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 Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition Review
Posted: Tue, 14 Oct 21:03:17
Category: Other Games, Reviews, card-game
Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition was designed by William Sininger and John Harris, and is illustrated with full-color, entertaining art by Steve Robbins. The cards are full of geek culture references including Meddling Kids, LARP-ER, We Have Cookies, and several nods to popular Cthulhu Mythos tales by HP Lovecraft. The components are well made and include cute, little tentacle meeples and Ritual dice. Steve Robbins’ Lovecraftian art adds a healthy dose of humor and helps keep the gameplay light and fun.

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 Curseborne Player’s Guide Secrets and Stories with Onyx Path
Posted: Sat, 11 Oct 14:05:48
Category: Game Designers, Interviews, modern-horror
The Curseborne Player's Guide, an expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game from Onyx Path Publishing, is funding now on Kickstarter. In Curseborne, which Onyx Path Publishing funded last year, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own. This is the Onyx Path team's return to Horror game design after years of shepherding the World of Darkness 20th Anniversary lines, as well as Chronicles of Darkness and other games including They Came From Beneath the Sea! and Dystopia Rising: Evolution. We had a chance to talk to the team a bit about this new Player's Guide project and some of the material within.

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 Tarot for Storytellers Launches on DriveThru!
Posted: Tue, 07 Oct 20:40:58
Category: Articles, Features, gamemaster
Tarot for Storytellers is a full-color eBook written by author, narrative designer, and FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli (World of Darkness, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun: Court of Shadows, etc.). The eBook is jam-packed with prompts, guidance, and examples to teach you how to develop new characters, plots, and setting using a deck of tarot cards. Tarot for […]

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 The tale of the Cringe Wizard that was…
Posted: Tue, 30 Sep 21:22:02
Category: Blogs, comic books, dark-fantasy
Currently funding over at Kickstarter is Cringe Wizard, a TTRPG-themed isekai story by Paul Matijevic, set in a long-time Dungeon Master's first, terrible campaign. Today Paul stops by to tell a bit about the inspirations for the book and what helped fill in the tale...

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 Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. arrive at DriveThruComics!
Posted: Mon, 29 Sep 13:55:48
Category: Articles, Features, drivethrucomics
Just in time for Halloween spooky season, Dark Horse Comics has expanded their catalog on the DriveThruComics.com digital comics shop! New additions include the complete Hellboy collections by Mike Mignola, B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Witchfinder, Baltimore, and more. These join our catalog of Dark Horse titles including Critical Role, The Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 graphic novels.

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 Midnight Syndicate releases DARKENED CORNERS, an EP of rare tracks
Posted: Sun, 28 Sep 14:52:06
Category: News, dark-fantasy
Gothic horror instrumental and Halloween music composers, Midnight Syndicate have released an EP of previously unreleased and rare material spanning a period of twenty years entitled DARKENED CORNERS. With album artwork by French artist Pascal Casolari, the EP features music the band has composed for amusement parks and theme parks, as well tracks from their live shows.

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 Paizo Feeds the Hungry! Power Word Meals Pathfinder Event Live Now!
Posted: Fri, 26 Sep 21:48:40
Category: Articles, charity, paizo
Paizo has announced its participation and sponsorship of Power Word Meal, a tabletop charity event benefiting Share the Meal. For each backer of Pathfinder Quest on BackerKit—including backers before the charity event began—Paizo will donate one meal to the campaign (up to a maximum of 10,000 meals donated). Power Word Meal’s campaign runs through October […]

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 New for EVE Online! CCP Launches EVE Vanguard: Operation Nemesis Campaign
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 16:28:43
Category: Articles, ccp, eve online
CCP Games is calling FPS players to the frontlines! The makers of EVE online just launched Operation Nemesis, the latest public deployment for EVE Vanguard, the studio's in-development multiplayer sci-fi shooter set in the EVE Universe. This free, limited-time event introduces a narrative-driven New Player Journey, a new map, formidable new enemies, and an expanded arsenal of far-future weaponry. Participants embark on faction-driven Expeditions and squad up in fierce PvEvP combat, marking the next step toward EVE Vanguard's Steam Early Access launch in Summer 2026. Operation Nemesis runs until 11:00 UTC on October 2, 2025, and is accessed via the EVE online game launcher, downloadable from the EVE Vanguard website.

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 New Starter Set for D&D 2024 Rules! Play as Heroes of the Borderlands
Posted: Tue, 16 Sep 20:40:32
Category: Articles, DnD, dnd 5e
Heroes of the Borderlands (2024) is the newest starter set for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and is now available at your local and online game stores in North America. Designed to pick up and play in just minutes, Heroes of the Borderlands is the perfect entry point for newcomers to D&D, or experienced players looking to […]

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 Monster Kingdoms, a new Dark Fantasy RPG from Onyx Path, is funding now!
Posted: Thu, 28 Aug 19:13:11
Category: Features, dark-fantasy, onyx path
In Monster Kingdoms, you play a creature of darkness. You may be vampiric magus, or feyborn harlequin. You might be a warrior gauntlet, an orc cultist, a druidic elf, or a flame-spitting dragonkin. You can play a wildly creative goblinoid, a chaotic dwarf, a fierce ice elementor, or a shame-filled fiend. Your characters can be anything from hulking dreadnauts to disturbing mentalists, and many Mantles in between.

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 The Dagon Collection is a 2025 World Fantasy Award Best Anthology Finalist
Posted: Sun, 10 Aug 21:22:28
Category: Articles, anthology, awards

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 My WorldCon Seattle Schedule
Posted: Thu, 07 Aug 14:08:10
Category: Blogs, convention, panels
Heya, I will be presenting at World Con: Seattle this year. I’m pleased to share a draft schedule with you. I may have additional panels or other events, but so far these are confirmed.

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