Reviews from R'lyeh

On the tail of the Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particul...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/05/fanzine-focus-xxxv-lost-classes.html

On the tail of Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular c...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/05/fanzine-focus-xxxv-crawling-under.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, a...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-280-mail-order-bribe.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, a...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-279-oracle-of-yuggoth.html

1974 is an important year for the gaming hobby. It is the year that Dungeons & Dragons was introduced, the original RPG from which all other RPGs would ultimately be derived and the original RPG...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/1994-planescape.html

Ten years ago, the Abisko Mine was forcibly shut down following an explosion which killed many of the mine workers. Located in the far north of Sweden above the village of Abisko, all that remai...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/mountain-of-madness.html

Just after you review one roleplaying game about running a coffee shop with difficult customers designed to be run on its own or as corollary on top of just about any roleplaying game imaginabl...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/calamity-customer-service.html

It is difficult to describe what ASTERION is without being as direct as its author is. So not to beat about the bush, ASTERION is a sex dungeon. ASTERION is a sex dungeon for Lamentations of th...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fantasy-asterion.html

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST is a scenario set in an England rent by division and strife during the reign of Charles I. This division is between the Protestantism of the country and the Catholicism ...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/grudge-from-grave.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, ...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-278-viscount-who-left.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, a...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-277-hail-to-king.html

CEPHEUS DELUXE: ENHANCED EDITION is a Science Fiction roleplaying game with a long history. If DUNGEONS & DRAGONS has its own Systems Reference Document containing guidelines for publishing con...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/classic-era-science-fiction-gaming.html

When thirteen people vanish along Highway 70 in the Arizona desert in a matter of weeks, a stretch of road that the press calls it the ‘Devil’s Highway’, local enforcement is at a loss to ...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-dark-desert-highway.html

In life, you were one of society’s reprobates or worse. You were evil, villainous, even. You committed murder. You committed acts of fraud. You stole. You dealt drugs. Your actions hurt people...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/solitaire-rectify.html

Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar #9: GRAVE MATTERS is a scenario for Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and the ninth scenario for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar Box...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fantasy-grave-matters.html

First broadcast six decades ago, Thunderbirds is a classic of British children’s television, combining the advanced puppetry of ‘Supermarionation’ with superb scale models and special eff...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-filler-thunderbirds-danger-zone.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, ...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-276-pass-giggle-water.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, a...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-275-schoolmarms-ghost.html

In the far future of the 41st Millenium, the Gilead System has been isolated from the Imperium of Man by the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Great Rift that unleashed waves of supernatural darkness an...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/your-wrath-glory-starter-set-ii.html

Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition , the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content, but for material set in Greg Stafford’s mythic ...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/jonstown-jottings-90-rubble-redux.html

A line of cars, black, with the Stars & Stripes fluttering from the bonnet. The scene jumps. A cheering crowd, flags in their hands, waving. A band strikes up with anthem that always announces h...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/psychics-save-free-world.html

The land of Norway is one of mountain ranges and fjords, and according to legend, one of the mountain ranges is not at a mountain range at all! Instead, it is the body of a Jötunn, Hrungnir, wh...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fantasy-gift-for-all-of-norway.html

The gaming magazine is dead. After all, when was the last time that you were able to purchase a gaming magazine at your nearest newsagent? Games Workshop’s White Dwarf is of course the excepti...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/magazine-madness-29-senet-issue-9.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc.  published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenari...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-274-kanes-tone.html

Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for CALL OF CTHULHU under the Miskatonic University Library Association brand. Whether a sourcebook, scenario, a...

http://rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2024/04/miskatonic-monday-273-flash-cthulhu-be.html