Tag: reviews
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The RuneQuest Starter Set -Review
While learning about a new system is daunting for a group of players and GM to transition, resources that seriously reduce the load on a TTRPG group is priceless. And for a setting like Glorantha that is made by the gods and shaped by the powers of mortals it makes it so much easier to…
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The X-Files – Media Review
Some TV shows become a classic for a reason. Even when multiple shows begin to replicate what made it a success, it’s still relevant in our complicated modern world.
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Trophy Loom
Trophy Loom is a setting book for dark medieval fantasy roleplaying games. It’s system-free and intended for use in-game, as well as for world-building. Rather than long descriptions of people, places, and creatures, the book uses tables, with each entry detailing a morsel of information, along with one or more story hooks
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The Oracle of Yuggoth
Set in 2263 or thereabouts, The Oracle of Yuggoth is a space horror scenario for Call of Cthulhu. At 20 pages, with 5 pre-generated characters and a map, it’s suitable as a one-shot, leaning into disturbing psychological themes and the unrelenting nihilism that characterises cosmic horror. The players find themselves on a mission to Yuggoth,…
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Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory
A group of young performing arts students are offered a summer scholarship at the lauded Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory. Graduates from the intense 4-week performance bootcamp will find doors opening for them, and a path to greatness laid at their feet. But at what price? Miskatonic Shoreside Conservatory is a limited campaign for Cthulhu Dark, but…
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The Staffordshire Trading Company: Works of John Williams
In the year of our lord 1674, John Benjamin Williams lay dying in London. Having travelled the world as a spy for the English Crown, he returned and lived out his remaining years as a former spy should: quietly. In his sixtieth year, old and infirm, he put the finishing touches on this, his last…
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The Last Dance of Lola Montez – Call of Cthulhu
The Last Dance of Lola Montez is a modern Scenario for Call of Cthulhu set in the historical mining town of Ballarat, Australia. Clocking in at 43 pages, it contains 5 pre-generated characters and 8 handouts. Besides being a fun night’s entertainment, The Last Dance of Lola Montez makes for an interesting and thought-provoking read.…
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Doors To Darkness
Billed as a book of one-shots for new Keepers, Doors to darkness contains 5 short scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, covering a range of themes in a mere 142 pages.
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Magic Eater
A weird cult has stolen your players’ favourite magic item and intends to feed it to their so-called god! Will your players recover it in time, will they be waylaid by bandits, or will they fall foul of the many minions of the MAGIC EATER?
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Delta Green: Gods Teeth – A Campaign of Terror
God’s Teeth is a campaign that stands out from the rest. It follows a group of agents who are misled into completing a terrible mission by a compromised agent that haunts them for their lives. And it is genuinely terrifying, with real world terrors that need to be handled with care. The campaign itself rivals…
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Call of Cthulhu: Arkham
Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is a triumph, achieving a near-perfect balance between providing fine detail and allowing for Keeper improvisation.
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A Midsummer Night’s Darkness
A Midsummer Night’s Darkness is an unabashedly feminist romp through the wilds of Shropshire in the summer of 1909. A group of Suffragists are caravanning through the region, leafleting and making speeches in support of the right to vote for women. Their idyll is soon shattered, however, by forces beyond mortal ken. And a pair…
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Blackwater Creek: Top-Shelf Horror
Blackwater creek is a decrepit backwater, festering quietly along the banks of the Miskatonic river in rural Massachusetts. The year is 1926 and the prohibition is in full effect, but gangsters and the prohibition agents who hunt them will turn out to be the least of the players problems.
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The Pale Lady: Fear and Fairytales
Deep in the woods lives a witch called the Pale Lady. She’s not really a witch, though, that’s just what folk say. She’s a faerie queen. Every spring, her man-beasts emerge to abduct the sons of the people. None of them have ever been seen again. Until now.
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Fairyland: Cthulhu Dark just got Darker
In the isolated Scottish village of Cullingstone, a young girl disappears every three years. Soon after, the girls return; emotionless, analytical, and supremely intelligent. Fairyland is a Cthulhu Dark scenario, set in 1890s rural Scotland, and written by Scott Dorward.