Alex Keane

Lover of Fiction and Games

    Tag: rpg

    • Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      Lore24 Week 3 Recap

      This week I’ve continued writing about my Supernatural Social Workers setting on my Mastodon Profile. I’ve started focusing less on facts of the setting and more on creating some of the characters and organizations that exist in the setting. Like last week, I’m going to make the recap more interesting by adding photos from an…

    • Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeleton Abilities

      Rather than speaking about a specific monster in this post, I’m going to talk about the special abilities that can be added onto any monster from the Skeleton family. I wrote about the Skeleton Guard on Friday, and these abilities can be added to it to add some addiitonal diversity to your skeletons. I really…

    • Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeleton Guard

      Inspiration Today, I’m starting an undertaking that I’ve had in mind for a bit. I really like the advice given in The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for Fifth Edition, but lately I’ve been playing Pathfinder Second Edition far more than I’ve played Fifth Edition. Pathfinder has its own Bestiaries with its own monsters and…

    • Lore24 Week 1 Recap

      Lore24 Week 1 Recap

      This year, I’ve been taking part in the Lore24 challenge on my Mastodon feed. Many of the posts there will feature information about Denisete, a place I developed for a Pathfinder campaign I played through with my gaming group and that I’d love to play another game in. That’s not to say that I won’t…

    • Try the Beetle Milk by Em Quintanillo

      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…

    • Monster of the Week by Generic Games

      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…

    • Sketching the Gatewalkers

      Lately, my group has been running the Gatewalkers Adventure Path for Pathfinder Second Edition. I’ve really been enjoying the story as it’s unfolded and unravelend around them. I’ve also been trying to get in the habit of practicing drawing because sometimes I just like to make stuff. The urge to make stuff is what led…

    • Tulgey: Gyring and Gimbling in the Wabe by atelier pilcrow

      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…

    • Blazing Hymn by Peach Garden Games

      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…

    • Tulgey by Unclevova

      Tulgey by Unclevova

      Tulgey, written by Uncle Vova is an adventure for Cairn based on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It is available on Itch. Tulgey was written for the Cairn Jam A Town, A Forest, A Dungeon which ran in June 2023. Reading some reviews on Cats Have No Lord inspired me to write about one…