3 Sci-Fi Bestiary Reviews

For once, I am actually on time and really reliable. Happy All Hallow’s Eve Eve, ye goblins and other, more different goblins.#1:Unconfirmed Contact Reports(Tuesday Knight Games, 2023; writing by Izzy Bull, Luke Gearing, Fiona Maeve Geist, Alan Gerding, Tyler Kimball, Wendy Pippin, Donn Stroud, David N. Wilkie)Friend of the blog semiurge beat me to the punch on this one, and I’m glad he did because his post is why this post got done.I think UCR is a bad monster book by most standards, and a very bad book by Mothership standards. MoSh thrives on “the monster is the scenario” module design (since the wounds mechanic gives those monsters a built-in structure for encounters that change across multiple stages and it was intentionally designed as such) so throwing a single minimalist statline and some vague flavor blurbs does the whole work a disservice. It’s not got enough mechanical juice to be good MoSh material, and it's not got enough stylistic sauce to be a good riff on Fire on the…