion character so let’s see which of them are worth your time!
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Have you ever not heard a phrase for a long while and then suddenly come across it a whole bunch at once? For me this month that’s been “solarpunk,” and today I’m here to talk to you about a solarpunk RPg of epic scale: Wildsea.
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I’m back with the second half of my Avatar Legends RPG review. Last time I talked about character creation and the start of mechanics. I’m picking up right where I left off to give you the action-packed details!
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Today I’m taking a look at the new Avatar: Legends RPG from Magpie Games, a Powered by the Apocalypse game based on the Avatar cartoon from Nickelodeon. If you’ve seen Avatar (or just now Googled it) you will know that it’s a martial-arts-heavy story with a lot of big emotions. How well does that translate into a game? Let’s take a look and see!
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It’s been a weather-dominated week for the Mephit household with multiple snow days and cars stuck in the snow. I’m short on time for the review that I’m writing but I didn’t want to leave my readers hanging so I’m here with a thematically-appropriate post from five years ago about a survival-and-community game set in the Ice Age, which I still think rocks!
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Today’s review is a detailed look at Monte Cook Game’s First Responders sourcebook, a setting/rules book for their Cypher System aimed at telling the stories of the frontline servicepeople stopping and mitigating disasters.
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It’s the last post of 2022 and I’ve decided to dedicate it to, Tiny Taverns by Gallant Knight Games, a small game from two years ago. Why? Well, the short answer is that it was suggested a while back by DriveThru RPG and I was intrigued enough to check it out. The longer answer is that I think this is fun, easy game that could be the exciting one-shot you need this holiday season.
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I’m here today with the latest Scion goodness from Onyx Path. This time we’re taking a break from god’s and heroes and delving into the new and mysterious world of dragons.
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This week I’m reposting a review that I published a while ago for the game Coyote & Crow, a game written and inspired by Indigenous peoples. This week being American Thanksgiving, a holiday which is about family and food as well as rosy visions of a fraught national legacy, it seemed like an excellent time for another signal boost for this great game.
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