Gen Con here I go!
I realize it maybe a little premature to be so excited about it, Gen Con Indy is still over a month and a half away, but I feel like a kid the night...
June 17, 2011
June 2011
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What about Faces of the Tarnished Souk: The Ghost Light That Dreamed, Gozutozawa? A review…
With a name that long, that title pretty much takes care of the review. It’s certainly a mouthful! This is a short book in PDF format detailing one of the many strange inhabitants...
June 16, 2011
“This Just In … From Gen Con” needs your help
Gen Con Indy is a quite expensive event and also a lot of work if you want to cover it on a blog or podcast. So it’s great that even if you don’t...
June 16, 2011
The sword is mightier than the laser gun – or is it?
My love for everything SF started back when I was still in elementary school. For a while I had been admiring the silver hardcover books with those fancy covers that my father had...
June 15, 2011
Fun with Photofunia
On the German RPG Blog “Cthulhu’s Ruf” I read about Photofunia, a service that allows you to apply all kinds of interesting effects onto your portrait photos. Aside from being a perfect time...
June 15, 2011
Support the Stargazer!
Some of you may already have noticed that I added a new widget to the right sidebar of the blog titled “Support the Stargazer!”. The widget contains links to my Amazon wishlists (on...
June 14, 2011
Get 20% off of selected titles at DriveThruRPG until July 10th
A couple of days ago I got another discount code for selected products at DriveThruRPG that I am allowed to share with my esteemed readers. As in the months before you get 20%...
June 14, 2011
Putting my (hypothetical) money where my mouth is!
It’s an old adage (and yes I do love that word, I’ve used it often enough) that it’s not the system; it’s the Game Master that makes the role playing experience enjoyable. As...
June 14, 2011
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Follow up Castles & Crusades Unboxing (Now with Moving Pictures!)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgyh6I35rE] The above video and this post are a follow up to a post I wrote titled: Castles & Crusades Unboxing. It was particularly about the shipping and the conditions of...
June 13, 2011
What about The Gift: Curse of the Golden Spear Part 1? A review…
The Gift is part one of a three part series (they call it a campaign arc at the Rite Publishing website) of adventures for the Pathfinder RPG system, this installment is for four...
June 10, 2011
Interview with Jeremy Keller
Recently I have been posting a lot about Technoir, the upcoming cyberpunk RPG by Jeremy Keller. This game has impressed me tremendously and actually made me sign up for Kickstarter, so I could...
June 9, 2011
Ready to become the BADASS you always dreamed to be?
Stargazer Games and Jay Steven Anyong, the Philippine Gamer, are proud to announce the release of BADASS, the game that kicks logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes...
June 8, 2011
Crazy Campaign Chronicles: Childhood toys…
Introductory note: I wrote a previous post on this series about those crazy ideas one gets for campaigns and never gets to plays. This is a little different because I got to try...
June 7, 2011
Update on the Technoir RPG Kickstarter
Some days ago I told you about the Technoir RPG and that it’s author Jeremy Keller started a project on Kickstarter to fund creation of a full-color softcover book. The initial goal of...
June 7, 2011
“Spanish, Spanish, Spanish saving throw, Spanish”: Role-Playing in different languages
Recently I had a tweet exchange with Shaun and Michael about which language we role-played in, and Shaun wrote an excellent post about languages in RPG games here in the blog last week....
June 6, 2011
Stargazer Games presents … BADASS!
Have you ever wanted to play a game that kicks that logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes it cry for its momma? Jay Steven Anyong’s BADASS is...
June 6, 2011