We just wrapped up a nice long campaign of Stonetop, Jeremy Strandberg’s Iron Age community RPG being published by Lampblack & Brimstone…someday. It’s been a work-in-progress for a lot of years now. It’s getting close! Stonetop is available as a preorder on Backerkit. You get immediate access to the PDFs. I have a lot to… Continue reading Deep Dive: Stonetop
Two hours of fast-paced zero-prep fun in a really nice card game format.
This is it! We made it! These are the last three reviews from the pile of games I've been working through the past several weeks. As always, my caveat: these are reviews based on my reading, not play ... although this week, Under Hollow Hills will get a deeper treatment because I actually have played… Continue reading Under Hollow Hills, Haxen, Traveler’s Ironsworn (last of the Q1 review stack)
Okay, wow. Still drilling through this pile of games and, yeah, we're into the second quarter of the year already. But there are games to read and things to say. Let's get into it. Reminder that these are read-only reviews I'm doing! I haven't gotten to play these games so they're not deep technical dives.… Continue reading Q1 Reviews (Part 3, halfway there)
Another chapter of using Starforged as a fiction oracle. Things are getting weird! Lots of exploration but I'm getting itchy to start seeing some meaningful conflict appear. Start from the Prologue if you want to read from the beginning. Quickly revisiting the mechanics Now that I have a better grasp of the relationship between pacing… Continue reading Echo Sedano 5
