Category: Reviews
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Storm of Magic by Cassie Greutman
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Jayla Nofsky is a rookie officer with the LAPD whose life is changed when a call she responds to turns out to involve the fae who have recently appeared in the modern world. I like the buddy cop interaction between…
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Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
I really enjoyed this book. I expected that going in, given how much I enjoyed John Wiswell’s short story Open House on Haunted Hill. Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster, more an amorphous carnivorous blob, who gets woken up from their hibernation by a group of monster hunters. Shesheshen repels them then sneaks into town to…
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Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
This was not my first time reading Three Parts Dead. In fact, I pre-ordered it when it first came out and read it then. Max Gladstone just released the second book of a sequel series to the original Craft Sequence books and in getting ready to read the Craft Wars books, I decided to go…
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Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral
I really enjoyed reading Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral. I think I got it on some sort of sale, based on reading the premise of “janitor robot must protect human baby while wandering though the wasteland of the AI Uprising Apocalypse”. Premise That quick statement is basically the entire premise and plot of the book.…
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Protect The Child Playtest by Mint Rabbit
Last night, I got a couple of my players together to try Protect the Child, a game by Mint Rabbit who you may also have come across as the person behind There’s a TTRPG for That on Tumblr. Premise The basic premise behind Protect the Child is that everyone in the party is a monster.…
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Try the Beetle Milk by Em Quintanillo
On Christmas, as we were getting food ready at my in-laws, my wife brought me a package that had arrived at our mailbox. That package contained my copy of Try the Beetle Milk, an adventure written for Cairn by Em Quintanillo. I’d bought the adventure a while back, and had read it on my tablet…
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Monster of the Week by Generic Games
I realized this week that I’ve never written anything here about one of my favorite RPGs that I’ve played in the last couple years. Monster of the Week is a game which tries to emulate the tropes you would see in a “Monster of the Week” show like The X-Files or Buffy the Vampire Slayer…
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A Murder of Mages by Marshall Ryan Maresca
I recently read A Murder of Mages by Marshall Ryan Maresca. A Murder of Mages is the second book in Maresca’s Maradaine Saga and the first book of the Maradaine Constabulary sub-series within the saga. Maresca is one of the co-hosts of the Worldbuilding for Masochists podcast. The podcast is where I first encountered Maresca’s…
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Tulgey: Gyring and Gimbling in the Wabe by atelier pilcrow
I’ve written previously about Tulgey by atelier pilcrow, formerly called Uncle Vova. In appreciation for an early kind word, the author sent me a copy of the second installment. As I said before, I really enjoy the specific brand of non-sensical fantasy that goes into these adventures. The Alice stories were one of the first…
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Blazing Hymn by Peach Garden Games
Sometimes, you’re looking for a game that scratches a specific itch in terms of genres and tropes at play. Sometimes you get even luckier and a game designer has had the same itch you have and that game already exists for you to find. That’s the experience I had reading through Blazing Hymn by Peach…