Why Fudge needs a new edition
I’m assuming you guys already know what Fudge is. If not I recommend you check out the official Fudge site or my previous Fudge posts. After that, please come back. You’re back? Great....
February 29, 2012
February 2012
Freebies: The Microlite20 RPG Collection 2012
Microlite20 is a rules-light version of the d20 System, that is quite popular among the authors of this blog. Recently someone pointed out the Microlite20 RPG Collection 2012 to me. It’s a compilation...
February 29, 2012
You can never have too many maps! An interesting Kickstarter…
The emergence of patron backed publishing projects certainly caught me by surprise. By now I am familiar with Kickstarter and other similar endeavors and while I have promoted several I considered worthy and...
February 28, 2012
Review: Ruined Empires
Ruined Empires is an 43-paged adventure for Abney Park’s Airship Pirates (read my review here) written by the games’ authors Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton. And as in the rulebook Abney Park’s Robert...
February 27, 2012
Lazy Friday Video Post: “Age of Oppression” Skyrim cover
I think I mentioned before that the soundtrack to the highly successful computer and video game “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim” works perfectly as background music for your roleplaying game session. I haven’t? Then...
February 24, 2012
Vaeringar Borderlands
Yesterday I continued to work on my SS&S campaign. I got some tips from Ralf Schemmann (thanks again Ralf!) on how to properly create a map in CC3 and following his advice I...
February 24, 2012
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Ask the readers: Tools of the trade, RPG book transportation!
I’m on the last leg of my current Mutants & Masterminds Dawn of a New Age campaign. It’s gone on longer than I planned and we are having a blast, I am really...
February 23, 2012
The Known Lands of Vaneria
For the longest time fans of the Warrior, Rogue & Mage RPG have been wondering how the lands of Vaneria look like. This question is now answered! Matt Jackson, blogger and cartographer extraordinaire,...
February 22, 2012
Into The Odd
I think I have talked about Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd on Stargazer’s World already. It’s a very cool fantasy game with horror and sci-fi elements that is reminiscent of OD&D. But instead...
February 22, 2012
First impression: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Yesterday the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game by Margaret Weis Production has been released in PDF form. I’ve been looking forward to this game for a while, mostly because I heard good things about...
February 22, 2012
The games I played …
Recently someone asked me to list all the games I’ve played or run over the years. It actually took me a while to remember all (or at least most of them) and today...
February 21, 2012
I want to be a spy, the interplanetary kind!
My recent post about TV inspiration has me musing about all the different inspirations that influenced me as a gamer. Probably many of you played the Choose Your Own Adventure books, and I...
February 21, 2012
And the winner is …
On February 13th I asked you to post your favorite gamer food recipes. Today I checked all the contest entries and picked the recipe I liked best. And the winner is Parker Emerson’s...
February 20, 2012
Adventurer Conqueror King
This morning I stumbled upon “Adventurer Conqueror King” on RPGNow. It’s a roleplaying game based on OD&D and using the OGL that has a focus on what I would call the “endgame”. The...
February 17, 2012
Inspired by Television
Television programs have long inspired role-playing games; we have adapted concepts from TV into games, like arcs, episodes, etc. Books on scriptwriting have been incredibly useful for me when creating adventures. This “season”...
February 16, 2012
Review: Campaign Cartographer 3 and Addons
Campaign Cartographer 3 is definitely one of the RPG tools I wish I had more time to work with. When you design your own campaign setting or even if you’re just running a...
February 15, 2012
Geek Love Rules!
It’s Valentine’s Day, people, the perfect opportunity to get your significant other geek a gift from DriveThruRPG. Under the motto “Geek Love Rules” they have complied a list of romance-related RPG products that...
February 14, 2012