Category Archives: game world

[D&D4REAL] Classy!

Oh dear, I think considering the impact of levels in a real D&D world before classes was a mistake… After all levels are a function of class rather than the other way around… But I can pretend that my eccentric ordering of my subject matter is just a homage to the might DMG Okay, before [...]

Lankmar: City of (incomplete) Adventure

The second of my reviews on ‘games based on authors associated with the magazine Weird Tales’ will, I promise, be a lot shorter than the previous instalment. Partly for economy, partly for user-friendliness (screeds hardly make for easy reading on iPads and their ilk), but mainly because Lankmar, based on Fritz Leiber’s  Fafhrd and the [...]

Empire of the Petal Throne and Tékumel

Empire of the Petal Throne and Tékumel Not really a review, but just a general impression and my opinion on what is for many role-players: the ultimate RPG campaign setting. In case you don’t know Tékumel is the brainchild of Prof. M.A.R. Barker and one of the earliest RPG settings to see the light of [...]

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