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101+ Dark Sun adventure hooks

101+ Dungeons and Dragons headcanon 101+ Planescape adventure hooks101+ Dark Sun adventure hooks

    Dark Sun is a deeply underappreciated gameline and the fact that Hasbro has decided not to continue the setting is a great disappointment. It was a planetary romance akin to Barsoom at its most beautiful and like Mad Max at its worst. It's a post-apocalypse setting where the world has been ravaged by destructive magic and ruled by evil sorcerer kings. There are no gods because they are either dead...

101+ Planescape Adventure Hooks

101+ Dungeons and Dragons headcanon 101+ Planescape adventure hooks101+ Dark Sun adventure hooks

    I'm a huge Planescape fan but coming up with adventures for it has always been something of a pain in the ass. So I decided to try to make a bunch of ideas for the setting, berk. If you have the time, feel free to add your own or give any feedback!

1. A young girl is kidnapped by a group of magically grafted individuals and the player characters are hired to get her back. They actually are f...

101 Planescape Adventure Hooks

I'm a huge Planescape fan but coming up with adventures for it has always been something of a pain in the ass. So I decided to try to make a bunch of ideas for the setting, berk. If you have the time, feel free to add your own or give any feedback!

1. A young girl is kidnapped by a group of magically grafted individuals and the player characters are hired to get her back. They actually are from a world where psionics and artificers reign and are collecting her as "spare parts" for their a...

Ten Recommended Ravenloft Novels

Ravenloft remains one of the greatest of Dungeons and Dragons settings. The original module written by Laura and Tracy Hickman was the first real stepping out of the game’s comfort zone and has made Barovia remained a popular campaign setting ever with Curse of Strahd being arguably the most popular 5th Edition product since unless we’re counting Critical Role’s Tal’Dorei as a whole.

Ravenloft wasn’t just limited to the domain of Strahd Von Zarovich, tho...

Baldur's Gate 3 review

“Not quite as amazing as reviewers claim. Still, a fantastic RPG and a nostalgia trip for Dungeons and Dragons kids of the Nineties.”

    I explained to my niece that Baldur’s Gate was a generational game. Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadow of Amn was created in 2000 when I was her age. The Enhanced Edition updated the original classic game and Siege of Dragonspear added an interquel in 2016. However, creating a full-fledged sequel to a twenty-year-old game was something that I thought was a risk even wi...

Series Retrospective: The Prism Pentad by Troy Denning review

Magic…Magic Never Changes.

Warning – This article will include spoilers for The Verdant Passage.

    Growing up in the Nineties, I think I read something akin to two hundred Dungeons and Dragons novels produced by TSR. If that sounds like an excessive or unlikely number, I should note there’s over one hundred and ninety Dragonlance novels alone and that doesn’t include four hundred Forgotten Realms novels or twenty-two Ravenloft ones.

    No, I didn’t read anywhere near all of them but it wa...

Moon Cops on the Moon is now available on Kindle

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Robocop: Rogue City review

    ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY is a first-person shooter developed by Teyon and published by Nacon. It also stars Peter Weller, the original Robocop, as the titular character. As the resident cyberpunk junkie of the site as well as a longtime fan of the franchise, this was obviously going to be a day one purchase for me. However, it came with the sweeping sense of dread that can only come from the fact that Robocop has a history of truly awful sequels and bad adaptations. 

    There's just not that many...

Marlowe (2022) review

    MARLOWE (2022) is a movie that reminds me that we probably should have more Raymond Chandler adaptations. There's nothing that will probably ever match THE BIG SLEEP starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and there's been an adaptation of most of his novels of varying quality but I wish we'd get a kind of Poroit or Holmes-esque series of adaptations with one singular actor. Phillip Marlowe is the archetypal private detective alongside Sam Spade and even if you've never read or watched on...

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review

    There’s also some “radiant quests” that pop up in the game as well with the option of stealing cars for El Capitain as well as raiding supply drops for the Barghests. These are the kind of quests you have in Grand Theft Auto and The Division but add a lot of fun. Certainly, stealing cars and being chased by enemies makes it so the addition of vehicular combat rules in Update 2.0 isn’t completely worthwhile. There’s also the addition of the “Relic” perk tree that gives you a large numb...