This month’s See Page XX has a distinct Apocalyptic feel to it. Firstly we have the Apocalypse Competition to celebrate the release of The Dead White World. Next we have an article on the forthcoming stand-alone, post-apocalyptic game Razed by Will Hindmarch. Nathan Russell is the author of The Fallout, a post-apocalyptic, Mad-Max-esque playset for […]
by Kenneth Hite The Cold War? Over. The War on Terror? Over. For you. You used to uncover secrets, or maybe kill to keep them. You used to serve your country in the shadows, doing things – or stopping things – that couldn’t be shown in daylight or on the evening news. Then you stopped. […]
by Will Hindmarch Apocalyptic tales pit us—all of us, as a people—against great and terrible threats. Razed, which is as apocalyptic as it is post-apocalyptic, is about characters living through hellacious times, facing the end of a known world and the imposition of something new, something alien, something frightening and mysterious. It’s about how we […]
by Robin D. Laws It’s not true that there’s one in every group. But when there’s one in your group, it sure feels like there is. I’m talking about That Guy. The overbearing, dysfunctional participant who dominates the room and sucks the fun from the game. He hogs the spotlight. He turns every discussion in […]
by Robin D. Laws In response to a previous installment of this column, mxyzplk writes: My group hasn’t gotten around to playing GUMSHOE yet despite me owning several of the books, but we have played games with somewhat similar mechanics before, and it seems like it runs the risk of either a) hoarding points or […]
by Nathan Russell [Editor’s note: Fiasco is a roleplaying game designed by Jason Morningstar, writer of The Black Drop and the forthcoming Many Fires.] Fiasco is a game about powerful ambition and poor impulse control. It’s designed to help players make their own Coen brothers movie in about the time it would take to watch […]
Whether it’s death by flowers, by aliens, or by the final stutters of the moribund sun, this issue features the dying days of the Earth in multiple guises. And yet, I am feeling rather upbeat, because this means the release of the first part of the epic Cthulhu Apolcalypse, that The Dying Earth returns and […]
The Bookhounds of London Limited Edition is now SOLD OUT The Lovecraftian London Limited Edition is available to all comers, from the store, shipping 1st June. There are nine copies left as of this post. Perhaps now might be a good time to mention that the first section of Cthulhu Apocalypse and the non-limited edition […]
In celebration of the release of The Dead White World, the first three scenarios of Cthulhu Apocalypse, author Graham Walmsley has put together a fantastic competition with the chance to win a numbered list of thirteen works of postapocalyptic fiction. All you have to do is figure out which book relates to which symbol. Subtle […]
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