Tabletop role-playing games, etc....
This is part two of my reimagining of The Isle of Dread. [Click here for the first part]((https://bearswillattack.bearblog.dev/isle-of-dread-revisited/). There's a lot that is great about The Isle of Dread - that classic 80s wilderness D&D adventure. It has a wide scope - leagues of dangerous jungle filled with monsters - and a genuine feeling of mystery. What lies beyond the safety of the Great…
When I was a 15-year-old gamer, I loved the D&D "Blue Box" Expert Set. Now our D&D games were free from the narrow confines of the dungeon! Into the wilderness! Horses, castles, armies, hex maps! Plus a bunch of boring travel rules. Unlike the "Red Box" Basic Set, which contained two separate booklets - one for players and one for DMs - the Blue Box combined them into a single booklet. To make it…
There's a great RPG called 'You Got A Job On The Garbage Barge' by the esteemed indie game designer Amanda Lee Franck . It's a lightweight game set on a gigantic floating post-apocalyptic garbage barge. It's weird and punk rock and I recommend picking up a copy. I was really taken with the setting, but I wanted to run it using Apocalypse World - no shade to the OSR-style rules included with the…