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My review of the Curseborne manuscript

    I remember when I first bought a copy of Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition and that was my introduction to Onyx Path Publishing. I was late to the party by several years at that point but was interested in several of their books like a re-writing of the Tal'Mah'Re AKA The Black Hand, their Anarchs Unbound book, and later Beckett's Jyhad Diary. The last of which I consider to be one of the all-time best game supplements ever written. 

    Later, I would become a fan of their wor...

The Penguin (2024) review

    THE PENGUIN is a spinoff series from thewell-received but not-gangbusters success of the Robert Pattinson 2022 THEBATMAN movie. I really liked that film for being the grittiest, most realisticBatman movie yet but that’s a reason why plenty of other audiences were tepidabout it. Honestly, it felt more like an HBO miniseries than a typical Batmanfilm and the irony wasn’t lost on me when they announced Colin Farrell asgetting his own.

    Still, that just added to the sense of oddity ...

101 Curseborne Adventure Hooks

1. The player characters are invited to a party being hosted by a Dead Elder that gradually degenerates to an orgiastic celebration. This would be fine for most Accursed if not for the fact it then becomes violent to the mortals invited too.

2. See #1, worse, it's the Champagne Room and they're trapped in a living horror.

3. A factory has been opened in the area and is reviving the area's economy and reducing crime. That's because everyone who goes in is transformed into a P-Borg and the community...

Brighteyes, Book 2 of the Morgan Detective Agency, is now available!

Hey folks,

I'm pleased to announce that BRIGHT EYES, the second MORGAN DETECTIVE AGENCY novel and 12th novel of the UNITED STATES OF MONSTERS series is now available on Kindle as well as paperback.

The United States of Monsters books are a collection of urban fantasy novels all set in the same world where the supernatural was revealed to the world in 2008 and society has been catching up ever since. Vampires, slashers, werewolves, weredeer, and more all struggle to integrate with a human race tha...

Ten Curseborne reactions from a longtime WOD fan

 
Hey folks,

I just finished my read through of Curseborne's manuscript and being the longtime fan(atic) of the World of Darkness I am, I thought I'd share ten thoughts as my initial reaction. Overall, I really like it and think that it'll probably be my World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness substitute even if it's very distinct.

1. It is a lot easier to run mixed groups

One of the persistent struggles of World of Darkness was the fact that all of the gamelines might as well have been separate. V...

The Books That Made Me - The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

*Fnord* You are reading a silly review *Fnord*

    This is a book trilogy that would mock me for saying that it helped shaped my political and social ideology as well as attitude about sex. This book also helped shape my political and social ideology as well as attitude about sex. ILLUMINATUS! takes the Right Wing racist conspiracy theories of the 1970s (and today) then proceeds to skewer them with a ruthlessness that Mel Brooks would envy. HP Lovecraft, anarchism, James Bond, Captain Nemo...

Shadowrun: Never Deal with a Dragon by Robert N. Charrette review

    NEVER DEAL WITH A DRAGON by Robert N. Charrette is the first Shadowrun novel and the first volume of the Secrets of Power trilogy. It is our first introduction to Shadowrun from the literary side of things and if you’ve never played the game, Shadowrun is a cyberpunk fantasy where magic returned to the Earth in 2012. Huge chunks of humanity were mutated into races like elves, dwarves, orcs, and trolls. If that sounds silly, it is. If that sounds awesome, it is. If you’re a person who ...

Lords of Dragon Keep is free from October 17-20

 

Book Giveaway

Hey folks,

I am incredibly happy to share the news that LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP, the first book of the Dark Undermaster Saga is going to be free for the next three days (October 17th to 20th). If you wanted to pick up a copy of the hilarious story of a guy getting dumped into a Witcher/Game Of Thrones-esque universe and doing his best to do a Paragon run while increasing his stats D&D style (which makes him an utter monster) then this is the book for you. Laughs galore. The sequel is a...

The World of Critical Role by Liz Marsham review

    THE WORLD OF CRITICAL ROLE is a nonfiction book that chronicles the creation of the Critical Role Twitch stream that has since exploded into a massively successful multimedia franchise that includes comics as well as animated cartoons. In a very real way, it contributed to the massive successful of 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons as well as led to a slew of imitators for everything from Call of Cthulhu to Shadowrun.

    The origin of Critical Role was Felicia Day convincing Matt Mercer...

Space Academy Miscreants (Space Academy #4) now available for preorder!

 

NOW AVAILABLE FOR AUDIOBOOK PREORDER!

SPACE ACADEMY MISCREANTS (Space Academy #4)

“Captain’s log… we’re doomed.”

Captain Vance Turbo of the E.S.S Ares has managed to save the entire universe and gotten himself a big fat promotion for it. However, that doesn’t mean much as he’s just received a message that his daughter is in peril! His daughter that he didn’t know about because she was cooked up in a lab by his ex-girlfriend. Knowing he can’t take his ship on a personal vendetta, Vance dec...