Immanentising the Eschaton

It is a particularly human quirk that throughout all of history it seems that every successive generation has been convinced that it is they who stand teetering on the cusp of the Apocalypse – they who have been chosen to bear witness to the fall. Our endless fascination with death and our subconscious lust for […]

Nexus Infernum Ascends in Blasphemy

Baleful chants rise stentorian from the most tenebrous chambers of a shadowed and decrepit underworld. Skeletal minions clash desperately amidst showers of sparks – spat in arcing divinity from queer arcane gateways. Demonic pacts are forged at terrible cost with ravenous pantheons. And straddling the furnace to harness it all – necromantic sages pit their […]

WET GRANDPA- SOMETHING STIRS UPSTREAM

As the party descended further into the murky confines of the labyrinth, a T-junction splayed before them to posit a banal binary fork. In the flickering glow of their torchlight, the party bickered arbitrarily until the tell-tale yelp of the goblin commander announced a malicious presence and the PC’s reflexively reached for their side-arms. “Roll […]

It’s a Knife! It’s a Tank! It has Umlauts! It’s KnifeTank: The Shüffling

Are you tired of sprawling games crowding your shelf and your psyche? Are you even more weary of games that squander the opportunity to add awesome superfluous umlauts to their title suffixes? Then mister, have I got a game for you. It slices, it dices, it fits right in your pocket. It has more borderline […]

Death Robot Dungeon Bastards- The LP as Game

It was only a matter of time until the parallel revivals of all things analogue collided. In an age of the digital, ephemeral and disposable, the reactionary embrace of physical media has seen both the Tabletop and Vinyl Record scenes come spiralling back into prominence as people seek to reclaim a sense of ownership and […]

Mutants & Mullets- Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland

If the neon smear aesthetic and outrageous neoliberal excess of the 1980’s are perhaps too oft romanticised it is perhaps because in truth they represent the last decade we are able to compartmentalise as a neat universal cultural touchstone. Before the arch irony of the 1990’s and the post millennial splintering of the monoculture into […]

FEROX- Flesh Ripping Ludic Torment

Before the spine ripping evolution of video games usurped their place in the pantheon, it was VHS video nasties that- along with Heavy Metal Music and Dungeons & Dragons- formed the third pillar of pernicious influence most often charged with corrupting the nation’s youth and keeping Mary Whitehouse awake at night. Untethered from the need […]

SUNKEN-AN RPG OF NAUTICAL HORRORS

“The blessing of land is that nothing else can exist within its mass. The earth’s denizens may grow upon and disembowel caverns within it, always with the safety of knowing that the solidity of terra firma itself can hold no threat or mystery. With one’s back to the wall, there remains a wall to back […]

Under the Sign of the Black Mark- MÖRK BORG’s twin basilisks speak

In its impassioned embrace of equal parts ‘return to roots’ simplicity and psychedelic predilection for unbridled esoteric weirdness, the old school renaissance (or OSR) has gifted the world of tabletop RPG’s with one of its most fertile and exciting periods in decades. As the phenomenon of role playing continues to make inroads into the mainstream, […]