Author: John Baltisberger
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Monster Hunter Monday: MHWorld The Board Game Review
I got started playing Monster Hunter back in 2004, on a PS2 slim I had hooked into a big blocky TV in my apartment just off campus of Southwest Texas University. I remember that I had found the game in the discount bin at the local CD shop, and as someone who love dragons, was…
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Monday Mork Borg: 30 Days of Mork Borg Volume 2 – On the Island of Dying Gods by Rugose Kohn
“There can be only one god of the apocalypse, and their name is Wezsu the Devourer of Gods” This was my first Rugose chapbook. Odd to start with the second, but it was dropping when I was getting in on the Zine craze, and honestly the “On the Island of Dying Gods” really struck a…
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A Reader Review of .dungeon by Batts
“The real world can (and will) affect the game you create. Each class has different powers based on physical things you do, or different parts of your life. The witch uses their tattoos to cast spells while the wizard uses their favorite book. The knight makes vows while the leader can offer gifts to the…
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Monday Mork Borg: 30 Days of Mork Borg Volume 1
“Their arcane and occult practices transformed the fort into a grotesque living mass” I’m back in the saddle again y’all. I stopped reviewing in August last year as I focused on Morkkabeans 1.1, and then jumped immediately into writing Whispers of the Dead Saint. And while, yes, I do have another KS project launching, literally…
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Mork Borg Monday: Crawling Death Below the Dying Forest from Creature Curation
Hi there, been a bit. But I’m back baaybee! with a brand new review of a book I got in the mail the other day, now if you’ve checked out Vast Grimm, you know about Creature Curation. I backed another project from the same team, namely the aforementioned Crawling Death! ( you can grab it…
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Monday Mork Borg: 7 Aboard the Schackel from World of Game Design
“In the time of the Basilisks, ruthlessness is a virtue” I backed this game fast when it came onto kickstarter. I love ocean stuff, I also like prison crawls, I think prisons are fantastic settings for horror and for campaigns. Especially big sprawling ones. Setting a prison barge as the setting makes me very happy,…
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Monday Mork Borg: Vast Grimm by Brian Colin and Ross Brandt
“Each miserable day that passes, the universe inches closer to its inevitable demise” I backed Vast Grimm pretty quickly when I first saw it, before I read too much about it, because, well look at it. It looks incredible, and you all know that I am a sucker for an art object. An entire Mork…
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Mork Borg Monday: kennels of Karnage by Stein Hansen
As we come to the last few hours of my Kickstarter for Morkkabeans 1.1, I have precious little time to do that which you ask of me, reviewing the best and coolest content for Mork Borg. So with that in mind, I picked up my copy of the Kennels of Karnage by Stein Hansen and…
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Mork Borg Monday: The Masticator Gate by Skeletonkey Games
“The SHADOW laid claim to the world.” Okay, I know I missed last week, and some of y’all are sore at me. But I have a good reason, I was busy launching the Morkkabeans 1.1 Kickstarter! That said, I knew I couldn’t put off another week without putting my attention on Mork Borg Monday. And…
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A Reader Review of Bones Deep from Technical Grimoire
“You are a skeleton. You cannot swim. You do not belong.“ Ah, Kickstarter, you terrible bitch. I’ve sunk so much money into Kickstarter they awarded me with a “superbacker” title. What does that mean? It means I have a serious lack of willpower. but why? Why do I do this stupid thing? I’ll tell you,…
Wandering Monster 