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The Best Sixty Cents I Ever Spent (Plus Tax): Part One
The Silver Snail is among Toronto’s eldest and most venerable of comic book establishments, and a frequent stop on my downtown journeys (partly because it is close to four different tea shops and two...
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Genre Invasion: Aliens, Zombies and Werewolves, Oh My
I’m calling it now: vampires are on their way out. Okay, let’s be real. Vampires will never really die (pun intended). They’ve been enjoying a slow, steady burn of popularity for the last 30 years...
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Orpheus: Into the Maw
Orpheus was the first time I felt confident as a tabletop GM. It’s nine years old now, I still don’t own all the books, and it laid the foundation for me sticking with the hobby. In White Wolf’s game...
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More Than Cheap Thrills: Keeping Horror Scary
kitteh-krueger: ideally, your antagonist will be scarier. Call it horror fatigue. For those of who grew up cutting our narrative teeth on spooky books and scary movies, we can cite, reference and...
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A Year of Zombie Fear
When I was little, my nerves were unshakable. I read and watched anything that was scary and age-appropriate (and quite a few things that weren’t). Goosebumps? Had it covered. Scary Stories to Tell...
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Monsterhearts
I’ve only played Monsterhearts twice, both times at conventions in 2012. The story game from Joe Mcdaldno is based on the same rules mechanics as D. Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World. I feel a bit...
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Murderous Ghosts
Murderous Ghosts is a game from the mind of D. Vincent Baker. It pits two forces against each other: a young urban explorer, and murderous ghosts. The game has two players. One is the M.C., who...
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In The House of Little Fears: An Interview With Jason L Blair
Jason L Blair is currently a writer at Volition Inc, the developers of the Saints Row series. But his career as a game writer and designer began over ten years ago, when Blair created the...
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To Make Nightmare Fuel, We Must Consume It
Nightmare Fuel: a catchy phrase for the kind of horror that lingers to traumatize its consumers for years. It’s so common as a descriptor to have its own page at TV Tropes, and it’s the bread and...
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Get Your Freak(out) On
If you’re left scratching your head for ideas of what games to play for the remainder of the Halloween season, I’ve got a few recommendations of horror-themed fun to toss your way. All prices below are...
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