Forged in hope

Sometimes it can seem like roleplay games always come down to dungeons filled with dwarves and goblins hacking at each other with swords. Just studying t-shirts at a gaming con tends to imply a homoge

Hero sum game

Deckbuilding, in this economy? There are a lot of deckbuilding games out there, and Shards of Infinity: Saga Collection is like a buffet of some of your favourite mechanics, cut with a handful of neat

There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o

Doomsong describes itself as “a Roleplay Macabre set in a world on the cusp of a Biblical apocalypse.” It’s dark, it’s filled with death and there’s a range of nasty traitor gods who want to use you f

Mythic Bastionland is the latest RPG from epic designer Chris McDowall. Chris represents a sort of chimeric force within the world of roleplaying design; he takes decades-established concepts and proc