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WTF, D&D: Celebrate the Brexit with Cyberpunk 2020: Eurosource

With Old Blighty casting off from the European Union, it’s a great time to reminisce about European fantasies of the pre-EU era. Cyberpunk 2020’s Eurosource sourcebook was released only a couple years before the EU was formed in 1992, but the writing was on the wall that a European unification was coming. That makes what the…

WTF, D&D: The Supreme Weirdness of the Warhammer 40,000: Compendium (1989)

The red-covered Compendium was the first major release from Games Workshop to follow 1987’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. The book compiled some new material with things that had previously been printed in the pages of GW’s Warhammer magazine White Dwarf. If the original rule book painted a broad portrait of a wild and intensely strange universe…

WTF, D&D: Rifts World Book 26: Dinosaur Swamp

If Rifts were a place, it would be Florida. And Rifts has decided that if Florida were in Rifts, it would be a Dinosaur Swamp. Because of course it would be. Join us as we get in our giant fan boat and buzz through Rifts World Book 26: Dinosaur Swamp. Along the way we’ll meet…

WTF, D&D: Nth Man: Civil War Part 2

Captain America: Civil War battled its way to a second straight week of box office dominance. The epic story of Cap and Bucky and Spidey, Vizzy, the notorious I-man, Antso, Widsy Blacks, Panthy Blacks, I-man black, Birdy, Witchy, and Birdy 2 has been easily winning audiences. In our version of the Civil War, obscure Marvel…

WTF, D&D: Nth Man: Civil War

Tapping movies and books for adventure ideas is a time-tested method for game masters running low on ideas of their own. With Captain America: Civil War waging a war of northern aggression on the box office, we delve into the comic movie reality with the help of the movie trailer and the Marvel Superheroes RPG…

WTF, D&D: Magic: The Gathering’s “The Dark” (1994)

We covered the original Magic the Gathering cards and the “Arabian Nights” set over on Something Awful, now we turn our attention to 1994’s “The Dark” expansion set. This set delved into the gloom of darkness, adding the word “shadow” before various monsters and the set included numerous goblins, witches, and bogs. The art was…

WTF, D&D: Wild World Wrestling “Sheol in the Steel”

WWE superstar Joanie “Chyna” Laurer died unexpectedly yesterday (April 20th) at the age of 45. For reasons that are totally normal, not weird or gross, Zack thought it was important that we paid tribute to Chyna. Unfortunately, we only have one way to do that at WTF, D&D, so we played the wrestling role playing game Wild…

WTF, D&D: Dark Heresy – The Lost Dog Detectives (Part II)

In the first part of our Dark Heresy adventure, Inquisitor Farael Badus tasked Steve’s veteran Imperial Guardsman Icarus Toughman with unraveling the mystery of a planetary governor’s missing pet. Accompanied by Adeptus Arbites dominatrix Animae Fabuloso, Icarus found hedonism reigning in the upper hive and an imposter of the pet left behind. The governor’s aide,…

WTF, D&D: Dark Heresy – The Lost Dog Detectives

It is the 41st Millenium. A time of fire and skulls and, for some reason, orks. The Imperium of Man faces insidious threats from the forces of Chaos. These evil gods live in another realm and corrupt the minds and bodies of mortals who serve them. Only the Holy Inquisition, and roughly 20 different branches…