The Whistle of CernnunosStooshie & StramashAdvanced Labyrinth Lord Lvl 11-14Pages: 48ish (2 maps and a lot of white space)Classification: Experiment of Leith You boys do test me. The first entry that has some serious assembly issues. I like it. Its ambitious. It uses Warmachine. It uses Advanced Labyrinth Tard (!). Its got its own theming. … More [No-Artpunk] #13 The Whistle of Cernnunos (Advanced LL)
[Adventure]Trick Mission: Butchering Basement (2023)Unbalanced Dice GamesLvl ??? (1-3) The following review contains spoilers. Please do not read this if you are a member of the Pedantic gaming discord. He’s back and he’s writing again! The strangest, most eccentric creator in the OSR has once again busted out of the asylum and is publishing material. … More [Review] Tricky Mission: Butchering Basement (LL); Tricks only
[Adventure]Cacoshox (2017)Unbalanced Dice GamesHigh Level (9+?) It had to happen sometime. My delve into Unbalanced Dice Games and my delve into high level adventures had to be represented somewhere in phase space. Cacoshox, the follow up to the somewhat grounded (for UDG) Perfectorium of the Golden Tentacle. Like all UDG, it is very interesting. Like … More [Review] Cacoshox (LL): Boss level
[Adventure]The Perfectorium of the Golden Tentacle (2017)Unbalanced Dice GamesLvl mid-High (6-9ish) Unbalanced Dice Games is a sort of mad idiot god of adventure design and today we encounter his second magnum opus. Perfectorium of the Golden Tentacle is a 224-page 5 level behemoth of a dungeon. The twist is that this time, UDG has been … More [Review] The Perfectorium of the Golden Tentacle (LL); Advanced
And so it was that our heroes set out to ransack the domain of Nuromen. Snorri was conspicuously absent, as was Zoltan, and Isildoro was lost in his cups, alongside Gaius Manus. It fell to Beorn, Son of Dalric, to lead the expedition. With him were the wizard Barrin, the priest Dereck, the savage hunter … More [Actual Play] B2 Beyond the Borderlands (LL) Pt. XXX; Nuroman
And now for the third time our heroes marched on the Caverns, now strengthened with dogs of war. Nortein the Hunter, recovered from a fever, joined the expedition. Cork the Cleric, a rotund worshipper of the powers of Law, had persuaded him that a third expedition would see the Cult broken. Snorri, who had grown … More [Actual Play] B2 Keep on the Borderlands XXV; The Routing of the Archpriest
And so it was our heroes continued their war against Chaos. This time around they were but 3 who ventured out for the second expedition. Snorri the Dwarf had grown queer of thought, never taking off the strange dragon helm they had found, and refused all entreaties to join the expedition. Skeines was lost in … More [Actual Play] B2 Keep on the Borderlands (LL) Pt. XXIV: Dogs
And so it was that the heroes resided for 1 week in the halls of King Gripli, lamenting the death of their comrades, mending their injuries, and staying as guests of the King. At the end of the week, he called them to his hall, and there under the eyes of his knights bestowed on … More [Actual Play] B2 Keep on the Borderlands Pt. XXII: A long march home
At midnight, Isidoro the Knave and his companions, the Gladiator Minimus and the Priest Paisisco, were taken from their beds by a company of grim-faced legionaries, and brought before the Castellan. This is how it transpired. The Castellan is dressed in his full regalia, bearing ornate armor engraved with his century-long lineage, and even in … More [Actual Play] B2 Keep on the Borderlands (LL) Pt. XVIII; Here be Dragons
Onward our heroes moved, leaving behind them the diseased kobolds, and venturing further into the Flooded Temple, exploring further chambers to the north. Inside an abandoned chamber, they found the rotten and diseased corpse of an earlier explorer, clutching a wooded chest. Using a pole-arm, Isidoro gently pried the chest from the corpse’s hands, and … More [Actual Play] Keep on the Borderlands Pt. XVII; Dragon Cult
Age of Dusk 