Oak Pasture and ZineMonth 2022
3. March 2022
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Review of Midgard Worldbook
Midgard comes around with some nice ideas and definitely hits the High Fantasy track of DnD 5e. Dark Fantasy is correct depending on your own assessment, as the Dark aspect sometimes shines through stronger and weaker. It is definitely a world of conflict and possible adventure. What would have helped Midgard a bit more would have been a clearer identity, which distinguishes itself a bit more from the generic setting and its many references to existing competing products and real world examples.
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When the Wolf Comes – Shadow of the Demonlord meets Vikings
With the Vikingverse, Ian Stuart Sharpe has raised the question, “What if the Vikings had won?” Ian Stuart Sharpe has written two novels about the Vikingverse, The All Father Paradox and Loki’s Wager, as...
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Review of the Norse DnD 5e Adventure “Freya’s Tears”
Dark Clouds are closing in, the soil has turned to rot, and the dead are rising as draugrs. Hel followers are building up their strength to invade Svilland on the sly. The land of the living is on the edge of demise. However, a warband of brave warriors discovers the threat and takes a stand against the followers of Hel in the name of Freya. Svillanders, it is up to you to save your land from the dead! […] The warband will start at a small village and end their adventure in the cold pits of Helheim; the land of the deadliest horrors. On the way, they will come across desecrated temples and cleanse them, play a part in political conflicts, visit many cities and towns of Svilland and travel through its dangerous wilderness. As such, Freya’s Tears is designed for players to experience the majesty of Svilland to the full.
Publications
Bundle of 2020 Releases
6. December 2020
Summoner now on the DMs Guild!
5. October 2020
Designer Notes on the Summoner
28. September 2020
The Summoner– An old classic revisited for DnD 5e
21. September 2020
Fate-Seeker now on the DMs Guild!
10. September 2020
Designer Notes on the Fate Seeker
8. September 2020
Fate-Seeker — A new cardbased spellcaster for DnD 5e
3. September 2020
Phoenix Soul Sorcerer Revised goes Copper!
8. March 2020
Devil Fruits – Using the powers of evil never tasted this sweet
29. January 2020
Vampire Soul Sorcerer | Publication on DMs Guild
19. October 2019
A hand-drawn world map | Publication on DMs Guild
4. October 2019
TTRPG Reviews
Review of Midgard Worldbook
8. October 2022
Midgard comes around with some nice ideas and definitely hits the High Fantasy track of DnD 5e. Dark Fantasy is correct depending on your own assessment, as the Dark aspect…
Review of the Norse DnD 5e Adventure “Freya’s Tears”
4. June 2022
Dark Clouds are closing in, the soil has turned to rot, and the dead are rising as draugrs. Hel followers are building up their strength to invade Svilland on the…
Review of Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom
20. May 2022
Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom tells the story, even in the book, through the core and major characters of the plot surrounding the summer curse that holds the land in…
Review of Legends of Avallen – a celtic inspired Roleplaying Game
28. March 2022
When I started reading the work, I was skeptical. I didn’t know what to expect and the core rules sounded unfamiliar and also tough. However, the more I dug into…
Review of Beyond the Wall – Further Afield
4. December 2021
In the expansion volume of Beyond the Wall, our heroines are not only drawn behind the walls of the village, but into the far distance. The goal is to explore…
Review of Arium: Discover
20. November 2021
objects of the world. We can now use one of the created characters from Arium: Create or create our own character to play in this self-created world.
Review of Neon City Overdrive
5. November 2021
At its core, Neon City Overdrive wants to be a science fiction / cyberpunk game that sets a dark and dystopian tone. The author cites Akira, Altered Carbon, Blade Runner,…
Review of ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG
10. September 2021
ARC is a rules-light but atmospheric role-playing game. The core of ARC is a doom that can take place on a personal level or plunge the entire world into the…
Review of Mausritter
13. August 2021
In Mausritter the players take on the role of little knights in a large and dangerous world. In Mausritter, magic is dangerous, beasts are powerful and the lands are wondrous….
Review of Paris Gondo – The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying
30. July 2021
The game pays homage to rules regarding a character’s carrying capacity as well as other tropes that arise in games involving dungeons or dungeon crawling. The game itself is gm-less…
Played: Descent into Avernus (DnD 5e)
16. July 2021
Descent Into Avernus is a scavenger hunt in the true Railroad sense. It’s less about linear storytelling and more about chasing the story through dungeon crawls.
Review of Tricube Tales
2. July 2021
Tricube Tales is a small generic role-playing game that allows us to create a character in a few minutes and just start playing. The setting or genre is neither predetermined…
Played: Storm King’s Thunder (DnD 5e)
18. June 2021
Queen Neri has been murdered and it looks like the small people are responsible. At the same time, Annam, the all-father of the giants, has broken the order of the…
Review of Trophy Dark
17. February 2021
Trophy Dark is a horror storytelling game where the players are treasure hunters and set off to a dangerous place (abstractly called the forest, although it can also be a…
Review of Ten Candles
25. November 2020
In Ten Candles, the entire group tells a tragic horror story. A story of hope but also of a world before its end. Why together? Because the players and the…
Review of Arium: Create
4. November 2020
On 52 pages, the principle of Arium:Create is explained in detail. The authors emphasize that it is a collaborative process and that we are building an Arium by mutual agreement….
Review of Shadow of the Demon Lord
31. January 2020
If you’re up for a dark world like Warhammer’s, but prefer to roll d20 instead of d100 and want to be able to do something with your character, you might…
Review of Tales from the Loop
29. December 2019
Tales from the Loop is perfect for immersing yourself in a world and our past, which is a bit different. A world without magic, where our heroes are normal teenagers,…
Review of Beyond the Wall and other Adventures
20. September 2019
Until today new retro clones are published and Beyond the Wall is one of those systems with a firm grip on the OSR tradition. Beyond the Wall solves some aspects…
Comic Impressions
Isola, a stunning piece of art
1. April 2021
Isola is an atmospheric and beautifully illustrated comic by Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl. We learn quite quickly that the Queen of Maar, Olwyn, has been cursed into a tiger…
