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Comes Now the Godswar was an epic campaign that I ran last year in Blades in the Dark. Heavily inspired by the city of Guerdon from the world of Gareth Hanrahan’s Black Iron Legacy , it saw the city of Doskvol play host to refugees fleeing a catastrophic global conflict, and the struggles and complications such an influx of people would cause.  The players went through a real ‘rags to riches’ arc, starting as refugees having to deal with crises and an incoming deadly winter in an internment camp on some formerly deserted islands (the three unmarked islands off of the coast of Whitecrown Island, which I reworked as the Three Sisters, complete with custom location sheet ). By the end of the campaign, they were shot-callers; defending the city alongside their friends and contacts from an approaching army in an epic showdown. It was a great campaign. One of the best I’ve ever had the privilege of running. A lot of this praise has to go to my players, who each brought skilled and uniqu...

Eat the Reich is a capsule game about vampires who kill nazis, and it’s very good at it. I’ve been a devout follower of the church of Grant Howitt since Everyone is Seagulls Goblin Quest, and so when I heard that Rowan, Rook, & Decard were making a splatterpunk, ultraviolent, vampires-in-WWII game, I was hooked immediately (Not to mention seeing Will Kirkby’s fantastic art, including this insane Drop Coffin design). Just look at this shit, isn't that fantastic? A shorter version of this review was first published in July 2024 as part of Questing Quill Zine #1 - check out the whole zine here ! The book sets out its pitch much more effectively than I could: “The Year is 1943. Europe is in flames. You are a unit of crack vampire commandos with a single objective: Drink all of Adolf Hitler’s blood and fatally destabilise the nazi war machine.” Short, sweet, and totally accurate. It sure does do exactly what it says on the tin. At its core, Eat the Reich is a really, really tightly...