Review: EZd6 Wasted Worlds TTRPG!

[@MrFleem]

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Mediocre!

[@theDMsCraft]

lol

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What a day, what a wonderful day!

[@SuperNerd9695]

This guy must be a halfling.

[@theDMsCraft]

Just a note to anyone who just wants the PDF. Scroll further down the sales page.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Craftfather!

[@ericgregory2422]

Rarely does anyone mention, A boy and his dog . That is such a good movie.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

It is!

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NIIIIIICE! I love being exposed to smaller TTRPG games and by far this cvhannel does more to support these creators than any other I've encountered. First time I made a premiere.

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Thank you for your support!

[@retrostoryteller]

RIGHT!

[@SaucyMullins]

Whenever it’s hobby crafting, DM advice, or sensationalist news like this, I always click! Keep it up, prof!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Will do!

[@AdamBragg]

Except that it wasn't a news post. It was an RPG review intentionally disguised as an expose style news release. For shame, Prof DM. You tricked us again.

[@IraRomfh]

The clickbait-y title was more accurate than I could have ever imagine! Well played Prof, well played.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you!

[@thebeatles9]

it's a running joke on the channel at this point

[@lilcwa]

It was a real honor to play at Scotty’s table in one of the early playtest sessions of this truly inspired new EZD6 setting, and it’s even more exciting to see the game in print in its final evolution. Thanks for covering this release, Professor, and for showcasing this latest Runehammer Games offering. Best regards, Chris AKA Li’l C

[@ardentdrops]

Is there such a thing as ethical clickbaiting? If there is Professor DM has mastered the art

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Thank you. Baron DeRopp of Dungeon Masterpiece helped me create this thumbnail.

[@BenVara]

Trapped me good!

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@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 I can’t watch one of Baron’s videos without hearing Mouret’s Rondeau in my head. 😃

[@circlingoverland4364]

In this case the content was more rewarding than what the bait promised.

[@emergentc5398]

😂 Prof mastering the craft before our eyes.

[@FacelessonaThrone]

I can’t believe A Boy and His Dog was called out, this must be a brutal game then!

[@theDMsCraft]

it is =)

[@tomkerruish2982]

"She had no taste."

[@jonhunt1419]

A Boy and His Dog but not Fallout?

[@tomkerruish2982]

@jonhunt1419 Fallout is currently on Amazon, and I'm certain no one wants to deal with their legal team. Yes, it's a TTRPG, not a show, but they'd drag you into court anyway and bankrupt you. Come to think of it, if Ellison weren't dead, he'd sue too. He was rabid in that way.

[@jonhunt1419]

What a world we live in where free advertising = lawsuit

[@doublekrpg]

"Elvis, he's still alive!" I knew it!

[@SuperNerd9695]

It gets me too lol.

[@karlbolt7159]

Thanks Professor! I’d like my survivor to resemble Deathbringer. “With honor and adulation you will surrender your bean cans! They’re my beans now.”

[@asquirrelplays]

EZD6 and Tricube Tales are both criminally underrated. Both are so easy to pick up and run with so little learning. You can breeze through your adventures in those games. It's great. That said, I see Mr. Bova didn't take my offer of $5 to add a post-apocalyptic squirrel in the book. Should have gone all in on the bribe and offered 6.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

YES

[@ennuiincarnate]

Doesn't Australia call those "drop bears?"

[@asquirrelplays]

@@ennuiincarnate That would be koala bears I believe. Though I could be convinced a nuclear apocalypse mutated a squirrel into a such a creature.

[@ennuiincarnate]

@@asquirrelplays My post apoc squirrels are the size of wolves and carnivorous. Pack hunters, not ambush predators. Vegemite behind the ears does not ward them off.

[@asquirrelplays]

@@ennuiincarnate I approve. It's time to take what's OURS!

[@garywalker7422]

Thank you Professor. Great video as always.

[@dezopenguin9649]

Clickbaited into enjoying substantive content! A fine display of the cunning required to survive after the apocalypse!

[@chrispeters5780]

No one captures the daily drama of the TTRPG war better than Professor Dungeon Master! Well played sir. 🙂

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you.

[@davidhoward4955]

I’m just saying-I love all Dungeon Craft videos, but particularly the ones detailing smaller games. That’s how I learned about Index Card RPG.

[@theDMsCraft]

Another great Runehammer game!

[@kalendraf]

Without this review, I probably would have overlooked this game entirely, but it looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for featuring it.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

THIS is why I make videos!

[@danielrowan4716]

I come for the Random Generator Tables. I stay for the possibility of encountering Elvis.

[@misomiso8228]

Hey Dungeon Craft Would be cool if you did a video on your favourite novels that have influenced your DMing and fantasy. They don't have to all be Fantasy, they could be classic, sci-fi, Romance etc etc, just would be an interesting subject! Just an idea!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

I think I did, years ago.

[@pietrayday9915]

Maybe a series of occasional videos focusing in on some genre highlights that could make for some fun source material? For example, the first thing that occurred to me during this review of 'Wasted Lands' was that there's lots of fun post-apocalyptic source material for inspiration for building a home-brew setting for one-shots or even campaigns, with some ideas occurring to me including: - the 'Fallout' TV series and the video games it was based on (these probably need little or no introduction; I like the odd '50s alt-universe aesthetic here, and would love to experiment with other "period" settings) - the wonderful 1950s'post-apocalyptic film classic 'PANIC In the Year Zero' (many of the trappings of zombie apocalypse and Mad-Max style movies appear in this fun Cold War movie about a vacationing family forced to run to the hills and fend off roving gangs of violent beatniks and other desperate survivors in dangerous car chases, sieges, and other stressful encounters) - 'The Day of the Triffids' (novel and film; a post-apocalyptic setting in which most of the population of the world is blinded during a strange meteor shower that brings an alien horde of walking man-eating plants with it; another movie predating 'Night of the living Dead' that sets most of the tropes of what would shortly become the zombie apocalypse genre) - 'The Last Man on Earth' (the early '60s post-apocalyptic vampire film classic and yet another early zombie apocalypse style movie, this one distinguished by a lot of strange gothic imagery, and a bizarre plot twist where some of the "zombies" are actually more "civilized" than the zombie-hunters, forming an apocalyptic gang of their own to fight back; see also the '70s remake 'The Omaga Man' which updates the zombie gang into a mutant doomsday cult, and the GI-era 'I Am Legend' based on the same eponymous novel, which updates the creatures into fast-moving silent CGI monsters, which I didn't like as much, but feel it still has its charms....) - Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' and/or 'The Stand' (films and novles; the alternate-universe Weird Western angle featuring gunslinger-knights in the former, and the supernatural horror angle in the latter, are both quite original and could be quite interesting to work with) - HP Lovecraft's surreal and nightmarish Dreamlands short stories 'Nyarlathotep' and 'The Thing in the Moonlight' (more great supernatural horror to add a Lovecraftian flavor to your apocalypse!) - William Hope Hodgson's 'The Night Land' (novel written in 1912 and set in a post-apocalyptic world where the sun has burned out, the last bastions of humanity huddle in fear in pyramid-fortresses while gigantic Kaiju-like monsters stalk the darkness outside) - 'The Plague' (2006 film produced by Clive Barker about a post-apocalyptic world where all the world's children mysteriously fall comatose at once for a few years, until reawakening basically as a weird variety of "zombie") - 'The Leftovers' (post-apocalyptic TV series about the "leftovers" who try to cling to sanity in a world where a large part of the population mysteriously disappear without a trace for no known reason, leaving behind human wreckage, doomsday cults and other problems to rise up in the wake of a loss of public confidence in the science, government, and religion that are unable to explain why the apocalypse happened or give any comfort and security to the survivors....) - 'Jericho' (a short-lived TV series set in a small town that narrowly survives a mysterious nuclear apocalypse, which introduced some intriguing conspiracy elements into an otherwise familiar survival formula before it was canceled) - H.G. Wells novels: 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds' (which probably need little or no introduction, and are probably among the most famous and earliest post-apocalyptic novels), and the film 'Things to Come' (filmed in 1936, years before the outbreak of WWII, which predicts a sort of alternate-universe version of that war which stretches out for decades until the planet is left a bombed-out ruin ruled by post-apocalyptic warlords and a technologically-advanced secret society that plans to rebuild the world through super-science; weirdly, this might be the very earliest example of many now-familiar post-apocalyptic tropes, including the wastelands bandit-gangs, hordes of shambling zombies stalking survivors, and so on!) - ...and, of course, there are some of the more obvious options in post-apocalyptic media to borrow from, such as the 'Living Dead' movies, the 'Walking Dead' TV series, and the 'Mad Max' films, though these are probably a bit too "familiar" as-is for me to enjoy without a few weird twists added! Anyway, I think some videos suggesting some outside-the-box genre inspirations for various games could be a lot of fun for those of us who enjoy world-building or who are just looking for some fresh ideas!

[@adammcclendon431]

That looks awesome, I like it when a book/genre doesn't take itself too seriously

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you for your support!

[@HeavyTopspin]

The quote text on page 3 with all the slang really took me back to Sigil Cant in Planescape.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks for watching!

[@anthonyspall]

This looks really fun! Thank you for this thoughtful rundown. Look forward to the next one.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Rifts/After the Bomb without the Pain of Palladium, We approve.

[@Spectrulus]

I'm actually grateful for the Kickstarter link you shared! I've been enjoying transitioning from 5E to Shadowdark, though I still run both weekly, and I wouldn't have found any of this without you Professor DM!

[@ShadowsofArchonia]

Woo! Wasted World! Proud to share that back page with you, Professor. My name's right below yours, along with a few others from our crew who playtested onstream.

[@robertwarren4734]

I want to run a Machine Head character named Ritchie Blackmore!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Cool!

[@trikepilot101]

I, as John Lord, would have your back.

[@robertwarren4734]

@@trikepilot101 Loved his playing.

[@cafecrayon0]

Hi all, I love ALL videos by Dungeon Craft... Thanks!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you!

[@zenovkayos5811]

That is so unfair. We want the mission maker in the original ez d6 "fantasy version". That is soooo cool. EZ D6 has become my go to rules light system and a mission maker would make make it perfect. Please DM Scotty. Give us a free supplement fantasy mission maker and random town/npc maker

[@zenovkayos5811]

I literally homebrew everything just based on the ez d6 system If we get random tables like that. It would be the perfect source .

[@theDMsCraft]

Thanks for the idea...I may do that.

[@RBloom0566]

This video sold me on EZ D6 Wasteland! I’ve watched DM Scotty’s vids, but didn’t want to go in on another game system. Well, now I am. Thanks Prof. DM!

[@pietrayday9915]

The indie RPG reviews are much appreciated, and this one sounds like a lot of fun! I just got finished binge-watching 'Fallout' on TV, and - being unfamiliar with the video game franchise - it definitely occurred to me that it would make a fun RPG setting. I'm pretty sure a dedicated RPG for 'Fallout' exists, but I tend to prefer a more "broad strokes" approach to RPG settings that are loosely inspired by my favorite media with a lot of my own invention in there and a bit of a pick-and-choose selection of ideas from similar settings (I've also just re-watched 'Fury Road', and would absolutely mix-and-match some post-apocalyptic ideas from the 'Mad Max' films, too!), and 'Wasted Worlds' seems like a great fit for quick-and-easy, low-stress, broad-strokes post-apocalyptic RPG gaming inspired by 'Fallout' and other gems from that genre!

[@Goshin65]

Originally I didn't really dig EZd6....but I may have to take another look. This sounds pretty darn cool.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL Dungeon Craft videos!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you!

[@abucket14]

i wasn't expecting this to be a positive thing with the way the title is; but i am pleasantly surprised and would love to get me a copy of this.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Cool!

[@brianmcguinness9642]

This reminds me a little of Macho Women With Guns (BTRC, 1988), another amusing post-apocalyptic RPG with simple rules.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks for sharing.

[@KuittheGeek]

I'll definitely have to check this one out. I'm currently playing through a game right now with some of my neighbors using Tiny D6 and we are kind of making out way through the different Tiny D6 games. We started in Tiny Dungeon but through a time wizards tower, the party is now in the post-apocalyptic wasteland a la Fallout and we are using Tiny Wastelands. Next, I plan to take them into space for some Tiny Frontier action, and then I am going to morph it into some cosmic horror with some Tiny Cthulhu. It has been a lot of fun and I ended up buying the Tiny D6 system because of you, Professor DM. I have EZD6 already, but I haven't been able to give it a go yet. But this seems like a good entry for me. We have been having a lot of fun in our Fallout wasteland game. Thanks for the recommend.

[@Venomm12]

This looks like it might be a fun way to run a Borderlands style game

[@theDMsCraft]

Totally!

[@lord17c]

I tried the first D6, and it was rather nice. I'll have to give this book a look see.

[@kontrarien5721]

Came for the apocalypse, stayed for the awesome content. Keep it up Prof!

[@trikepilot101]

Exploding dice are super fun. I wish I could get my group back to Savage Worlds.

[@tygereyes]

Nice job!!! I love that you go out of your way to promote the small and big. Kudos!

[@theDMsCraft]

We small fish love it too =)

[@ScottBaker_]

I watch all the Dungeon Craft videos all the way through! Feed the algorithm!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you kindly!

[@knghtbrd]

I love small/independent games! It's the best content on this channel, IMO. Indie systems tend to be conceptually compact and easy/quick to play, which is exactly what I want in a game.

[@MaxFury75]

"I live, I die, I live AGAIN!!!" Def gonna check this out.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Enjoy!

[@bookstore_troll]

Love the idea and love the mechanics. Easy, fastpaced, concentrated on narrative side of rpgs. Big companies should learn a bit about it...

[@xavierp7658]

Would’ve loved to have seen you on Mr. Welch’s 50 year anniversary video. Was actually surprised that you weren’t one of the 50 channels to participate

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

I wasn't contacted. But I am super slow to respond. So I might not have made a deadline.

[@tomgibbs3223]

Love it! EZD6 is a really great game but the leveling up thing was always missed by me. Hearing that Scotty added it in this time makes me really happy! I will definitely be buying this book! Thanks, Professor!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

You're welcome!

[@MLN89018]

Three days ago! How did I miss this one? I already watched it on patreon, but I usually try to watch again to help the algorithm. I bought this book recently and am running it for the first time tomorrow.

[@himesjb]

just watched Dawn of the Dead again, the original in the shopping mall. I think the Holds would be like this. I need to get this game! Great review, PDM

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Great movie!

[@iPivo]

It is so great to see games focusing on setting other than high fantasy! Thank you for the great content!

[@trynda1701]

Another great review video by Dungeon Craft! 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎 Mutant dinosaurs? Awesome! Romeros? Genius naming! 😃😃😃😃

[@matthewlane8955]

You are so right about the art. I was paging through my old Alternity PHB recently (90’s skill-based sci-fi TTRPG published by TSR), and the art brought me back and made me want to play in the best way ❤

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@WhatIsOntheComicRack]

Cheering at the table is what we all need during the game!!!!!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

YES!

[@DCRey1872]

Your work is keeping me continuing the task of teaching RPGs to youth. Thank you for this work because it demonstrates to me that WE own D&D.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Yes WE do! Game on!

[@Jay-ql4gp]

Delve looks excellent! The Scavie reminds me of the junk lady in Labyrynth. I love it! Thank you! And on Mad Max, I know it wouldn't be possible, but I _really_ wanted to see Chris Hemsworth chew scenery as The Lord Humungous.

[@toddpickens]

Excellent! I'd love to play that game. Way back in high school, me and my best friend wrote a similar game (machismo warriors) after skipping class and watching Jean-Claude Van damme's cyborg. It contained every cliche imaginable for a post-apocalyptic action movie. Or at least most of the ones that mattered. And I like all of the dungeon craft videos.

[@Karlmakesstuff]

Yeaaah! Was looking forward to your take on this, Wasted World is great fun to play 😁

[@theDMsCraft]

Thank you Dan for spolighting independent RPGs....Happy gaming all!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

You are welcome!

[@robertfellrath4935]

Great video, as always. Thanks for pushing this out to the community.

[@YukonJack88]

Okay.... great to see that DM Scottie has be radio active and tossed out another one for us. I was just watching Dave's review of Fallout RPG, and can't help but contrast the two. YOu could literally, just get playing this EZD6 setting kit, and wander off....

[@ingjaldsleikestove]

There are a few creators that regularly produce quality videos, you are one of them. To help you as best I can to make videos like this, I always try to watch them ASAP, like and comment.

[@davidhobbs6292]

Great subversion of clickbait! Well done. 😂 I use Tiny Dungeon as an intro system because of your review, so thanks for covering smaller TTRPGs like EZD6 stuff!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

And it JUST GOT WORSE!

[@shawnhuls1606]

EZD6 is such a simple system with great features to keep players engaged. I’m glad to see DM Scotty expanding the brand. Thanks for featuring it Professor.

[@mikegould6590]

I love post apocalyptic games. I played Gamma World, Car Wars and GURPS Autoduel back in the day Sadly, I can't get my main table to break their addiction to 5E. I'm sitting on a pile of other games I'd like to play, but that's the new reality. I'll look into picking this up, even if I have to build another table of players

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks for watching!

[@HeadCoach-l8v]

Great review I will check it out. This is another example of why I love all Dungeon Craft videos.

[@theDMsCraft]

Agreed!

[@OneFootWall]

"It's made from people! PEOPLE!"

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Lol!

[@GreenSkinGentleman]

This is a great review, you can definitely use this as a resource too. Would like to see reviews of adventures you can slap in your existing game in 5e or other ttrpgs too.

[@AgranakStudios]

Love it! Really cool that there is a leveling system now. Hopefully, EZD6 2e will have it too!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

That would be cool!

[@jacobgerhard9525]

One of our voices in the wilderness! Adding this one to the ever growing wish list!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you!

[@whatinflecktarnation]

This is perfect for what I was in the mood for. I wanted a good set of rules for a Gangs of Necromunda - type game, and this looks like the ticket!

[@calebwidogussy452]

Actually looks amazing. Excellent titling Professor.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks!

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

I love Soylent Green 💚 It reminds me of grandmas cooking 😊

[@cohort29]

That kind of Mission Maker is what I look for most in RPG books now.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

There will be a good one in Deathbringer. Stay tuned.

[@wingusryu8289]

i have the trilogy and we play every week. Book of Quests is written so well. This is how adventure modules should be written. Has helped me improve my adventures too. I hope he makes a Call of Cthulhu type of world next

[@rlgood]

Scotty is running a thing called Eldritch City Blues over on Shadows of Archonia. So it's coming.

[@CountLuciferLeviatha]

This is cool! Love learning about new books and third party games

[@BobWorldBuilder]

Great overview, Professor! :)

[@RisingBean]

This looks like it's up my alley. Something to tinker with until Tales of the Valiant gets here. Consider me sold.

[@RPG_Bliss]

Just scooped up the 3 books for EZd6! I am super excited to try it out!!!

[@thecaveofthedead]

You think you're going to lose out by having so few rules. Buy EZ d6 has just enough to keep things surprising, but it moves so fast that the action and combat actually feels more realistic in some way. Definitely worth checking out and trying.

[@jcraigwilliams70]

Worth mentioning (because I don't think you did, unless I missed it) is that you need the original EZD6 to play, as this is a "playset" not a standalone game. I like EZD6 a lot and I think it should get more attention. I also wish more people knew about the Action Tales! games which play something like a mix of EZD6 (simplicity) and Fate Core (narrative approach). Action Tales! are pretty much an evolution of the author's Freeform Universal game.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks for clarifying.

[@crazyscotsman9327]

I see a professor dungeon master video I watch it that simple.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you.

[@MemphiStig]

It's the Apocalypse! Run for your dice!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Lol. True.

[@Porphyrogenitus1]

"The more vehicles that wind up rekt, the better" #DeathRace2000 vibe there (I know I know they're going for that Mad Max feel - I grok! I'm into that too!)

[@MagneticDavid]

I always love Professor Dungeon Master's perspectives and his support of independant RPG's.

[@WannaBeRockStar800]

Just saw this in my recommendations today. I play EZD6 and have many times looked up EZD6 videos on KZbin.

[@GKahla]

Dungeon Craft is a great, consistent source for new indie games with an old-school flavor. Awesome!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thanks!

[@seannicolson136]

I wouldn't have thought that soylent green would bother Deathbringer - but maybe he's avoiding over processed foods.

[@BattleWarPath]

Just a note, Wasted World is not a game, it is a play set, on the first page states that you still need the EZD6 core book

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

True, true.

[@cattrucker8257]

I love the running joke you now have with the uber-clickbait algorithm-poaching titles and thumbnails. No irony, it's genuinely hilarious.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

And it JUST GOT WORSE!

[@Adrian_Lee6113]

I have to admit, your titles for videos are fantastic. 😂

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Glad you like them!

[@doctor_foobario]

The mission maker looks really good - gives enough aspects and detail without being too crazy. Great review as always prof

[@Dhyfis]

I've been baited, bamboozled, and very entertained. I'll need to give a look, and probably a purchase. Gotta support the little guy. Not my favorite setting, but the system looks solid and I'm sure I could mod it or find someone who has modded it for others.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Not my go to genre, but loved it!

[@JoshuaHenson-h5g]

Thanks for covering this! I've been wanting to check this out

[@normanlennox4949]

I love all Dungeon Craft videos. Another one to add to my "Other RPGs to try" playlist. Please keep 'em coming.

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Glad you like them!

[@GreenSkinGentleman]

Thats a good idea for a playlist. I chuck everything to a single watch later playlist, forget about it, then discover it again 2 years later.

[@lukerogers9348]

Ok you fooled me with the click bait. Well done, Professor DM. Also, thank you for reminding me to look into "EZ d6."

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Cool!

[@steelmongoose4956]

DC 20 has been filling my radar screen lately, and I might have missed this if not for your video. I need post-apocalyptic/sci-fi EZD6 on my shelf. Edit: Already sold out! That’s good news, even if it means I’ll have to wait. Congratulations, Scotty!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Thank you!

[@Game.Master.Allen83]

Looks awesome and fun!! Thanks for sharing Prof. DM

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

My pleasure!

[@RyuuKageDesu]

Looks like a lot of fun. The title of the video gave me pause, but I was not disappointed.

[@Megatron4Life23]

Dungeon Craft is my favorite channel on KZbin. Great work as always PDM!!!

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Wow, thanks!

[@JartistDnd]

The Clickbait... We've been bamboozled into another Rpg Review! Worth it!

[@markfaulkner8191]

I love all Dungeoncraft videos. Especially the indie RPG reviews!