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John Farrell

John Farrell is an affordable housing attorney living in West Chester Pennsylvania. He once travelled the weird west as Carrie A. Nation in Joker's Wild at: https://jokerswildpodcast.weebly.com/

Fever dreams and strange machines — 3 Luka Rejec RPG zines to make your games weird

Luka Rejec's creativity breaks loose with the freedom and experimentation that zines offer

By John Farrell

/ 11 Jul 2025

Fever dreams and strange machines — 3 Luka Rejec RPG zines to make your games weird

Night Drifters: Second Stage preview — GM-less RPG melding teen drama and drag racing

Blackjack mechanics see your characters in tight races for lives and love

By John Farrell

/ 11 Jul 2025

Night Drifters: Second Stage preview — GM-less RPG melding teen drama and drag racing

Daggerheart review — more than a heartbreaker

Darrington Press has pulled out all the stops, and the resulting quality speaks for itself

By John Farrell and Mike Dunn

/ 30 Jun 2025

Daggerheart review — more than a heartbreaker

Sawmill Road is a community driven horror short filmed in the space between truth and suspicion

Southeastern Pennsylvania's film industry is blossoming under its own initiative

By John Farrell

/ 26 Jun 2025

Sawmill Road is a community driven horror short filmed in the space between truth and suspicion

Biplanes protect a floating city from dark gods in indie animation Song in the Sky

An independent horror/action/fantasy that's far more than the sum of its parts

By John Farrell

/ 24 Jun 2025

Biplanes protect a floating city from dark gods in indie animation Song in the Sky

Mausritter RPG boxed set review — small box, near- infinite potential

Attention to detail makes this family weight, inventory based RPG a classic

By John Farrell

/ 24 Jun 2025

Mausritter RPG boxed set review — small box, near- infinite potential

Land of Eem: Dungeoneers Adventure and Underlands Expansion funding now

A massive expansion for kid-friendly RPG Land of Eem

By John Farrell

/ 23 Jun 2025

Land of Eem: Dungeoneers Adventure and Underlands Expansion funding now

Ballads of Oraed review — imagination too unbound for its own good

A beautiful artifact of fantasy adventure, but less useful as a gaming resource

By John Farrell

/ 6 Jun 2025

Ballads of Oraed review — imagination too unbound for its own good

Settlers of a Dead God review — a hex-crawl infestation setting for Old School Essentials

The characters? Bugs. The setting? A giant corpse. The execution? It's complicated.

By John Farrell

/ 6 Jun 2025

Settlers of a Dead God review — a hex-crawl infestation setting for Old School Essentials

Ultraviolet Grasslands 2nd Edition review — take your caravan on a psychedelic journey at the end of all things

It's grand, beautiful, weird, and very worth the effort to experience

By John Farrell

/ 2 Jun 2025

Ultraviolet Grasslands 2nd Edition review — take your caravan on a psychedelic journey at the end of all things

Sidescrolling Lovecraftian horror the Waves of Madness releases, on Digital and Blu-ray — a remarkable meld of practical and digital effects

A film that's much more than it suggests at first

By John Farrell

/ 26 May 2025

Sidescrolling Lovecraftian horror the Waves of Madness releases, on Digital and Blu-ray — a remarkable meld of practical and digital effects

Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet has a production company, teaser, and so many unanswered questions

The more I learn the more confused I become

By John Farrell

/ 22 May 2025

Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet has a production company, teaser, and so many unanswered questions