When last we left the intrepid Ghostbusters of the Fargo franchise, they had attempted to drum up some business with a publicity stunt on the outskirts Bemidji, Minnesota. Their efforts to rid the novelty Paul Bunyan gift shop of ghost miners has unleashed a malignant ghost entity that has possessed the statue of the giant…
West End Games’ movie tie-in Ghostbusters RPG was released in 1986. That’s three years before there was even a sequel to Ghostbusters, so this was very much prime Ghost Busters time. The game was a fair success and laid the groundwork for West End Games’ better-known Star Wars RPG, which used a very similar system…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I make mistakes. Every mommy does. Even mistakes the jelly eyes see from among their glistening branches. In my experience, most of my mistakes come from being overwhelmed. It’s natural to want to do everything possible to raise our little ones right and please the…
Summer is here, mommies, and we all want to look and feel great, whether we’re in the mall or in the mangroves. We think of our little ones as boundlessly energetic, but I recently noticed my youngest, Astra, seemed very lethargic. These are the favored times, when our little ones should be outside all day, getting tan…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…