Author: crbernard
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Pilgrimage of the Penitent: Repentance and Blood
By Charles R. BernardMörk Borg has been a Wandering Monster staple since its inception. As the pitch-black shroud of Mörky doom enfolds the indie TTRPG scene, its creator-and-player-oriented OGL has drawn hordes of supplements, modules, bestiaries, and all manner of third-party content to its gore-soaked banner.
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Sweet Music and Sylvan Deities in the Cosmic Horror of “Pan: His Majesty in Yellow”
Review by Charles R. BernardI had the good fortune to speak to game designer and fellow occult literature enthusiast Wayne Robert recently, and the equally good fortune to get my dainty claws on a review copy of his forthcoming Old School Essentials setting Pan: His Majesty in Yellow. It’s an exquisitely and intricately crafted love…
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Review: THE ABHORRENT SIX by Stein Hansen
I recently got my hands on an advance copy of THE ABHORRENT SIX, an upcoming Western adventure compatible with FRONTIER SCUM. It’s the work of Stein Hansen and Nidaros Kollective, and boy howdy! It’s more fun than the entire cast of a Sergio Leone movie trying to wrestle a greased pig! I like horror, tabletop…
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Review: Tales and Poetry of Sarkash, a Mörk Borg Supplement by Caleb Engelke
Tales and Poetry of Sarkash is a Mörk Borg supplement by Caleb Engelke (AKA Dungeon Havoc), and it is currently live on Kickstarter! I had the pleasure of perusing Engelke’s atmospheric, atavistic project, and I would strongly encourage you to back it (as I did). Tales and Poetry is a collection of fairy tale prose…
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An Adventurer’s Guide to Oz (Part One: Your Party)
by Charles R. Bernard Some tabletop enthusiasts consider 1977’s first (or “Orange Box”) edition of Dungeons & Dragons to be the dawn of the TTRPG era. Depending on how technical and/or historical you want to get, a more likely candidate was Little Wars, released in 1913 by none other than H.G. Wells. Technicality aside, the…
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