The Secret of my Success…
Like a mailroom clerk with dreams of greatness, of getting that corner office with a view, I too picked up a gaming book long ago and embarked on this journey we call role...
March 19, 2010
March 2010
Ordo Draconis, a review…
Apparently as a result of my previous review of the Pathfinder RPG (Which many of you seem to have liked, thank you!); I received a review copy of Ordo Draconis #2. What is...
March 18, 2010
New avatar!
Today Kyle Ferrin created a cool new avatar for me. All he needed was a photo of me and $25 that I payed via PayPal. And he did an awesome job. Especially the...
March 18, 2010
Secret dice rolls
When I remember correctly I’ve always rolled behind the GM screen when I was running a game. My first GM did the same, as did most GMs I met in my life. Recently...
March 18, 2010
Our first RPG pub meeting was a success!
Some time ago, I wrote about the plans to organize a regular, RPG-themed pub meeting. Yesterday we finally had our first meeting and it was a great success. More people than we anticipated...
March 17, 2010
Posts from Stargazer’s World will be included in OGT2
I have known this for some time now, but I wanted to wait with this announcement, to give Jonathan Jacobs the chance to post it first: Several of my articles written for Stargazer’s...
March 17, 2010
The most useless RPG-supplements you ever paid money for
I guess we all have done that at least once: There is a new supplement for my favorite RPG, but I am kind of lukewarm about it. I guess, that I will not...
March 16, 2010
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Welcome back to another boardgame review at Stargazer’s World! For my second article I have chosen my newest acquisition: Tales of the Arabian Nights by Eric Goldberg, published by Z-Man-Games. I have to...
March 15, 2010
GUMSHOE Sale on RPGNow
I just read about this on Simon Rogers’ LiveJournal blog: All of our GUMSHOE PDF products are on sale over at rpgnow.com at a 15% discount until 19th March. Our average rating over...
March 15, 2010
Microlite20 Under New Ownership
On March 12th, Robin Stacey (aka Greywulf) announced that he had sold the rights to Microlite20, including microlite20.net, to Seth Drebitko. I quickly asked Robin to get me in touch with Seth, which...
March 13, 2010
Five good things I learned playing D&D 4th edition (or… How I learned not to care about diagonal movement!)
Some of you might have gotten the idea from a previous post that I don’t like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. Nothing could be further from the truth. I played the game for...
March 12, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen’s Duel
I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers. The movie is not only extremely...
March 12, 2010
“Blog of a new RPGer” interview
As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview...
March 11, 2010
Microlite Interview with AntiPaladin Games
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams on January 27th, 2010. There have been a couple small edits.
March 10, 2010
Good news for all Iron Kingdom fans!
I almost overlooked yesterday’s post at Purple Pawn. But then I scrolled back and read the headline again: “It’s Alive: The Iron Kingdoms RPG Lives!" I have to admit I had to rub...
March 10, 2010
Get the “World of Darkness” rulebook for free this week
I just found out that the World of Darkness rulebook is available for free on RPGNow in celebration of “Read an E-Book Week”. This 224-paged PDF is the core rulebook for all “new”...
March 9, 2010