Strands of Fate
Strands of Fate is a heavily modified version of the FATE rules written by Mike McConnell. The idea behind Strands of Fate was to create a streamlined version of FATE which can be...
October 11, 2010
2010
Dawn of a New Age, Part 1
This is the first installment of my experiment at sharing with you, our dear reader, some of the fiction I have written for my upcoming supers game. You, along with my players, will...
October 11, 2010
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Gaming fiction weal or woe?
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
October 11, 2010
Games I was sad to see go away…
I guess we’ve all had them. The system you love; the one you can’t wait for the next supplement to come out for. And then all of a sudden, BOOM, cancelled! Thankfully in...
October 8, 2010
“A rose by any other name…” Poetry and Role Playing Games
The much quoted line in this post’s title is from a play you might have heard about, Romeo and Juliet, written by a Billy Shakespeare. This guy was old school, so much so...
October 7, 2010
RPG books on the iPad
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
October 6, 2010
Gears is not dead yet
Some of you may still remember that I was working on another RPG project earlier this year, called Gears. In June I decided to put Gears on a backburner and focused more on...
October 5, 2010
PAX Celebrity Dungeons & Dragons
While I was at PAX Prime this year I went and saw the Pax Celebrity Dungeons & Dragons game. I was maybe sitting 5 rows back. The game featured Wizards of the Coast...
October 5, 2010
Review: Kingdom Builder Generator Pack II
In February I previewed Chaotic Shiny Productions’ Kingdom Builder Generator Pack I which I helped to beta test back then. Some time ago Hannah Lipsky finished the new Kingdom Generator Pack II which...
October 4, 2010
The IT Crowd – Series 1-4 Special Edition Box Set
The IT Crowd is one of the favorite shows of geeks all around the world. A couple of days ago a special edition DVD box set including all four series has been released....
October 4, 2010
Fallout: Indianapolis – From SPECIAL to Atomic Highway
When I started converting the Fallout world to the Atomic Highway rules I encountered a few problems. No Vehicles? Aside from the Chryslus Motors Highwayman in Fallout 2 and the Enclave Vertibirds there...
October 4, 2010
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Free Stuff Friday: A Death Certificate
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: A Death Certificate I think we can all agree that when a player characters dies in...
October 1, 2010
Stargazer’s World Book Club: And the winner is…
Sometime ago I proposed the idea of starting a virtual book club here in the blog. The original post received a lot of feedback and interest but sadly real life kept me away...
October 1, 2010
Love the setting, hate the game!
I think we’ve all gone through it. We hear about it and we are intrigued… We finally get it to it and we love the concept… But, when we get to actually doing...
September 30, 2010
From The Imperial Library
Today I uploaded the latest WR&M supplement to DriveThruRPG. From The Imperial Library, written by Brian Brousseau is the official WR&M magic supplement. It not only contains several alternate magic systems, but also...
September 29, 2010
What about the Magus? A new Pathfinder RPG playtest…
I don’t know how I missed this… As the resident Pathfinder guy I should have been all over this, work be dammed! How did I miss the new Pathfinder RPG playtest? Well let...
September 29, 2010
Book Club Reminder!
Just a quick reminder, after probably waiting too long, I finally made a post about starting the Stargazer’s World Book Club. I’m waiting for feedback on the possible books or games we could...
September 29, 2010