Category: Reviews

  • A Post-mortem of My Hot Springs Island Campaign

    My group recently gave up on Dark of Hot Springs Island. Given the campaign’s reputation, I think it’s worth trying to figure out why. How much of it is the published campaign has problems? How much of it is a skill issue on my part? How much of it is that the published campaign leads…

  • Black Friday 2023 recs

    While waiting for Questing Beast’s sales guide to drop, I realized that I have a pretty extensive collection myself and could flag some things I recommend that are on sale. I have used all my recommendations at the table, except for Crypts & Things, which I read closely.

  • Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

    I recently read and enjoyed Stu Horvath’s Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground (hereafter MAHG) but it wasn’t what I expected. I was expecting something comparable to Art & Arcana but not limited to just D&D. There are two differences between Art & Arcana and MAHG. The obvious but less important one is that…

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    Rifts Atlantis for D&D and OSR

    Rifts is a post-apocalyptic giant robots firing missiles at demons game, which isn’t exactly the kind of thing you think of for OSR or D&D, but Rifts: Atlantis is readily adaptable to the OSR. Atlantis has relatively little of the fascists and giant robots world-building that characterizes most of Rifts but rather is sword and…