Tag: reviews
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a TV show that focuses on a journalist, who investigates crimes with unlikely causes, which often involves paranormal or strange entities. While Karl often never gets to release his stories or gets what he wants, the use of horror themes blended with comedy and excellent investigative work is a great…
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Cults of Cthulhu: Humanising Cosmic Horror.
Cults of Cthulhu has everything a Keeper needs to use cults in a Call of Cthulhu game. It includes 5 fully realised Cthulhu cults, a method of creating your own, and a thorough background in the history and lore of the Cthulhu Cult.
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Movie Review: Glorious (2022)
Sometimes in horror, less is more when it comes to increasing the stakes. Having too many characters can add too much clutter to the story and reduce the depth of emotions and character you can explore with characters. While yes, this doesn’t fit every story, sometimes horror works when it focuses on just one character,…
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Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa: Love and Death in the Hyades.
Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa is a solo campaign set in Carcosa, the mysterious city ruled by The King in Yellow. Intended for use with Call of Cthulhu 7th edition rules, it can also be run one-on-one with a Keeper and player.
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Nameless Horrors
Nameless Horrors is a shoulder-launched missile, not in the sense that it’s deadly (although it is), but in its capacity to blow your players’ minds
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The Yellow Book of Brechewold
If Harry Potter did shrooms with Professor Dumbledore, this is what Hogwarts would probably look like.
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The Fall of the House of Usher: Love, Fate and Murder.
A modern-day reimagining of a gothic horror classic, with teeth.
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All Dogs go to Hell
A short, pay-what-you want adventure for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
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The Art of Hygge
This one-shot will leave the investigators with more questions than answers, and could serve as an ideal springboard for further investigations of an antagonist with some serious plot potential.
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Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess: review.
A short adventure for Lamentations of the Flame princess that’s blends campy humour and high-grade horror.
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Trophy Dark: Treasure, Glory, and Betrayal.
Trophy Dark is an award-winning fantasy game that creates haunting horror stories set in a hostile world.
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The Mayhemic Missile Method: Controlled Chaos.
216 versions of the magic missile spell, sure to inject chaos, horror and, yes, hilarity to the table. The Mayhemic Missile Method is a resource for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess Core Rulebook: Weird fantasy horror roleplaying.
The core rules for Lamentations of the Flame Princess; an old-school DnD game for grown-ups.
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Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors
Not a game resource so much as a coffee-table book, but a surprisingly funny one.
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Fear’s Sharp Little Needles: The Human Face of the Mythos.
26 short and not-so sweet scenarios for modern-day Call of Cthulhu investigations.