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Posted by Steve Darlington on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Does setting matter? Many of our tactical, abstracted Euro-gamer friends would disagree. They have a point: Settlers of Catan would be the same if it was about settling a new planet, but had exactly the same mechanics. But on the other hand, would chess be as popular today if instead of imitating warfare, the pieces [...]

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Snows of an Early Winter

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

In Snows of an Early Winter, the latest Call of Cthulhu scenario from Super Genius Games, the investigators are pulled into a series of mysterious events in modern day New York. While the rest of the city prepares for the Halloween festivities and fetes the visit of the President, someone is slaughtering animals, members of [...]

Madness in London Town

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Age of Cthulhu Vol. II: Madness in London Town is the second scenario to be released by Goodman Games for Call of Cthulhu, the RPG of Lovecraftian horror published by Chaosium, Inc. It follows the first scenario, Death in Luxor, set in the same shared world of the late 1920s. Possessing the same high [...]

CORTEX System Role Playing Game

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

The CORTEX System Role Playing Game is a set of generic rules first seen in the Serenity RPG, and since used in the Battlestar Galactica and Demon Hunter RPGs, and the recently released Supernatural RPG. It comes complete, bar the dice, and is designed to handle most genres short of the more fantastic – so [...]

Gambit 7

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Here is a question for you. “In Tolkien’s The Hobbit, how many members of Thorin’s party was Gandalf trying to avoid having when he recruited that well known thief, Mr. Bilbo Baggins?” If you know the answer, then all well and good, because it will earn you points. If not, there is no need to [...]