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Gaming Resolutions for 2023 - The RPPR Newsletter

New Episodes After Hours: Call of Cthulhu - Minions: We review the lowest rated Call of Cthulhu book, as determined by rpg.net. Beware the Horror Man! OMG the OGL situation?! The newest RPPR episode features Caleb and I discussing the OGL controversy and its root. Ludonarrative Dissidents: Meta Currencies in RPGs. Greg Stolze, James Wallis, and I discuss Fate Points, Willpower, Luck, and other similar mechanics in RPGs. Mothership: The Simulacrum Engine - our first scenario with the new...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read

I saw a lot of great movies and played a lot of fun games this year so I wanted to list some of my favorites. All of these entries came out this year, so I’m leaving out things that were new to me. Perhaps a future entry will catch those. I put in links to the games. The movies are on various streaming sites so they’re easy to find. Enjoy and see you next year! Tabletop RPGs FIST: An ultra rules-lite game of paranormal mercenaries fighting the impossible. An inspired and quick character...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
A discussion of puzzles in video games

In this newsletter, I played some horror video games and I have thoughts! The magpie box in Signalis Role playing games and video games face a lot of similar design challenges and making good puzzles is one of the biggest ones. Puzzles are an important tool to vary pacing, so that a game is not just a series of battles and social scenes. They slow the pace and can bring focus to details of the setting. Solving a puzzle can be immensely satisfying to players. I recently played two video games,...

over 1 year ago • 2 min read

Adaptations and Dreams of the Witch House Keizah Mason from Dreams in the Witch House The art of adaptation in media is a tricky one. Taking a story created for one medium and retelling the story in another medium requires changes. Guillermo Del Toro’s new horror anthology series, The Cabinet of Curiosities, are mostly adapted short stories. Two of these stories are from Lovecraft: Pickman’s Model and Dreams in the Witch House. Unfortunately, for fans of cosmic horror, neither adaptation...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
Let's take Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and make it into a deadly funnel adventure! Plus RSS feeds for all of the RPPR campaigns!

You know when you watch a movie or TV show and it just gives you an idea for a RPG? Well, that happened to me. Spoilers for the Netflix series Edgerunners in the following article. The Edgerunner Funnel Adventure The new anime series on Netflix, Edgerunners, is pretty, entertaining, and incredibly violent. It follows the career of a young edgerunner as he rises in skill and reputation until he meets his bloody end. It has action, killer music, great animation, and a rarity for a series these...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
The Festival of Delights and Doom

I’ll be doing more than reviewing shows for this newsletter. Here’s a campaign framework for dark fantasy and horror settings. I also found some interesting horror links and some cool episodes I've worked on recently! The Festival of Delights and Doom Actors, mercenaries, poets, assassins musicians, cultists, and a thousand other stripes of society’s fringe elements have begun their pilgrimage to the Festival of Delight and Doom. An old and irregularly held bacchanalia, the Festival...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
The King in Yellow and The Rehearsal

Welcome to the RPPR newsletter! This is a new thing for me, but I’m eager to share my writing and some of the other stuff I’m working on. In every newsletter, I plan to write an original article and then share some links I've found and recent podcasts and other projects I've worked on. Let’s get started! Nathan Fielder is the King in Yellow: A Review of The Rehearsal Nathan Fielder has transcended cringe comedy with his new show, The Rehearsal. It is a masterpiece of surreality, an absurd...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read
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