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First Impressions: “Fate Core” Roleplaying Game

August 22, 2013 by Bartoneus

After roughly a year with extremely limited time for roleplaying games, I was invited by a close friend to play in his newly starting modern day, Cthulhu-esque campaign using the early release Fate Core rules from the Kickstarter from Evil Hat Productions. I had heard quite a bit from Dave and other friends about the Dresden […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: cthulhu, dresden files rpg, fate, fate core, first impressions, Reviews, roleplaying game, roleplaying games

Dwarven SEAL Team Neutralizes Terrorist DM Threat: Film At 11

January 31, 2012 by Vanir

This year at DDXP, I got to try out running games for complete strangers. Little did I know what I had actually signed on for. Find out how six dwarves can make a grown man weep using only some ingenuity and a sackful of d12s.

Filed Under: Dire Flailings, Humor, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: adventuring company, battle interactive, cthulhu, D&DXP, dagon, ddxp 2012, DDXP2012, dndnext, Dwarves, lfr, living forgotten realms, minmax, ring of sympathy

Inq. of the Week: Cthulhu Who?

August 31, 2009 by Dave

I believe it is too late for me now. With each new tome I uncover, the more I find myself drawn away from my usual realm and into a realm of insanity. Are you with me?

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: coc, cthulhu, kobold quarterly, open design, yellow sign

When Horror Meets Awesome: CthulhuTech

January 2, 2009 by Bartoneus

One thing that I never really expected to see released as an official product is the melding of the Cthulhu mythos with a futuristic-anime style setting, which is exactly what CthulhuTech presents.

Filed Under: Anime, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: call of cthulhu, cthulhu, cthulhutech, horror, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games

Power Attack the Shoggoth

November 21, 2008 by Dave

As noted previously, I’m a huge fan of the d20 Call of Cthluhu book. With it, I ran my favorite campaign of all time, and the rules were exactly the level I wanted them. Except… the feat selection sucked.

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: cthulhu, d20 Call of Cthulhu, d20 system, shadows of cthulhu, true20

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