by Rachel Carpenter

Not mine. From Twitter. Where #SaveStargate is becoming a storm that Amazon did not see coming 😜

If you didn't know (cough, cough, my regular avatar kinda says it all), I'm a lifelong Stargate fan. AmazonMGM had announced a new series. With the original creatives on board. And earlier this week, Amazon changed their mind and announced the cancelation. The fandom is making lots of noise and... I don't know if we can get them to uncancel us, but honestly, I'm more than happy to try. Hence my recent Twiiter activity, a few IG posts, and today's blogpost here.

If you are interested, there are 3 petitions circulating. This seems to be the main one:
https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero

There are also efforts involving sending tissue boxes to MGM HQ and apparently a gofundme to get a plane with a banner has now funded. It's a wild world we live in. And I'm thrilled to see Stargate fandom's massive turnout. I had no idea there were this many of us left. It's kinda mind-boggling. In a good way.

In other news, I spent most of today at the garage.

Stuck there, I put the new edition of Elements through its paces. 22 full playtests later and I can officially say that I'm happy with this latest iteration of the game. This WILL be part 9f the next batch to go up on The Game Crafter.

I also took advantage of the time to play some Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice.

Maybe tomorrow I can finally write up some session reports :whistle:...

Happy Saturday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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by Forbidding

Summer Game Fest is an all-digital, multi-month global festival. It features gaming news, events, and free playable content. Each developer or publisher will announce and host their own conference as part of the event.

Feel free to share any games that I missed in the comments section below.

• Summer Game Fest 2026 | Wholesome Direct (Indies)

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Dressmaker
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Book Nook
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Fields of Mistria
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Spirit Crossing
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Tinkernest
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Moonlight Peaks
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In The Drift
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Capy Castaway
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Discounty
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Dungeon Tourists
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Is This Seat Taken?
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Usagi Shima
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Milki Delivery
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Hidden Folks 2
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Lou's Lagoon
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Beastfolk Barber
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The Wandering Village - The Last Leviathan
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Croakwood
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Deer & Boy
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PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
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Design and Conjure
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Dragon Shelter
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Momento
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Petal Runner
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Froggy Brews
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Planet Zoo 2
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Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit
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Go-Go Town!
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Tales of Seikyu
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Spiritstead
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Paralives
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Moomin: Midsummer Madness
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WATERFUL: a tiny oasis builder
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Hokko Spaces
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Rubber Bird
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by Forbidding

Summer Game Fest is an all-digital, multi-month global festival. It features gaming news, events, and free playable content. Each developer or publisher will announce and host their own conference as part of the event.

Feel free to share any games that I missed in the comments section below.

• Summer Game Fest 2026 | Green Games Showcase

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Green Games is hosted by PlanetPlay, a not-for-profit platform that uses in-game purchases to raise funds for charity. This years event is raising money for the Hongera Energy Efficient Project in Kenya. The project aims to provide communities with locally manufactured cookstoves that are more efficient in order to reduce the felling of trees for firewood and indoor air pollution.

Play As An Animal

Muri: Wildwoods
Youtube Video

Adapt (2027)
Youtube Video

Primordial Empire
Youtube Video

Penguin Colony
Youtube Video

Hela: of Mice & Magic
Youtube Video

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Save The World

SuperWEIRD: Automation Roguelite
Youtube Video

Aloft
Youtube Video

Furi
Youtube Video

Gombo
Youtube Video

The Guardian of Nature
Youtube Video

Witchspire
Youtube Video

KinForge
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Ravaged Worlds

Doomsday Diner
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Spilled!
Youtube Video

Haven (2020)
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Permafrost
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Green Thumb

The Regreening
Youtube Video

Equiverse
Youtube Video

Leafy Corner
Youtube Video

Green Again
Youtube Video

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Explore Natural Worlds

Cairn
Youtube Video

Fantastic Haven
Youtube Video

LumenTale: Memories of Trey
Youtube Video

Outbound (2025)
Youtube Video

Pawsome Resort
Youtube Video

Strange Seed
Youtube Video

Solarpunk
Youtube Video

by sdonohue

Legendary Hybrids: Doomguard is a 2017 release for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (1st Edition) from Legendary Games. It was written by Carl Cramer and Jason Nelson and it features art by a number of talented individuals.

Presentation
This is available in both pdf and print editions. The print version is a perfect-bound volume with clocks in at 32 pages. The book is full color throughout and generously illustrated. It is mostly in two-column format and is an easy read. The covers are heavy stock and the interior pages are matte.

Content
This book combines two existing classes in a style similar to that found in the Advanced Class Guide. In this case, the two classes being combined are the ranger and the cavalier. The premise of the character is that they have a doom and a fated enemy. They know how they are likely to meet their end, but they don't know the exact means or outcome of that end.

The class is presented with 20 levels and mixes the defiance of the cavalier with some of the fighting styles and enemy abilities of the ranger. Probably the biggest difference is the notion of the Doom. There are nearly 50 different dooms included in the book and they are similar to the curses of the oracle, but different. They range from things like being unable to wear any armor to various physical disabilities (like blind or deaf). Some are also social, like friendless which means you can't use diplomacy to improve reactions or odious which means you smell terrible. Most of the dooms have a clear negative impact, but my also have a positive side as well. For example, odious characters are immune to some breathed toxins and as they gain levels they can cast stench and then stinking cloud. The dooms having a positive effect is nice, but ultimately, being stinky is a penalty to the character and possibly his allies.

After describing the dooms (about 18 of the 32 pages), there are some class archetypes; these include the Challenger, a charismatic variation of the doomguard, the Doomwarden, a variation which accepts their fate and chooses to wear heavy armor as they battle their fated enemies, the Fey Foundling who are taken by the fey and learn nature-related abilities, and the Raven Banner who are resigned to their fate and seek only to ensure their ending is glorious, and the

Evaluation
This is a cool book, but it may be a little too much fate and a little too much grim for some players and campaigns. The character knows their fate (sort of) and lives with that knowledge. It seems like a class designed for brooding, although that's not required. It also requires some input from the gm who must make plans to have the character meet fated enemies often enough to make their fate feel real and to let their class abilities shine.

This is interesting, but I'm not sure I'd ever play one. It just feels very dark and I'm more interested in characters that bring hope for themselves and others.

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