Archive | October, 2025

Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition Review

Posted on October 14, 2025 by

Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition was designed by William Sininger and John Harris, and is illustrated with full-color, entertaining art by Steve Robbins. The cards are full of geek culture references including Meddling Kids, LARP-ER, We Have Cookies, and several nods to popular Cthulhu Mythos tales by HP Lovecraft. The components are well made and include cute, little tentacle meeples and Ritual dice. Steve Robbins’ Lovecraftian art adds a healthy dose of humor and helps keep the gameplay light and fun.

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Curseborne Player’s Guide Secrets and Stories with Onyx Path

Posted on October 11, 2025 by

The Curseborne Player’s Guide, an expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game from Onyx Path Publishing, is funding now on Kickstarter.

In Curseborne, which Onyx Path Publishing funded last year, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own. This is the Onyx Path team’s return to Horror game design after years of shepherding the World of Darkness 20th Anniversary lines, as well as Chronicles of Darkness and other games including They Came From Beneath the Sea! and Dystopia Rising: Evolution.

We had a chance to talk to the team a bit about this new Player’s Guide project and some of the material within.

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Tarot for Storytellers Launches on DriveThru!

Posted on October 7, 2025 by

Tarot for Storytellers is a full-color eBook written by author, narrative designer, and FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli (World of Darkness, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun: Court of Shadows, etc.). The eBook is jam-packed with prompts, guidance, and examples to teach you how to develop new characters, plots, and setting using a deck of tarot cards. Tarot for […]

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