Reviews Review - The Between RPG A deeply atmospheric game of people with dark secrets hunting monsters in Victorian London.
Reviews Review - Jump the Shark RPG Do you remember Happy Days, with Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and all their pals in a nostalgic situation comedy back in the 1970’s? It was fun, exciting and spawned a whole generation of people
Reviews Review - One Page Howitt During the last year of COVID I’ve had the great delight of enjoying some regular Sunday night games with friends from America. We’ve played a wide range of one-shot games and playtests. Today
Reviews Review - Affinity Publisher Move over indesign, there is a new kid on the block and Affinity Publisher is better for game designers than you!
Reviews Review - The Kraken Wakes John Wyndham was a master of writing dystopia science fiction from the point of view of ordinary people. I think this is one of his finest, with elements which are directly applicable to
Reviews Barbed-wire Review - Love Letters of the Great War In these days of instant messaging, WhatsApp and texts, the pleasure of writing and receiving letters is perhaps in danger of being forgotten.
Reviews Review - Blades in the Dark Why I think Blades in the Dark is an important new design in tabletop RPG’s
Reviews Review - Metatopia 2019 Metatopia 2019 Report Metatopia is the game design festival run by Double Exposure. I was able to visit Metatopia again this year, with a different game in a different state of development. It
Reviews Review - Fate Core Description and mechanics brought together beautifully through the rules for ‘Aspects’
Reviews Review - Timewatch RPG Time travel as an RPG genre is one with infinite possibilities, but really hard to do right. For my money, Timewatch is the best example out there today, and I’m going to tell
Reviews Lonely-courage Book Review - Between Silk and Cyanide, a code makers war Leo Marks was the principal code-maker for the SOE during the war. This book which is filled with wry humour and bureaucratic frustration covers his war from 1942-45. He was considered the “one
Reviews Lonely-courage Book Review - Lonely Courage by Rick Stroud This is the true stories of seven of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. The author has taken a chronological view of events from the rise of Hitler in 1933
Reviews Metatopia 2018 What does a tiny game design company do in order to get high quality feedback on a new game they are developing? Why, go to Metatopia of course!
Reviews Innsmouth Grey Ranks - Review I had always wanted to try a ‘story game’, but was afraid to try. I didn’t think I’d have the creative wits to be any good at it, let alone enjoy it. So
Reviews Ten Candles I have come to understand that some of the very best games have mechanics which support the theme of the game in some way. For me the outstanding example of this is Ten
Reviews Book Review - 1984 So I decided to re-read 1984. I first read it about thirty years ago as a teenager, and I remember it being dreary and with a bit of horror at the end. Reading