
Posted on December 15, 2020
All Hat, No Cattle
by grondl
When Jen’s phone light fell on the form of a large, muscular, bare-chested man with a bull’s head, you might think she stumbled into a cut scene from Eyes Wide Shut, but you’d be wrong. Like, really wrong…. Read More
Category: Monster of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tags: #MOTW

Posted on November 30, 2020
Be Vewy Qwiet, We’ew Hunting Monstews
by grondl
Things have taken a turn of the Supernatural/Buffy/X-Files variety as we waded into the Powered by the Apocalypse game Monster of the Week. Our group of monster hunters are as follows: Demington, The Chosen (played by Ben), is… Read More
Category: Roleplaying Games Tags: Monster of the Week

Posted on August 4, 2020
It’s been a while…
by Desfaber
Normally I’d have littered this blog with all of my gushing excitement over the next game I was about to run: and believe me, my excitement for Legend of The Five Rings is still torrential. But this whole… Read More
Category: Boardgames, Numenera, PC Games, Roleplaying Games Tags: Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Jeff Goldblum, L5R, MOTW, Paranoia
Posted on March 29, 2020
L5R: Family Matters
by Desfaber
Welp, I’ve got plenty of time to sit around thinking about Legend of the Five Rings RPG now… After ingesting the fluff and checking out the game mechanics, I got into looking at what makes the characters work… Read More
Category: Roleplaying Games Tags: The Legend of the Five Rings

Posted on March 11, 2020
Rokugan on my mind
by Desfaber
Way back in 2018 I mentioned that I was excited about all the games that I was fixing to play or that were headed my way. I was VERY excited about The Stars Are Fire, because I was… Read More
Category: Roleplaying Games Tags: L5R
Posted on February 7, 2020
Numenera 2: Out into the world.
by Desfaber
Scene: The handsome man grabs the oversized metallic hand before the knife fingers can slash his throat. With a twist of his hips and a powerful yank, the arm detaches from the cybernetic humanoid who reels back in… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Numenera, recap
Posted on December 9, 2019
Numenera 2: Art Inspiration
by Desfaber
Bryce wanted me to check to see if the website migration had worked, so rather than get stuck into a recap that may never materialize, I thought I’d post a few links to art stuff that I’d been… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: art, Numenera
Posted on November 19, 2019
Numenera 2: Meet the Crew
by Desfaber
The character creation process in Numenera (both iterations) does a great job of providing prompts for character motivation and connections. In the last campaign most people picked those up and ran with them, while Bryce didn’t care too… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Numenera
Posted on November 5, 2019
Numenera 2: The Quiet Year of Lone Makhtesh
by Desfaber
Before The Bright Ones came, the people of your community struggle to remember that they lived very different lives. They had their own communities, their own families and friends. They had their own trades and professions, religions and… Read More
Category: Dodecaheathen Laboratories, Numenera, Roleplaying Games, Story Games Tags: Numenera, Story Games, The Quiet Year
Posted on September 9, 2019
The Cardassian Checkmate, 1.4
by Desfaber
Well that was certainly an exciting episode last night, despite the reduced crew. Cardassians are one of my favourite villains, because they’re just so fucking arch. Suffice it to say that the outcome of last night’s rash decision… Read More
Category: Qapla', Roleplaying Games Tags: Star Trek Adventures