With the exception of a handful of pioneering academics and specialist publications, serious critical consideration of gaming as an art form feels, to me, to be seriously lacking. Sure, it's commonly accepted that gaming is now very much mainstream, but it's pretty clear that what most people are t...
Early in 2026, Games Workshop released a new edition of Necromunda. This took a lot of players by surprise because Necromunda isn't one of the games that gets frequent updates, compared to the company's bigger games, like Warhammer 40,000. Even more intriguing was the game's new subtitle. It w...
I've been reading through the Call of Cthulhu adventure collection Mansions of Madness, Volume 1: Behind Closed Doors, and this is my review of the fourth scenario, called House of Memphis. I've reviewed Mister Corbitt, The Crack'd and Crook'd Manse, and The Code from this book. This rev...
Well, I didn't care about sky dwarves before Arkanaut, but now that I've seen the first episode I am determined to join the crew of a lead zeppelin. Arkanaut is a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar animation on WarhammerTV about Kharadron Overlords on an expedition to find loot and get paid. I was i...
Some sorority sisters hold an initiation ceremony for two new pledges, Judy and Elizabeth. The final stage of induction into the society is a game of Russian roulette. It's meant to test their bravery. Instead, it takes Elizabeth's life. Years later, the survivors are summoned for a reunion in a rem...
It can be hard to believe, but there really was a time back in the 1980s when people thought that tabletop roleplaying games (amongst other forms of media) were "satanic". Generally that's called the time of the Satanic Panic, but that only prompts further questions. What does it mean to be "satan...
In previous posts, I've deconstructed the Dungeoneer set Realm of the Ice Witch to study its setting and characters. In this post, I'm looking at its game play.
Winter frontier
In theory, it doesn't take much to establish a setting in a tilebased tabletop game. If the game takes place in...
I read All Must End, a short story by Gav Thorpe set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and this is my review of it. There are no spoilers beyond what's revealed in common online summaries of the story. If that's too much spoiler, then my totally spoiler-free recommendation is: All Must End is...
What happens if you mix horror with time travel? Well, you get Time Cut, a time traveling horror movie I watched recently. This is a review of the movie, with minor spoilers.
In Time Cut, high school student Lucy is a "replacement" daughter. She was born after her older sister, Summer, died at...
In a previous post, I reviewed the chariot racing expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar called Wasteland Death Race, published in issue 518 of White Dwarf. This is a battle report of a race, using the full set of rules (with build points and Artefacts of Power).
The game rules are basical...
One of the most fun things about wargaming is how well its scope scales. You can play literally one character in a squad as either a roleplaying game or a regimented skirmish game, you can play a whole detachment with anywhere from 10 to 100 models, or you can play with an entire regiment. Appropri...
In previous posts, I've analysed the setting and characters of the Dungeoneer set Vault of Fiends. In this post, I review the vault for its game play.
Vault of Fiends is a brutal dungeon crawl that focuses on negative effects and deadly monsters. Your job in Vault of Fiends is to avoid...
I watched Wolf Man (2025) (not to be confused with The Wolfman) and thought I'd review it. This review contains minor spoilers, but then again so does the movie's title.
This movie has what's regarded as a venerable horror movie setup: A small cast is sequestered in an isolated cabin in the wo...
The classic Curse of Strahd campaign book for 5e starts characters at Level 3, which was a thing they were doing for some reason in 5e. Recognising that most characters start at, well, Level 1, the game designers made an introductory adventure, called Death House, free to download. It's a good o...
I urged my gaming group to take the gaming survey (it's closed by now)from Questing Beast that's been making the rounds, and they did, and I also told some people who play in my games on an irregular basis to take the survey. If you took the survey, then you may recall that there's a question aski...