Refereeing and Reflection

Atlas Games seem to be in the process of evergreening Ars Magica.

The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritance from the original 1983 release of Warhammer, which somewhat muddied the waters between wargame and roleplaying game before Games Workshop

A while back I covered the first wave of products for Free League’s Blade Runner RPG – based off the Year Zero engine which originated in their Mutant: Year Zero RPG and which also powers their Alien game.

Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise.

Time for another check-in on a selection of RPG supplements that have caught my eye of late.

I’ve previously waxed enthusiastic on here about Mothership, having been very pleased with my hauls from Tuesday Knight Games’ Kickstarter for the 1st edition boxed set and supporting material and Anodyne Printworks’ Hull Breach Kickstarter for more suppl…

Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures RPG celebrated its 10th anniversary recently, making it the longest-lasting Star Trek RPG by a comfortable margin (unless you count the weird little oddity which is Prime Directive), and with its supplement range still going

As I noted when I reviewed it a while back, Modiphius’ second edition of Star Trek Adventures is largely a tune-up to the first edition – to the point where they are putting about the idea that they’re so compatible you can largely drag and drop supplemen…

Following in the wake of their Kickstarters to put out special archival rereleases of old RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu material, Chaosium have done the same for Elfquest.

I’ve just put out a review of various Star Trek: Lower Decks spin-off publications over on my books-movies-and-TV blog, one of which may have crossover appeal to regular readers here – that’s Warp Your Own Way, a choose-your-own-adventure gamebook in grap…

Shannon Appelcline has cultivated a bit of a career as an RPG historian, producing material which is less academic than Jon Peterson’s Playing At the World, The Elusive Shift, or Game Wizards whilst casting a wider net than Ben Riggs’ Slaying the Dragon.