New Tunnels & Troll magazine
Dan Prentice just informed a about the cool new Tunnels & Troll magazine called “TrollsZine” that he is publishing together with Kevin Bracey. Issue #1 has been released yesterday and the 57-paged PDF...
March 3, 2010
2010
Microlite Interview with Robin Stacey
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams, my old RPG blog, on January 17th, 2010.
March 2, 2010
Chronicles of the Four Dragons
Chronicles is one of the many game designs I have floating around on my hard disk. And like most of these abandoned projects, it’s totally untested, probably extremely unbalanced and unfinished. But it...
March 2, 2010
Dungeonslayers: The Runes of Oblivion
Yesterday Christian Kennig released another one-page dungeon for his free, old-fashioned roleplaying game Dungeonslayers. Here’s the blurb from the official site: “Get up!” – the elf came slowly to. What’s going on? What...
March 2, 2010
Ask The Readers: What’s your favorite genre?
We all know that the game that started it all in 1974 was firmly set into the fantasy genre and without doubt tolkienesque fantasy is still the favorite genre for most roleplayers. But...
March 1, 2010
Fearsome Floors
After your great welcome, I am really eager to get my first article out of the door. Therefore I have decided to give you a short review of one of my favorite light...
February 26, 2010
What about Pathfinder? A review…
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has been out for a while, since August 2009, and it’s made me a happy gamer so far! So if you want the short of it there you have...
February 26, 2010
d20 Modern Unlimited Forums
Believe it or not, d20 Modern is still alive and kicking. Not only is there a Microlite20 Modern variant for those of you who’ve been following along with my trek through the microlite...
February 25, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Un Gioco di Ruolo All’Antica
It seems Dungeonslayers can’t be stopped! Just a few weeks ago I wrote about the French version and just yesterday an Italian publisher has released an Italian translation. This is actually the first...
February 25, 2010
Three more blogs you should be reading
In January I recommended three blogs you should be reading. Although that post didn’t get as many attention as I hoped, I still think it’s a good thing to point out interesting blogs...
February 24, 2010
Organizing a regulars’ table
Some time ago I was asked by an old friend if I would like to participate in a regulars’ table focused on the RPG hobby. He already had decided on a location and...
February 23, 2010
Poll: Should “Stargazer’s World” cover non-RPG topics as well?
I recently made sure that the RPG Bloggers Network only gets the RPG-related posts by creating a special RPG-only RSS feed. This change had become necessary because I wanted our new team member...
February 22, 2010
Monday Bonus: More SotU-Related Content
As I was gathering information on Searchers of the Unknown, I came across a comment that there was more floating about on the internet related to the game than just Swashbucklers of Mars....
February 22, 2010
Gears: Skills
This time I want to talk about skills in Gears. In my last post about Gears I explained how the core mechanic works. Usually you roll 3d6 (add some modifiers) and compare the...
February 22, 2010
Castlemolds Review
Ever since I started playing Dungeons & Dragons fourth edition early last year I have read all I can about the game to try and make the gaming experience as fun and enjoyable...
February 22, 2010
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Weekend Doubleshot Review
So far in my exploration of microlite gaming, I have stuck with games that have taken a single particular approach — taking an existing game and attempting to condense the rules while still...
February 21, 2010