After having the Cyberpunk Red – Core Rulebook in my possession since 2021, I have finally got a full campaign of the game going. In that time I have read the book cover to cover multiple times preparing for one-shots that never happened, and reading each book that R. Talsorian put out to review for…
Tabletop Review – Delta Green – Night at the Opera/Impossible Landscapes (Arc Dream Publishing)
For this week’s tabletop review let’s discuss Arc Dream’s Delta Green RPG, before segueing into 2 important supplements for the RPG the module collection “Night at the Opera” and the King in Yellow inspired campaign “Impossible Landscapes”. Delta Green took life as a Call of Cthulhu setting designed by John Scott Tynes, Adam Scott Glancy,…
Tabletop Review – Old School Essentials (Necrotic Gnome/Exalted Funeral)
I started playing RPG’s due to the influence of the mid 80’s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I remember finding out swiftly after watching that it was based on a game, less swiftly was I able to secure a copy of the game itself. I don’t exactly remember the exact time-frame between seeing the cartoon on…
Tabletop Review – Meeples and Monsters(AEG)
Meeples & Monsters, a game by Ole Steiness from AEG Reviewed by Ryan Miller When Meeples & Monsters was originally described to me, words like “deck” and “building” were pasted together with the word “game” to form a strange Frankenstein’s Monster that I could not escape in my head. While I’m thankful that my active…
Tabletop Review – Ahoy! – Leder Games
Since pirates are almost always in fashion, I reveled in the chance to play Leder Games’ new entry into asymmetric board gaming. Right off the bat it has a lot going for it. 1. It has pirates. 2. It has anthropomorphic pirates. Those two things are always a fun combination. It of course helps that…
Tabletop Review – Cyberpunk Red – Black Chrome – R. Talsorian Games
Cyberpunk Red came out at the perfect time for me, after 20 years of not playing table top RPG’s and board games, I got back in with a vengeance. I immediately got back into my old standards like Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, took a look at Shadowrun, but that look was brief, and…
Tabletop Review – Traveller – High Guard Update 2022 – Mongoose Publishing
I am currently obsessed with Mongoose Traveller 2E. I’d say this is odd, because I’ve run the system at this point one time, but I think that nails it, I’m hungering to play it more. The system which was created in the late 70’s as a science fiction response to D&D by legendary game designer…
Point Salad [Tabletop Review]
Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) brings to the table a fun, little card-drafting game that’s quick and easy to learn but with a depth of strategy that provides lots of replay value. First let’s break down the basic stats on it. Number of players: 2 – 6 (The game provides instructions to adjust the number of…
Tabletop Review – Tales of the Red : Street Stories – (R. Talsorian Games)
Cyberpunk Red has been out for 3 years, and the book I’ve been waiting for has arrived (OK, well one of them haha). Tales of the Red – Street Stories is a compilation of 9 short modules for Cyberpunk Red. These for the most part can be run in 1-2 sessions each (the first one…
Tabletop Review – A Time to Harvest/Cults of Cthulhu – Chaosium
Chaosium has in recent months issued 2 new books for the Call of Cthulhu RPG, the sourcebook Cults of Cthulhu and the full length campaign A Time to Harvest. A Time to Harvest came at a great time, as I am currently wrapping up a Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign with my group, and trying to…