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At last, the ritual is complete. In my hands is this book – the key to many of my nightmares and fantasies. A seven-year invocation completed, and yet its effects are only starting to unveil. My journey in delivering this product may have finished, but now you have the tools to gaze beyond the Curtain and cast your own stories of light and shadow, guiding your players unto countless strange reflections of our world. For this last hoorah, I am going to leave you with the works that have influenced my imagination, playstyle, and “genre aesthetic” when it comes to modern occult fantasy.Continue Reading

Sigil & Shadow has finally hit the shelves and has been terrorising players everywhere. If you are looking for a dark RPG of Urban Horror, then the latest book from R.E. Davis is the perfect game to run this summer. Now that Sigil & Shadow is available, what are the critics saying? Let’s find out in this week’s review round-up…Continue Reading

At last, the time has come. You’ve sat read my hype posts, my rambles on game mechanics, and now comes the time where we dive into the weird workings of the cosmos. Today’s post is a primer and overview about the second part of Sigil & Shadow – Esoterica. We’ll be touching on the broad stroke cosmology and have a quick look into the gifts of Mysticism, the manifestations of the Shadowed, and the various arcana of Magic.Continue Reading

At last, the time has come. You’ve sat read my hype posts, my rambles on game mechanics, and now comes the time where we dive into the weird workings of the cosmos. Today’s post is a primer and overview about the second part of Sigil & Shadow – Esoterica. We’ll be touching on the broad stroke cosmology and have a quick look into the gifts of Mysticism, the manifestations of the Shadowed, and the various arcana of Magic.Continue Reading

Sigil & Shadow is filled with dichotomies: light versus darkness, logic versus unreason, and, of course, the natural upended by the supernatural. Players will find their characters caught in the tension between all of these forces and will have to decide for themselves where they stand. There are no clean-cut choices, and players will have to start addressing them as early as character creation.Continue Reading

Sigil & Shadow was crafted with several design goals in mind – a core mechanic that is easy to parse, characters that you can understand at a glance, and rules that aid game play instead of getting in the way. I know, a tall order, right? I’m pretty confident we hit our marks.Continue Reading

Kicking off our Aw Shux coverage today we have an exclusive peek at Sigil & Shadow from Author R.E Davis. We'll be taking a special behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming horror roleplaying game as well as some of it's incredible art from Luis Sanz.Take it away R.E...Continue Reading

Coming at the end of July, Dracula's America: Shadows of the West: Forbidden Power takes the Weird Wild West to the swamps, cities, and plantations of the Deep South...Continue Reading