A Rubbing Taken from the Crypt Wall
A courier came stumbling in from The Game Crafter this week, still brushing grave-dust from his sleeves, and pressed a single card into the Keeper’s talons. The hand that drew it is a familiar one.
- Corrupted Crypts - Solo Dungeon Crawl - Review — Waclaw Trauer’s solo card-crawl where every flipped card might be a headless snake, a playful dragon, or the rune that summons your doom.
From the deeper stacks, for those who already know this artist’s black-inked hand:
- Doom Pilgrim - Random encounters of an otherworldly kind — the same designer’s earlier wander through the weird; more experience than game.
- Elder Space - Science Fiction Doom Pilgrim — the Pilgrim’s engine relocated to the cold dark between stars.
- Vanaheim - a rogue-lite indie dungeon crawl — another Game Crafter delve, kindred in spirit and small-press grit.
Planned excavations resume next cycle.
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– The Keeper
Observes that a card whose meaning must first be deciphered, then survived, is twice the artifact — and files the designer’s imperfect English not as flaw but as the honest accent of a thing made by hand.