Bones of Contention

Step into the sepulcher with Bones of Contention, a collaborative review site dedicated to classic play.

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Step into the sepulcher with Bones of Contention, a collaborative review site. Meet our skeleton crew. With our fleshless fingers, we pen reviews of retro-game modules, settings, supplements, and rulesets for classic play. https://t.co/BTnLqjuUBS

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Rest in Power Jennel Jaquays, legendary game design, early trailblazer of dungeon design, author of Caverns of Thracia, Dark Tower, and the Dungeoneer. We will miss her terribly. https://t.co/SW65SF8hoo

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Step into the Sepulcher as Marcia, Alex and Ramanan review Trophy Gold! Can you give the feel of OSR play, while also granting players creative narrative control? Link below.

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Step into the sepulcher as Dwiz offers a scathingly positive review of Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Adventure Game. How can a game break the rules of retro game design -- and still manage to be a blast for retro game players? Link ⬇️

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Periodic reminder that our skeleton crew engages in TTRPG criticism with the inexorable purpose of the living dead.

[Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew]

See the @BonesContention group blog for reviews that consider games / adventures critically and contextually.

See the TTRPG Bloggies @PrismaticWastes hosted for 2022, which had whole categories dedicated to Theory and Reviews.

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[Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew]

See the @BonesContention group blog for reviews that consider games / adventures critically and contextually.

See the TTRPG Bloggies @PrismaticWastes hosted for 2022, which had whole categories dedicated to Theory and Reviews.

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Get pedantic with WFS of Prismatic Wasteland as he reviews Vampire Cruise, a horror-comedy adventure about a luxury cruise ship haunted by wealthy vampires. 🧛‍♀️

What terrible or campy fate awaits players who climb onboard? ⬇️

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Take a fantastic detour with Marcia B. to a wartorn "Uryupean" town where communists, fascists, and liberals wrest for power.

'The Country' is a campaign booklet written by Luke Gearing and laid out by Roz. How does it approach its politicized setting, and to what effect? ⬇️

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Come on a mundane vacation with Emmy Verte as she reviews Cy_Borg, a cyberpunk RPG based on Mork Borg.

What does the book bring to the genre, and how does character restriction or XP motivation interact with player choice?

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Step in to the sepulcher, as Ben L reviews Fresh From the Forge by Lucille Blumire. Why is weapon choice and combat in B/X derived games so ho-hum? What can be done to make it more interesting? Is there a happy medium between theater of the mind and battlemaps? 🔽

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Take a fantastic detour with Marcia B. as she reviews the setting of acid western TTRPG 'Frontier Scum'.

Is it possible to emulate the social dynamics of the West without depicting its atrocities? What does this particular attempt say about capitalism and colonialism? ⬇️

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Bones of Contention is back as Dan reviews Churn Rate by Ian Yusem. Have you ever wanted to play as the xenomorphs in Mothership? Is a jailbreak with tight security the best way to showcase the alien experience? Find out here! https://t.co/uTIE1DGdSG