I'm Back, Yes?

Marvel has released a new Death's Head comic, so I drew this.

Normz Out

One more piece from Barbarians of the Ruined Earth. The Kickstarter has a few more days left to go.

Images From a Ruined Earth

Here are a couple of pieces for Barbarians of the Ruined Earth. The Kickstarter is still active.

Forest Walks Are Good for You

The Kickstarter for Barbarians of the Ruined Earth has launched, so it seems like an appropriate time to post this new picture from the project.

RUN AWAY!

I have no idea what that big thing is but it will be appearing in Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, Kickstartering in the next few days from DIY RPG Productions.

My Top "Four" Computer Games EVER

There was a #MyFave4GamesEVER thing on twitter.

I couldn't stick to four.

Oh Dear...

This is a bit embarrassing. Following on from the role-playing games I have played and the games I own but have not played, here are the adventures and campaigns that I own and have not played. Again, I am not including free stuff that's been shoved at me by Drive Thru RPG, nor am I including adventures from magazines, because that would be ridiculous and this is quite bad enough.

Adventure Number Ten - Lamentations of the Flame Princess (LotFP)
Assault on Blacktooth Ridge - Castles & Crusades
Bad Myrmidon - OSR
Barrowmaze - OSR
Better Than Any Man - LotFP
Blades - Earthdawn
Blood in the Chocolate - LotFP
Broodmother SkyFortress - LotFP
Carcosa - LotFP
The Cursed Chateau - OSR/LotFP
Dark Frontier - Rogue Trader
Death Love Doom - LotFP
Death's Dark Shadow - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Deep Carbon Observatory - OSR
The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children - LotFP
Doors to Darkness - Call of Cthulhu
Dungeon of the Unknown - LotFP
Dwimmermount - Adventurer Conqueror King/OSR
- I have played one session of a pre-release version of the dungeon online with the author, James Maliszewski, so maybe I shouldn't count it.
England Upturn'd - LotFP
Eyes of the Stone Thief - 13th Age
Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages - Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game
Fever-Dreaming Marlinko - OSR
The God that Crawls - LotFP
Going Through Forbidden Otherworlds - LotFP
The Grinding Gear - LotFP
Hammers of the God - LotFP
The Idea from Space - LotFP
Kafer Dawn - 2300AD
King for the Day - OSR
Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess - LotFP
Lure of the Expanse - Rogue Trader
Masks of Nyarlathotep - Call of Cthulhu
Maze of the Blue Medusa - OSR
Misty Isles of the Eld - OSR
The Monolith from Beyond Space and Time - LotFP
Nameless Horrors - Call of Cthulhu
No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides - LotFP
No Salvation for Witches - LotFP
Oddpool - Into the Odd
Palace of the Silver Princess (DIY Remix) - OSR
The Pale Lady - LotFP
People of Pembrooktonshire - LotFP
The Punchline - LotFP
Qelong - Lamentations of the Flame Princess
A Red & Pleasant Land - LotFP
Sacraments of Evil - Call of Cthulhu
Scenic Dunnsmouth - LotFP
Silent Titans - Into the Odd (I think)
A Single, Small Cut - LotFP
Slumbering Ursine Dunes - OSR
Sounds of the Mushroom Kingdom - LotFP
The Squid, the Cabal, and the Old Man - LotFP
Tales of the Scarecrow - LotFP
Thulian Echoes - LotFP
Tomb of the Iron God - OSR
Tower of the Stargazer - LotFP
Towers Two - LotFP
The Weird that Befell Drigbolton - OSR
World War Cthulhu: Europe Ablaze - Call of Cthulhu
X-Men: Who Goes There? - Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game

There's a lot of OSR -- LotFP in particular -- stuff there because I do a fair bit of work in that area, but my own group doesn't play old-school games unless I'm playtesting something. It's a feeble excuse but it's all I've got.

Space Barbarians!

These are from Barbarians of Orange Boiling Seas, an upcoming adventure written by Zzarchov Kowolski for Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

This one was supposed to be the matriarch of a Neanderthal clan, but it looks more like Doctor Who person Steven Moffat. Oh well.

I believe the adventure will be released at this year's Gen Con in August, and will be on general sale soon afterwards.

Missed Opportunities

Following on from the probably-incomplete list of games I have played, here are the games I have owned but have not played, and in some cases haven't even read:

• 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars 
• 13th Age Glorantha (I have uncovered a completed character sheet for this, which suggests I've played it -- likely run by Stuart -- but I can't find any evidence of having done so!)
• 2300AD
• Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20
• Apocalypse World (I gave my copy to Stuart years ago, so who knows if I'll ever play this!)
• Ashen Stars
• Barbarians of the Ruined Earth
• The Black Hack
• Blade Runner
• Bluebeard's Bride
• Blue Rose
• The Breach
• Break!! (Acquired 2024)
• Business Wizards 2.0
• Cartel
• Coriolis: The Great Dark
• Cthulhu Awakens
• The Cthulhu Hack (Played on 26th October 2025!)
• Cyberpunk 2020 (I have to play this next year, before it's too late! Update: I played this just before the end of 2020 but forgot to blog about it!)
• Death Is the New Pink
• Demon City
• Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition
• Epyllion: A Dragon Epic
• Forgotten Futures
• Goblin Slayer (Acquired 2026 just to see what Sword World is like. It was cheap, but I must be insane.)
• Godbound
• GOZR
• Household
• If I Were a Lich, Man
• In Nomine
• Into the Odd (Played Silent Titans, which uses the same rules, in 2022.)
• Judge Dredd and the Worlds of 2000AD (plus the Rogue Trooper and Strontium Dog spinoffs/campaigns!)
• Lacuna Part I. The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (Played in 2021.)
• Lady Blackbird (Played in 2024.)
• Lords of Creation
• Mage: The Ascension (My copy of the rulebook is long lost, so I doubt I'll be playing this!)
• Make You Kingdom
• Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game (I may never play this as I don't have the cards!)
• Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales (This is technically a campaign setting but it changes AD&D2 to such an extent that I'm going to include it; thanks to Martin for the inspiration!)
• Mekton II
• Memento Mori
• Mutant Future
• My Little Pony Roleplaying Game
• Nemesis (Played 03/05/2026!)
• Night's Black Agents (Played in 2021.)
• One Last Fight
• Piaga 1348
• PIRATE BORG
• Power Rangers Roleplaying Game
• Psi World
• Puppetland
• Rebel Scum 2nd Edition
• Ruination Pilgrimage
• Silent Legions
• Silent Titans (Played in 2022.)
• SINless
• Sleepaway (and Uncanny)
• Small But Vicious Dog
• Starlee Davidson
• Stealing Stories for the Devil
• The Strange
• Strike!
• Tenebria: Remnant of Rome
• Tenra Bansho Zero
• Terror Target Gemini
• TimeWatch
• Transformers Roleplaying Game
• Traveller, the original flavour.
• Troika!
• True20
• Villains and Vigilantes
• Visigoths vs Mall Goths
• Wandering Blades
• Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum
• Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound

These are the games I've bought or -- in the case of freebies -- made an effort to acquire. Most are hardcopies, with a handful of pdfs; I am not including all the free pdfs you get given every so often at Drive Thru RPG because then the list would go into the hundreds and that way lies madness.

It's not as bad as I thought, although it is a little bad; there are things here that I will never play and I know it. The bigger issue perhaps is the number of adventures and campaigns I've bought with no clear idea of when they will be played; perhaps that's a list for another post, if I can stand the crushing shame of it all.

Playa Got Game

This popped up on Twitter the other day:



I replied with a list. Then remembered a few more. Then another few more. Then some more, then I gave up and decided to post the list here instead. I knew I'd played more than four. I didn't realise it had been more than ten times that.

This list doesn't include the games I've owned and never played -- which is a smaller list, but only just! -- nor the games for which I've generated characters and then the game never happened.

13th Age
Adventures in Middle Earth
Alien (2025; both for Space: 1999 and Alien itself.)
Barbarians of Lemuria
Call of Cthulhu
Cold City
Conspiracy X
Cthulhu Hack (2025)
Cyberpunk 2020 (the last days of 2020, just in time!)
Cybergeneration
Cypher System
Dark Conspiracy
Deadlands
Deadlands Noir
Delta Green (v2 in 2019)
Dragon Age
Dragonlance: The Fifth Age
Dungeons and Dragons (Basic, 2, 4, and 5)
Elric!
Feng Shui
Fiasco
Fighting Fantasy
Golden Heroes
Hot War
Labyrinth Lord
Lacuna Part I. The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (2021)
Lady Blackbird (2024)
Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Legend of the Five Rings
Marvel Super Heroes (2012; FASERIP)
Middle Earth Roleplaying
Monster of the Week (2021)
Mutant (Year Zero, Genlab Alpha, Mechatron)
Mutant Chronicles
Nephilim
Night's Black Agents (2021)
The One Ring
Pandemonium!
Paranoia
Pathfinder
Pendragon
Phoenix: Dawn Command
The Quiet Year (2025)
Redbox Hack
Rogue Trader
RuneQuest
Savage Worlds
Shadowdark (2025)
Shadow of the Demon Lord (2020)
Shadowrun
Silent Titans/Into the Odd (2022)
SLA Industries
A Song of Ice and Fire (sort of; Ben used the rules to run an Arthurian game)
Star Wars (d6)
Tales of the Arabian Nights (2016; put an asterisk against this one, it's more of a multiplayer Fighting Fantasy gamebook than an rpg proper, but it's close)
Trail of Cthulhu
Traveller: The New Era
Unknown Armies (sort of; Stuart used a homebrew system based on Star Wars d6)
Vaesen (2025)
Vampire: The Masquerade
Vultures (2022)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (first, second, and -- in 2019 -- fourth edition)
World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness (2026)

I think that's it, but I expect to remember half a dozen more games about thirty seconds after I click "Publish".