Escape the Dark Sector – Half Cocked but Fully Loaded

What a beautiful way to die – as a falling star. Of all the potential settings for horror, surely the darkest expanses of deep space are the most suffocating in their capacity for cold sweat dread. The theme that resonates most chillingly with our primal sense of terror when confronted by the unknown. The place […]

Wicked Zoot! Tainted Grail- The Fall of Avalon

The true cup of Christ or merely a grail-shaped beacon? It was twenty odd hours into our quest for the grail. Over several weeks we had sought answers to its riddle amidst the mud and blood of a sundered Avalon, scavenging for sustenance and forging a hardscrabble existence on the fringes as we reluctantly slid […]

Bootlace and Baby Oil – Power Slam! The Wrestling Card Game

“Only in America” – The phrase conjures up images of weird orange liquid cheese, dying uninsured from the heart disease invited by the consumption of weird orange liquid cheese, and of course- gurning for the camera as its forehead vein bulges wildly – the larger than life bombast of professional wrestling. There is something uniquely […]

Neurocity – Operating Manual for Spaceship 2020

When contemplating the unprecedented automated march of the 20th century, any fully realised overview must consider the extent to which the transformative technological leaps and evolutions of the past 100+ years were first coined, conceptualised and presaged in the pages of science fiction. In any telling, credence must surely be lent to these scribes as […]

Into the Pit – An Interview with the Emperors of Eternal Evil

And so it was written. As though inked by ancient scribes in a conjoined act of soothsaying and creation. A fortuitous collision at a print shop lights the touchpaper. Lightning strikes. Two disparate strands of DNA coil in tangled barbs, forming the nucleus of an eruption that would leave a fuming crater in its wake. […]

Into the Trees- The Weirding Woods of the Storymaster’s Tales

Weekends at my grandparent’s house were always coloured by the contents of their bookshelf. Amongst the dauntingly fat spines of Leon Uris and Robert Ludlum, the alluring cover art and typography of CS Lewis and the blood and horns pulp of Henry Treece sat the worn hardback spine of a 1960’s omnibus of fairy tales […]

Beneath the Missing Sea – a Tale Best Left Buried

“Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I […]

Doctor, my arse hurts

A learned treatise on the many and variegated applications of leeches as a restorative agent. I knew the patient was uncommonly afflicted the moment they set foot inside my practice. Setting down my homunculi as I turned, I was confronted with the very physical manifestation of godlessness as it seemingly wrenched and twisted the young […]

Red Box Dawn – The Ballad of Bargle

Despite being confined to quarters via hermetic seal, barred from the outside world and its plague-ridden winds, in Anno 2020 the gateway to Role Playing Games has never been wider, more gilded or more inviting. Traditional barriers to entry have been supplanted by myriad resources that for better or worse, render what was once arcane […]