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Review of the Crow Tarot
Posted: Thu, 23 Apr 21:23:13
Category: Reviews, tarot
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Posted: Thu, 23 Apr 21:23:13
Category: Reviews, tarot
Created by MJ Cullinane, the Crow Tarot exemplifies the majesty and mysticism of ravens and crows in all 78 cards. The tarot card meanings, which pay homage to the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith deck, are easy to understand if you're familiar with RWS. If you're not, an 86-page guidebook included with the deck walks you through upright and reversed meanings of each illustrated card filled with crows, ravens, and other members of the animal kingdom.
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Wizards of the Coast Announces Dungeon Masters
Posted: Thu, 16 Apr 20:52:11
Category: Features, dungeons & dragons, wotc
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Posted: Thu, 16 Apr 20:52:11
Category: Features, dungeons & dragons, wotc
Wizards of the Coast Announces Dungeon Masters, an Official Dungeons & Dragons Actual Play Series, Featuring All-Star Cast
Starring Jasmine Bhullar as the Dungeon Master, Mayanna Berrin, Christian Navarro, Neil Newbon, and Devora Wilde
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Our Brilliant Ruin TRPG Corebook Review
Posted: Fri, 10 Apr 21:53:51
Category: RPGs, horror, TTRPG
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Posted: Fri, 10 Apr 21:53:51
Category: RPGs, horror, TTRPG
Our Brilliant Ruin is: “the first story-world developed by Studio Hermitage. Created for multiple formats including tabletop and video games, Our Brilliant Ruin features the Dramark, an elitist society unraveling against the backdrop of a preternatural catastrophe. Welcome to a gilded age in which upstairs-downstairs personal and sociological drama meets existential horror.” Created by Justin […]
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Review of The Crooked Moon 5th Edition
Posted: Sat, 04 Apr 16:14:03
Category: RPGs, dark-fantasy, dungeons & dragons
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Posted: Sat, 04 Apr 16:14:03
Category: RPGs, dark-fantasy, dungeons & dragons
Somewhere, lost in the shrouded realms of death, lies a land of endless night where long?forgotten horrors are revealed to those who travel through the mist. There, in a crooked house lives a Crooked Man with a crooked grin. He raises crooked arms to a Crooked Tree at the edge of midnight and hears the […]
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Fly Into Meowtropolis on Kickstarter and Save the Day
Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 18:08:27
Category: Articles
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Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 18:08:27
Category: Articles
Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s the super kitties!
Atlas Games, publisher of Magical Kitties Save The Day 2nd Edition, has launched and funded a Kickstarter for three new supplements: Mice’s Gambit, Trouble in River City, and a new city book called “Mewotropolis.”
Meowtropolis is a big, bustling city filled with supervillains plotting to control the planet, steal the world’s largest diamond, or get revenge on everybody who ever laughed at them.
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Dream Realm Storytellers Open the Gates of Hell with Demonheart
Posted: Mon, 23 Mar 17:21:56
Category: Articles, horror, kickstarter
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Posted: Mon, 23 Mar 17:21:56
Category: Articles, horror, kickstarter
Dream Realm Storytellers, known for their immersive 5E worlds (Svilland, Bloodpunk, Corpus Collection, and Silverplate) are excited to announce their newest project, Demonheart - The Vile Codex for Daggerheart™. Demonheart is a 3-book codex with over 450 pages, a new class, 7 new domains, 66 new subclasses, a Hellish setting, a full adventure, and more for Daggerheart.
This project marks DRS' first descent into Daggerheart, a system originally created by Critical Role. It will include the first major adventure ever written for the Daggerheart™ system, and embraces an edgy, unflinching plunge into a biblical Hell that is very dark and very gory. Players descend into a brutal infernal metropolis of torture, execution gardens, and endless chains, taking on the roles of the damned themselves. With subclasses inspir
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Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age Dawns on Kickstarter
Posted: Wed, 18 Mar 21:19:50
Category: Articles, kickstarter, TTRPG
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Posted: Wed, 18 Mar 21:19:50
Category: Articles, kickstarter, TTRPG
Rebellion Unplugged has just launched Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age, a brand-new roleplaying game and reimagining of Ken St Andre’s classic Tunnels & Trolls from 1975, the world’s second-ever RPG, after Dungeons & Dragons on Kickstarter. Your characters are at once ordinary but fated Kindred, and adventures take you deep into dark tunnels, dangerous […]
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Review of Tarot del Toro
Posted: Mon, 16 Mar 21:45:53
Category: Other Games, Reviews, horror
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Posted: Mon, 16 Mar 21:45:53
Category: Other Games, Reviews, horror
Continuing with my reviews of tarot decks, I'm diving into Tarot del Toro. This tarot deck and guidebook draws from the world of award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Designed and illustrated by Tomás Hijo, this deck features original artwork inspired by the themes, imagery, and characters of some of del Toro’s most popular films including Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Crimson Peak, and The Shape of Water.
For many tarot card readers, the physical aspects of the cards and the deck box are important, so let me address that aspect before addressing the art and off-page elements of this unique horror-themed deck. The back of the cards has a design that does indicate which position it's in. The position of the skull indicates whether you've drawn the cards in the upright or reversed position. The cards are printed in a limited color palette on a matte card stock that feels velvety-soft to the touch. The box the cards arrive in can be considered a true keepsake box: a red satin ribbon helps lift the cards from the interior box, exterior words are printed in raised, embossed lettering, and the box has a thematically-appropriate interior print that's then covered with an additional piece of cover art. These details, along with the 87-page guidebook, present a deck worthy of del Toro's vision.
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GM’s Day Sale! Here’s Our Top 10 Picks for Games, Comics, Fiction, and more!
Posted: Tue, 10 Mar 19:03:29
Category: News, Promotions, drivethrucomics
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Posted: Tue, 10 Mar 19:03:29
Category: News, Promotions, drivethrucomics
DriveThruRPG is embracing Game Masters everywhere by putting 1,000s of titles on sale. The 2026 DTRPG GM's Day Sale is massive! We took a peek, and got excited that some of our favorites games, comics, and stories are on sale. Here's a list of our recommendations! Our lists are not arranged in any particular order--we just thought you'd like our hand-picked recs that include games with GMs, games without, and games for solo play--where the GMs get to play, too.
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Build a Shared Supervillain Lair in New Tower Defense-Inspired Game Dreadquarters
Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 00:38:12
Category: Articles, board game, Game
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Posted: Thu, 05 Mar 00:38:12
Category: Articles, board game, Game
Evil has never required this much teamwork. From the wicked minds of Headlock Games comes Dreadquarters, a 1-4 player strategy game of villainous cooperation and tactical defense, launching on Kickstarter April 7, 2026. In Dreadquarters, players take on the roles of supervillains who have been “strongly encouraged” to cooperate while establishing a new shared evil […]
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Onyx Path Publishing is digging up treasure in The World Below
Posted: Tue, 24 Feb 20:25:52
Category: Features, News, Promotions
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Posted: Tue, 24 Feb 20:25:52
Category: Features, News, Promotions
Buried Treasures is our campaign for two new books to let you delve deeper into The World Below and illuminate some of the darkness. The Delver’s Guide is a Player’s Manual for The World Below. Delvers may be brave, but that doesn’t mean they don’t require help once in a while. That’s what this guide […]
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Review of Our Brilliant Ruin Horror at Crane Mansion
Posted: Thu, 12 Feb 20:45:11
Category: Comics, Reviews, comics
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Posted: Thu, 12 Feb 20:45:11
Category: Comics, Reviews, comics
Our Brilliant Ruin: Horror at Crane Mansion is described as: “upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror in this Edwardian-inspired comics tale of high society and creeping dread. Created in collaboration with Studio Hermitage and in association with the Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG, the comic explores a gilded Edwardian setting where intricate social ties of allegiance and conflict are threatened by the presence of the Ruin—a mysterious force that turns creatures and people into horrific monsters.”
Published by Dark Horse Comics, Horror at Crane Mansion collects the first three issues into a graphic novel, and features writing by Cullen Bunn, art by Christopher Mitten, colors by Piky Hamilton, letters by Frank Cvetkovic, and covers by Helen Mask.
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