Cracking the Casket of Souls

And a bonus mailbag episode!

This week I reviewed my last puzzle “game book” for a while: Casket of Souls by Games Workshop founder Ian Livingstone. It has even better art than its prequel The Tasks of Tantalon and the puzzles seem more doable to me, although some are still really obtuse! It was interesting to see all the ways that the author found to hide the “Royal Treasures” in the artwork. I think a lot of them could be used as DnD puzzles, maybe as murals on a dungeon wall.

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• For paid supporters and Patreon people, here’s the latest mailbag episode. I’ve been getting a lot of books recently, so please let me know in the comments if one of them stands out to you as something that deserves a full review. There was some really interesting options this time, including a scifi worldbuilding book, several zine collections, a Mork Borg books about pigs…in space, and one of the most beginner-friendly boxed sets I’ve seen.