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04 July 2026
Capsule Reviews #10: Kala Mandala Zines
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I grabbed the set of Kala Mandala zines after the Hey Centaur shop went online . These are great zines of the old school OSR glory days - ea...
10 June 2026
Actual Play: The Hole In The Oak
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tl:dr; fun old school dungeon, menace telegraphed by the corpses of adventurers, bigger than it seems with lots of secrets that can get miss...
02 May 2026
Actual Test: Dungeons of Knock #1
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I have been using Knock #1 as my go-to resource for the Hexcrawl25 campaign - the dungeons in the "Extraordinary Excursions" secti...
08 April 2026
Review: Kala Mandala Playbook
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tl;dr: a draft system with a setting soaked into its bones; PC's as "meddlers". Light-weight and stuffed with gorgeous art. I...
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04 March 2026
Review: The Long Road Home
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tl;dr: card-draw based storyteller, potential for great pre-campaign party cohesion or post-campaign epilogues. I cannot recall where/when ...
17 December 2025
Review: Green Corridor
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tl;dr: an eco-restoration-themed map-crawler pamphlet game with some interesting resouce balancing mechanics. I looked at this as a part of...
29 November 2025
Review: Chapter Serf
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tl;dr: delightful game to play the lowliest of servants of the grimdarks mightiest warriors. This dropped on tumblr and I snatched it up, b...
08 November 2025
Review: A Home Reforged
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tl:dr; a game of dwarves delving the dark to restablish outposts; tight old-school style with some nice mechanical twists. Where did this c...
25 October 2025
Capsule Reviews #9: HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle
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Friends of the blog Swan and Raven Studio are hosting the HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid - I grabbed my copy and am facing the...
18 October 2025
Actual Play: Waking of Willoughby Hall
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tl;dr: lessons learned from bringing a good adventure to a bad open table. I did a capsule review of Waking of Willoughby Hall a while back...
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03 September 2025
Review + Actual Play: Winters Daughter
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tl:dr; fun old school dungeon with a romance-story core, solid recommend. Attronarch was selling off some adventures and I seized the oppo...
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26 July 2025
Review: Hello // Goodbye
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tl:dr; an arty zine with a range of articles, likely something inspirational for any gamer. The founder of the local DM Supergroup, also fo...
28 May 2025
Capsule Reviews #8: Recent Old School Adventures
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Attronarch was selling off some adventures and I seized the opportunity - got a bunch of the OSE classic and thought I would run them again...
05 February 2025
Review: Roguelike Megadungeon
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tl:dr; a neat dungeon creation toolbox driven by a fun buckets-of-dice-drop method I got an early access copy of this grace of the author ...
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22 September 2024
Review: Goblin Mail
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tl:dr; neat troika zine about a chaotic goblin post office - a short-ish kafka-esque run-around, drops nicely into settings or adventures. ...
28 August 2024
Review: Feather, Beak + Bone and Claw Atlas
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tl:dr; awesome map-labelling game, build a city together, perfect for a collaborative session zero. So I got Feather, Beak + Bone and the C...
15 June 2024
Actual Test: Oldskull Adventure Generator
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tl;dr: a great big adventure generator that gives you enough for even wild player side-tracks. This came into my hands through a bundle of ...
08 June 2024
Tribute to Collaborative Dungeon Creation
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tl;dr: trying to recall a genius blogpost on collaborative dungeon creation as 'forces of nature' This is an attempt to replicate a...
29 May 2024
Review: Infinigrad: The Weird City Toolkit
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tl:dr; a shiny new iteration of the go-to urban generator for Suburbs, Buildings, Guilds, Foes, Dungeons and Quests. Infinigrad: The Weird ...
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03 April 2024
Review: Stirring the Hornet's Nest at Het Thamsya
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tl:dr; evocative 25 room dungeon packed with factions, puzzles and threats set in a fantasy world centred on Southeast Asia. This comes st...
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