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BLADESMYTH launches one week from today: Tuesday, June 16th, at 9amPDT. Come join this culinary thrill ride from writers Justin Calen-Chenn and Lingie Park, artist Creees Lee, and colorist Wil…

A Satirical Sci-Fi Drama from Writer Mark Russell and Artist Russ Braun Featuring Righteous Variant Covers by Mark Russell, Russ Braun, and Matt Bors And A Slew of Unforgettable Campaign-Exclusive…

Revisit the Mangaverse twenty-five years later with writers Joe and Jack Kelly, Cody Ziglar, Ashley Allen, Alyssa Wong, and artists Kenny Ruiz, Kei Zama, Mirka Andolfo and Michael Yg, this…

​Archie Comics and Oni Press Invite You to The Milestone Publishing Event of 2026, Beginning in September! COVER A BY STUART IMMONEN PORTLAND, OR (June 9, 2026) Oni Press –…

An important celebratory comic was released on Wednesday, April 1, and it recognized the 50th anniversary of Marvel’s Eternals! WHAT HAPPENED? It certainly wasn’t an April Fool’s joke, but on…

 Marrying the Sword and Planet flavor of Warriors of the Red Planet (WotRP) with the heavy simulationist, domain-level architecture of ACKS II creates an incredible sandbox. You get the pulpy, high-adventure energy of Barsoom combined with the rigorous economic, logistical, and empire-building mechanics that make ACKS II legendary.Because both systems are built on top of the classic B/X D&Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

WARBIRD’s Cole Norton Head Studies by Alex Maleev IF IT RIDES, FLIES OR FLOATS, COLE CAN DRIVE IT. AND DEREK KOLSTAD & ROBERT VENDITTICAN WRECK IT! FEATURING DESIGNS BY FRANK QUITELYAND…

Hasbro, a leading games, IP and toy company, in collaboration with Reigning Phoenix Music, today announced THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE 40th Anniversary Celebration of Life Concert, a special live event taking place…

Missoula, Montana, June 9th, 2026 – Vala Foundry and Vault Comics today announced Barbaric: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of the hit comic series by Mike Moreci and Nathan…

Crochet AmiguWHOmi: Adventures in Time and Space by Liz Ward is bigger than it looks on the outside, stuffed with over 45 patterns from all around the Whoniverse! Explore the cosmos and the inside of this brand new book - and enter to win your own copy below! Disclaimer: I was given a copy of […]

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Title: Blood of the Wolf Man # 1 Publisher: Image Comics Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Leomacs Colorist: Pip Martin Letterer: D.C. Hopkins Cover Artist: Leomacs Color Cover Artist: Pip Martin…

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 This skirmish event occurs in Room 19 (The Room of Pools), a large, central No-Man's-Land chamber that acts as a structural bottleneck between the West and East wings of Quasqueton. This blog post picks right from Meditations on the classic In Search of the Unknown (Module B1, written by Mike Carr in 1978) module Adapted To OSR Rpg systems especially The Adventurer, Conqueror, King Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

After giving it much thought, amid numerous discussions with the old man, we decided we didn’t want to just do re-prints of the old material, though we’re cooking up something fun for the 20th anniversary of LFG. Rather, after spending
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By Marco G. Fossati
Self Published
Dragonbane/OSR
I think this is a BRP system

… hear the tale of Ardana, a mage who defied the Dragon Emperor and vanished with her dark grimoire, The Heart of Ardana. Her ruined tower still stands, touched by strange demonic magic.

This eight page adventure features an old wizards tower and uses four pages to describe eleven rooms on like five floors. Long read-aloud, over-reveals, abstracted treasure. It’s really hard for to describe how “lackof adventure” this is. 

So I’m out with friends and the chick next to me is like “Hey Bryce, where are some places to go to meet people. I want a summer fling.” So I turn to some stranger next to me sitting alone at the next table and am like Hey man, where are some fun places to go in Indy, Chickula is looking to meet men. And he’s like “I’m gay.” Dude, not you, I’m like 30 years older than her, maybe you, as a young fella, know of a place where the the young women might go other than a fucking D&D convention?!  “So he replies: “I know of three jazz clubs …” Dude has missed the point. Oblivious to it all. 

Ok man, let’s GET! IT! On! We are Dragonbaning and I couldn’t be more excited this morning. “At the first light of dawn, in the settlement of Outskirt, the player characters came across a ballad sung by a highly skilled female Bard, named Tymolana.” Oh Jesus h fucking Christ. Fortunately, that’s all there is to this. Except the ballad itself. What do they call that? At the cons? Filcing? Felching? Whatever. It then jumps to “The ancient tower, called The Tower of The Standing Stones, lies at the foot of a hill. The player characters will face a hard journey which lasts at least a full day.” So, you get the “highly filled female bard” sentence, the ballad, and then the whole “it’s a hard journey” sentences. I absolutely thought, given that bard line, we were gonna at least mary sue the chick or at least spend an hour having to deal with some read-aloud, but, no. It just tosses in that “it was a rough journey” thing and you’re at the fucking tower. I don’t understand why any of this is in the adventure. The bard has nothing to do with it. The ballad doesn’t matter. The journey clearly doesn’t matter. And the adventure is like this, time and again. This weirdly specific attention to detail and then, quick, abstract everything!

“A weathered stone tower at the foot of a low hill. Its crown has crumbled and the masonry is cracked and flaking; the whole place looks worn-out. A short run of broad stone steps climbs the slope to a heavy, skewed door. Faint chisel-marks and moss stains can be seen on the lower steps and around the lintel. Windows and fissures reveal that it is a 3-story tower. On the top, some standing stones point to the sky. From time to time, some crackles of purple energy strangely illuminate the surroundings.” Over-reveals in the read-aloud. A read-aloud that is too long. Three stories?! Let’s climb to the top! Windows? We’re in! Never use the front door, kids, when doing & B&E. Does the adventure handle any of this? No, of course not

“A narrow stone corridor with damp, flaking walls. Faded paintings of skeletons line the west wall. One skeleton has an oversized skull with purple eye sockets” Where do YOU think the secret door is? Jesus. Ok, so, when you write a description like this you start at the abstracted layer. There are faded paintings on the walls. As the party asks then you tell them it’s of skeletons and the whole purple eye thing. That’s it. That’s the core fucking mechanic of D&D. The DM describes something and the party responds. Why not just fucking say there’s a secret door behind the purple eyes? Fuck me man. Don’t do this. Please. Don’t write descriptions that over-reveal. Keep the game alive. Keep the core mechanic alive. 

“Treasures: Among the crates and the sacks, the player characters can find treasures equivalent to one treasure card.” I don’t know about you, but I like to show off my treasure cards to the young ladies at the bar. They love that treasure card flash! So, I assume this is some Dragonbane shit, but, still, “treasure card?” The party wants the fabled rose of Amun-Sur or the cape of Verde Tacana, not “a treasure card.” Good treasure makes the party want to keep it and wear it, even if it’s non-magical, instead of melting it down immediately to purchase twelve more torchbearers. Why abstract this? It’s like buying an adventure and opening it to read “Have an adventure” and nothing else. That’s it. That’s a major part of the whole fucking experience. 

And this extends. That fucking ballad, which is like eight short lines long, mentions The hEart f Ardana or some shit like that. A spellbook. You ready for it, the reveal, the object of infinite desire, the thing to which launched a thousand ships, The grimoire called The Heart of Ardana: “Grimoire: The grimoire is the Heart ofArdana. The grimoire is trapped (see below).” That’s it. Nothing else. No more description. Not in the text. Not in an appendix (there are none.) No mention of it or its contents. Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day? “Vecna: Seldom is the name of Vecna spoken except in hushed voice, and never within hearing of strangers, for legends say that the phantom of this once supreme lich still roams the Material Plane. It is certain that when Vecna finally met his doom, one eye and one hand survived. The Eye of Vecna is said to glow in the same manner as that of a feral creature.”

Instead we get backstory. “The demon was conjured by Ardana during the siege as her last defense, but the ritual was interrupted before it was fulfilled. It has been in that state since there and looks to be freed. In order to do so, the ritual lines must be canceled” I DON’T CARE. This nonsense adds nothing to the adventure. And it’s EVERYWHERE. 

This is absolutely one of the most boring adventures I’ve ever seen of everything that actually qualifies as an adventure. And it’s not because there is, like, five bandits in the tower. It’s because of the writing, the mechanics of handling things “Place hands of altar and make a wil save”. It’s weirdly abstracted method of not tellin you ANYTHING about anything to want to know about but still making sure that the room entries are a column long. And that each one has a section about every exit in the room. Except for the ones that DO NOT have a sections about every exit in the room. 

This is boring and inconsistent. 

This is $2 at DriveThru. There is no preview. 

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/567777/the-tower-of-the-standing-stones?1892600

Also, hey, a question for all the eurotrash: I assume each country in europe has a dominant game, aka that Das Schwarze Auge shit. But Italy seems to be the only country in which we get adventures out of. They just crank them out. Something weird in the Italian water, D&D-heavy, or something else going on? Why don’t I see frenchy adventures?

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 B9: Castle Caldwell and Beyond (1985) by Harry Nuckols is unique among classic TSR modules. Rather than presenting a grand, sprawling sandbox or a deeply integrated megadungeon, it is a compilation of five bite-sized, single-session mini-adventures designed for levels 1–3.While famously critiqued for its surreal "grab-bag" ecosystem (where bandits, goblins, and giant shrews share adjacent Needleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11243274667834930867noreply@blogger.com0

New covers for Titan Comics’ two issue Circuit Breaker story Adversary of the Daleks/Dawn of the Daleks

 

More details of Titan Comics’ part in this year’s Doctor Who multimedia event, Circuit Breaker, are now available. The overall story arc sees Osgood summon the Doctor to UNIT’s Black Archive to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several alien artifacts. However, Osgood is shocked to be confronted by a new, very different incarnation of the Time Lord – Jo Martin’s Fugitive incarnation.

In Titan’s two issue mini-series, the pair travel to Skaro and encounter the Daleks. The official synopsis for the two issues, Adversary of the Daleks and Dawn of the Daleks, is now out and reads “The Doctor travels to the war-ravaged world of Skaro as she battles the Daleks with the fate of their Kaled forebears at stake!”

Issue 1: Adversary of the Daleks is out on the 7th of July, while Issue 2: Dawn of the Daleks follows on the 5th of August.

Each issue has five covers to choose from, with several of the covers now in listings.

The covers revealed so far… Issue 1 Cover A by Jay Anecleto Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #1. Cover A by Jay Anacleto (c) Titan Comics

 

Issue 1 Cover B – Photo Cover Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #1. Cover B (c) Titan Comics

 

Issue 1 Cover C by Robert Sienecki Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #1. Cover C by Robert Sienecki (c) Titan Comics Issue 1 Cover D by Flops Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #1 Cover D by Flops (c) Titan Comics Issue 2 Cover B – Photo Cover Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2 Cover B (c) Titan Comics

 

Issue 2 Cover C by Kit Wallis Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2 Cover C by Kit Wallis (c) Titan Comics

 

Meanwhile, Issue 2’s Cover A is by Nipuni, and Flops provides Cover D. Each issue’s Cover E will have the same art as Cover D, but in black and white.

 

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker, the new multimedia event for 2026 (c) BBC Studios Circuit Breaker begins with Calling the Doctor, free on the UNIT website on the 25th of June

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Social media is often criticized for the problems it causes for society, and there are certainly many valid concerns. BUT it also has many positive aspects: it has allowed me to meet so many amazing people. Case in point, the subject of today’s interview.

Last week, I was working at a tradeshow, and late in the day, one of the visitors to the booth was this very friendly young gentleman. He engaged with us about the products we were showcasing, and we ended up talking about him being an artist, his love for board games, and the fact that he’s a TTRPG gamer. I told him I’m a gamer too and asked, “Does he know about Puerto Rico Role Players?”

Turns out, I’ve known Kevin in the digital world for almost 10 years! He’s been a participant in Puerto Rico Role Players for years, and we even exchanged messages on Facebook back in early 2017! The last thing I expected was meeting him in person at a trade show. I love the magic of the online gaming community, which allows me to meet people like Kevin. It always makes me happy to meet fellow geeks in the wild!

Having made the connection and already knowing his art form through following him online, I reached out to him to see if he would participate in this series of interviews. He graciously agreed, and he is the subject of today’s post. Without further ado, here we go.

Introduce yourself! Who are you and what do you create?

Hello, world! I’m Kevin M., Professor Montijo, or nerdygeekyart (depending on who you ask). I’m a Government Financial Analyst by day, an Accounting and Auditing Professor by night, but in my free time, I make art.

How would you describe your art or creative endeavor?

I would describe my art as colorful, miscellaneous, and delightfully nerdy. On my art pages, you’ll find everything from simple doodles to full illustrations of the things I know and love, as well as professional work I’ve been hired for. Even though my art is more of a personal passion, I’ve been hired for professional projects, such as illustrating and designing art for a physical card game and serving as an Art Director for a PC game available on Steam.

Aside from regular illustrations, you’ll also find game assets, concept art, 3D models/renders, clay sculptures, dungeon maps, and a plethora of art pieces made either digitally or using any number of mixed media—from pen and ink, to alcohol markers, to watercolors, to whatever I can find in my art bins.

How did you discover TTRPGs?

Like many people my age, I grew up playing or collecting cards from various TCGs like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and even the Neopets TCG (Yes, I still have access to my Neopets account). Those were, in essence, my gateway drug to the delightfully nerdy activities one could play on the school floor or any available table (other than Tazos/POGs, of course). I was always a fan of classic board games, starting with Monopoly, my great aunt’s favorite, and other classics like Cluedo, Battleship, Operation, etc.

I think an absolutely pivotal moment in my love for tabletop games was when I got my hands on the first edition of a little game called Munchkin. When I brought that compact box to school, my

classmates and I had a blast every single time we played. Each game was entertaining and chaotic, and we often challenged ourselves to draw our characters with all the gear and loot they had amassed throughout their journey to level 10. That led me to eventually getting a more advanced version of the game called Munchkin Quest, in which you actually generated a randomized dungeon as you explored, each room filled with crazy effects, a plethora of wacky monsters to slay, and that oh so coveted loot. I still recall one particularly intense game with my best friend at the time, where, against all odds, we managed to beat the final boss, a level 20 plutonium dragon with a mix of gear, random loot, potions, and sheer luck. Now my collection of tabletop games has grown significantly, nearly reaching 300 different titles and counting.

As for TTRPGs, it’s difficult to pinpoint an exact manner of discovery. I remember visiting a small local comic convention when I was very young, purchasing some comics, collectible figures, and a few other things, when something suddenly caught my eye: a box full of dice of varying shapes and colors. That plethora of polyhedra and platonic solids called out to me like a siren to an unsuspecting sailor. As I rummaged through the box, I ended up picking out a red d20 with blue speckled paint from a now-discontinued Chessex set. That newly acquired icosahedron made me want to research what all those dice were used for. Dungeons & Dragons was, of course, at the epicenter of my search, along with a string of other TTRPGs. Unfortunately, I didn’t know a single soul who played, so I had to push most of that research to the back of my mind for the time being.

Fast forward a couple of years, and I started to learn about the Pathfinder TTRPG. For some reason, the more I learned about it, the more I got into it, and eventually decided to buy one of their starter sets. I became absolutely obsessed with it, reading every bit of material and eventually purchasing the core rulebooks and some adventure modules. That being said, I still knew nobody who played. I went to a small, Christian private school with very few students (my class was made up of just 12), and I didn’t have a personal internet connection during my time at school, so meeting people online was not really an option. For some reason, I longed to play the game so much that it never occurred to me that I could try my hand at being a Dungeon Master/Game Master and teach the game to my small circle of friends. Eventually, as I moved on to college, I managed to get a personal internet connection, make friends who shared my interests, and begin playing a few TTRPGs. The rest is history.

Do you actively play TTRPGs? What are you playing?

The TTRPG I play most actively is D&D, either online or with small groups in sporadic bursts. I’m currently not involved in any active sessions, but I look forward to my next adventure!

What do you want to play next?

There are a few TTRPGs or settings that I own the core material for and would love to try out, but I haven’t had the chance yet. These are mainly, but not limited to:

• Nimble: A fast and tactical TTRPG.
• Vagabond: A pulp fantasy TTRPG.
• Dragonbane: A classic fantasy TTRPG.
• Lodestar: A D&D 5e setting based around space-fantasy, heavily influenced by Treasure Planet.

What projects are available, and what are you working on next?

I’m currently working on improving my 3D modeling and rendering skills with Nomad Sculpt and Blender to bring all my fantastical and nerdy 2D ideas to the third dimension with some hopefully exciting applications in the near future.

Where can people find your work?

I’m most active on Instagram and TikTok, both under @nerdygeekyart ! There you’ll find my art, some peeks into my life, and time-lapses of some of my work. Don’t be afraid to pop by and say hi! And, if you like what you see, feel free to follow!

Any closing thoughts?

I would say to all my nerds, geeks, and dweebs out there: the one thing that will lead you to do the things you enjoy most and meet amazing people who share your interests and passions is to be your wonderful self unapologetically. Don’t be afraid to geek out over the things you love. Be kind. Be understanding. Be open-minded and, again, be yourself. Do that, and everything else will follow.

Cheers!

Your friendly neighborhood nerd

Thank you very much, Kevin! See you all next week for the next interview, dear reader.