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Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2023

By David Shimomura • November 17th, 2023

We’re not putting up the Christmas decorations yet.

Friction Burns

Never to Return

By Ruth Cassidy • November 15th, 2023

It feels like knowing Pyre’s secrets should remove its surface tensions, but a risk you know how to calculate just makes the gambles feel larger.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Milton Bradley's Vampire Hunter, featuring a large glowing tower in the center of the game board.

What You See in the Dark: Night and Day in Vampire Hunter

By Orrin Grey • November 15th, 2023

Vampire Hunter is a fairly straightforward board game with one exception – you play it in the dark.

Nonhuman Meditations

Where are the Giant Bats?

By Alyssa Wejebe • November 14th, 2023

The shape of vampires could stretch and be more.

Here's the Thing
A moody pen-and-ink drawing from Vampire: The Masquerade showing a man in dark glasses and a motorcycle jacket smoking a cig.

Vampire, and the Importance of a Good Storyteller

By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2023

Rob reminisces about his early days of tabletop RPGs, and how much a bad Storyteller in Vampire: The Masquerade almost torpedoed his interest entirely.

Good Books 2023

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 13th, 2023

Good books feed brains!

Forms in Light
Johnathan E. Reid, the player character from Vampyr, stands in a hospital lit by sodium orange lamps.

Parasites and Predation

By Justin Reeve • November 10th, 2023

While Vampyr has been critically acclaimed for its narrative depth and gameplay mechanics, the architectural design is definitely worth a mention, being at once a thematic and functional cornerstone of the game.

Open World
a poor photoshop mashup of the logo for the old Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 logo and the remake one with the handlebar moustache soldier holding his gun and wearing his bucket hat but something about him just don't look right

Best Of All You Can Play The Whole Game Any Way You Want

By Edward Smith • November 9th, 2023

The rapidity with which games lie to us is so great that we barely notice it on a conscious level. 

Noah's Beat Box

Vamps – Otherwise

By Noah Springer • November 9th, 2023

Repetition and transformation.

Casting Deep Meteo
A screencap from Vampire Hunter D shows the titular hunter reaching towards the viewer. He wears a magnificent hat.

One Thousand Year Old Vampire Hunter D

By Levi Rubeck • November 8th, 2023

While watching Vampire Hunter D, one can’t help but connect it to the relatively recent solo role-playing game Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings.

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