There’s no denying the incredible effect that farming-sim games like Stardew Valley, now often referred to as cozy games, have had on the video game industry as a whole. Stardew Valley was released in 2016 and was an almost instant success, eventually selling over 25 million copies and counting. Eric Barone, aka Concerned Ape, was …
Monster of the Week is an excellent tabletop RPG system from Evil Hat Productions that uses the Powered by the Apocalypse system of dice and offers players just what it promises: a very episodic modern RPG where a different monster, alien, supernatural, or unnatural being comes up every week and a strange mystery needs to …
The Hex has managed to be one of the most interesting, controversial, and argued about playbook from the Monster of the Week system, and it’s not hard to see where a lot of players and DMs potentially run into problems. The Hex Playbook was released with Tome of Mysteries, and is one of the most …
Kingdom Eighties is the newest game in the long running Kingdom series, and it was a game I was actually extremely excited for. I am a huge fan of the Kingdom games, and find their stunning pixel graphics and interesting foreground and background graphics that make what is a 2D side scroller feel like it …
Once you’ve played enough hours in Stardew Valley it can be easy to fall into old habits and just rush some decisions without giving it a second thought because you’ve tested it out so many times – but that doesn’t help the newbie who has a question about how to get the most out of …
The Snoop is one of the additional classes that came after the initial book and was released for Monster of the Week players as free online content. This is an interesting playbook, and one that clearly treads in similar ground to the existing Searcher playbook in MOTW. The Snoop comes in multiple forms and can …
The Wronged playbook in Monster of the Week plays off a classic trope, the one of the normal man or woman who lost it all to an unnatural force and vowed to become stronger, to find out everything there was to know, to build up into the warrior who could force revenge. This is going …
The Spell-Slinger class is all about taking that magical something and turning it back against the unnatural and supernatural threats that are not only preying on regular people, but are going to inevitably be an issue when you’re investigating mysteries with your group of hunters. While the Professional may have a lot of guns and …