Chris McDowall

Probably the game that I ammost hyped to receive in physical form, DIE RPG by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans is a meta-textual love letter to gaming, storytelling, and their own comic creation. It’s a game that is built to destroy you, and in the two sessions I’ve played with my friends it has broken my heart not less than five times. It combines a very clever premise with the ability to do pretty much anything you want, but the consequences, the final decision, always looms large in the minds of you and your…

Into the Odd takes its taglines of rules-light and flavor-heavy very, very seriously. This Old-School Roleplaying (OSR) tabletop game has the veneer of a simple dungeon-delver, but once you dig into the book itself, the straightforward rules lead you into an incredible wealth of lore that emphasizes the conspiratorially satirical undertones of the game.The system is easy to learn—there are player characters and a Referee; you have three statistics, representing Ability Stores (Strength, Dexterity, and Willpower); and one…