It's super helpful for the mechanics so that you don't have to read the massive corebook before playing a one shot or diving into the game, but there's a lot left unexplained and some things that are super necessary that aren't covered at all.

Full of spelling mistakes, and while it promises a good time, it's literally just a description of NPCs and the location. Outside of what boils down to "here's how the big bad showed up" there's almost nothing to help point the way on where to actually go. It gives a numbered list of locations, but doesn't say anything else. Everything is up to the GM, which means if the GM interprets something away from the vague nonsense here, the story becomes unfinishable.

The backstory is an ideological diatribe which soured my first impression of the game, but the gameplay sections are a smoother read, with the author mostly down from his soapbox and focused on (what looks like) a compelling system with a nice amount of depth for use in longer campaigns. Overall, an interesting setup, and the muck of a backstory looks to be easily separated from the rest of the game mechanics and setting, allowing for an enjoyable rpg experience without the armchair politics.

An excellent hybrid of role-playing and party game, with a huge dose of improv comedy. Wrapping my head around the way this game works gave my old-school brain new insights on how a game could be run. Plus, I'm a long-time Shondaland fan, so I was a sucker for this game from the get-go. Very nice work.

Fae's Anatomy is a ten-dollar joy engine that's easy to learn, quick to teach, and promises to deliver a full scenario in three hours or less. The logic puzzle at its core provides a dramatic framework, but the real fun comes from your table improvising their way through a fantasy omni-universe, filling the world with whimsy and caprice en route to saving the patient. Or failing to save the patient, bringing the patient back to life, and then saving the patient. New players will enjoy dipping their toes into RPGs without memorizing 300 pages of lore, rules, and exceptions to rules; older players will enjoy a well-earned break from hard crunch.

Fae's Anatomy is a simple, lighthearted poke at the nighttime medical dramas from House to (obviously) Grey's Anatomy. The basic rules are simple, and the game's premise is actually a cooperative puzzle solving game. Its got an innovative and simple set of tables to run things as well as a website for easy access. Excellent beginner game for RPGers, and a great palette cleanser too!

One of my favorite games ever. It's just so much fun to run a game, just sit back and present your players with one awful situation and choice after another. The mechanics do a fabulous job of driving the themes of the game (poverty, hard choices) without completely burning out the player.

An interesting plot, good production qualities. And they require fifty words.

Great systemless scenarios that I have run in Cthulhu Dark, COC and even MOTW. Wonderfully evocative setting that has far more soul than the usual aristo chums investigating odd things as a hobby; desperate times make for desperate people, facing nightmares both mortal and eternal and with no wealth score to fall back on. Some incredible new antagonists/threats/monsters from the Wives of March to the hungry beasts beneath Chicago and the stand out new creations of The FIsher of Men and... something else. Never removed from the horrors of the human world but revealing even darker aspects of it.

Oh and a perfect scenario for a dusk-till-dawn style suprise if you can somehow trick your players into running a mountain-climbing challenge without tipping your hat :D

I had the PDFs of these but then got the POD; quality is great! My first POD purchase and I'm very, very happy with it.

A brilliantly creepy depression-era adventure, down among the destitute and the despairin. We've got no strings - or so we think. One of the best adventures I've ever run in CoC or Cthulhu Dark, easily adaptable and with some truly despicable (and some truly sympathetic) characters.

A wonderful introduction to Red Markets. Perfect for a one-shot on game nights or as a demo at local game stores or conventions.

This brilliant game of economic horror is even more prescient now than when it was released.

But it's not a dour game; it's central mechanics drive powerful role-playing and storytelling by focusing on the essential elements of drama: what do characters want, what is in their way, and what are they willing to do?

The mechanics are simple to pick-up and play, and the "market" system takes much of the work off the GM's shoulders. Highly recommended for both novice and veteran role-players.

I enjoyed reading this as an ebook, and I enjoyed hearing Fae Kell's narration too!

Lover in the Ice is a Caleb Stokes adventure, which means that it has a ton of theme, and building tension. I've listened to actual play of this several times. Its always a wonderful, slow build game.

I used the Quickstart adventure to run the game for the first time on Saturday. I can't speak for the clarity of the rules, since I have just finished reading the entire book. I copied oiut the pre-gen characters from the adventure to the charactersheets provided and let the 4 players choose. One had the foresight to ask, are there any that are important to have? Yes, you pretty much need to have Cosmetologist on the Crew. It was my first time running the game or even playing it and it was the players first time playing the game. I think one of them had heard of it before.

I managed to exhaustively explain the rules, there really aren't that many rules. We used the Bust rule: "+1 or it can't be done", which led to only one person being able to sneak around. We then played through Negotiation and the adventure and were able to complete everything in about 4 hours, but the PCs did nope out of nearly all the legs and avoided - due to strategy- both complications at the job site. One final note for convention play: the game can be very dark and disturbing, so tone that down in play when you don't know the players ahead of time, especially if they are brand new to the game. The Quickstart adventure isn't especially dark, but there is one touchy element that can be easily left out for the sensitive.

As for Red Markets on the whole, I have the following to say: It was so EASY to run! Not having anything to roll or anything was a piece of cake. The casualties being two numbers mass/distance was so liberating! I never had to invent an NPC. I got to role play two NPCs invented by the players and two NPCs invented by the author.