Not Quite A Review – Maze of the Blue Medusa

I’ve read through Maze of the Blue Medusa (from now on, MotBM) three times now. I would sit here and tell you how amazing this book is, how it is one of the finest RPG products ever produced, and how I can’t wait to run it. However if you’re even remotely connected to the RPG blogging community, you’ve already heard all that. Multiple people have already said it, and nothing I say would contribute anything new to that particular conversation. So I’m not going to talk about how good it is (which it is! Seriously, Buy it Now. Read it. I’ll still be here when you’re done.) – I’m going to talk about how important it is. And it may be the most important book ever produced for an RPG game. And it all comes down to personality, methodology, and ethics.

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Review – Deep Carbon Observatory, by Patrick Stuart

I am a little late to the party on this one. I purchased this module based on Bryce Lynch’s review. I’ve read straight through it multiple times now, like a favorite novel. I ordered the physical copy as well as the digital – while awaiting the physical copy, I read the pdf on my phone, on my kindle, on my Nexus, and on my laptop. Then when the book arrived, I took it on vacation and read it multiple times. I just can’t stop reading it. It’s like traditional fantasy D&D meets Lovecraft meets Lewis and Clark meets the most epicly-worded-yet-simply-spun beautiful prose I’ve ever read in my life.

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