Contest: Game Music for your recipes!
Earlier today I purchased a copy of the Game Music Bundle including one extra copy for a friend. This extra copy I will give away for free! So what do you have to...
February 13, 2012
February 2012
Strategy game meets RPG
On the weekend I downloaded a game called “Rebuild” onto my iPad. In this game you reclaim a city one square at a time after a zombie apocalypse. The game has a few...
February 13, 2012
Diseases in roleplaying games
Earlier that week I have been coping with a nasty cold. My head felt like someone smashed it with a sledgehammer, I was freezing all the time, overall I felt awful. And don’t...
February 10, 2012
The trouble with social conflicts
I have been roleplaying for about two decades now but there’s still one thing that causes me headaches as a GM: social conflicts. Usually when player characters act in a roleplaying game, it’s...
February 9, 2012
Vampire Cyberpunk!
Ok so that title is a little misleading… I’m not planning a strange mash up entitled The Masquerade 2020, what I am working on an alternate future story for my possible Vampire the...
February 8, 2012
Just when I thought the Iron Kingdoms RPG was vaporware …
When you’ve followed the blog for a while you might have noticed that I am a huge fan of the Iron Kingdoms setting by Privateer Press. But I also thought that D&D 3.0/3.5...
February 7, 2012
Feb-Wu-ary!
Third Eye Games’ Eloy Lasanta just reminded me that February 2012 is the 2nd Annual Wu Xing Giveaway Month. So what does that mean? At first you get a free copy of Wu...
February 7, 2012
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Game Mastering Conundrums… Limiting player choices!
For those wondering why there was no post yesterday, the Stargazer is sick! Doesn’t seem to be anything life threatening (sorry guys we are not inheriting the blog just yet!). With our fearless...
February 7, 2012
Cubicle 7 Sale at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG
Recently Cubicle 7 has reduced the prices for a lot of their products on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. You can get the excellent Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein (read my review here) for mere $10 for...
February 3, 2012
My points of light…
Who knew that former US President George H. W. Bush was a Game Master, and a groundbreaking pioneer at that! He spoke about points of light campaigns in 1989 almost twenty years before...
February 2, 2012
How not to run a Kickstarter to fund your RPG
Kickstarter and similar services like IndieGoGo provide a great way of raising funds for creative projects. In the last year I’ve backed a couple of projects and all of them turned out great....
February 1, 2012
Dungeonslayers: First sneak peek at the 4th Edition
Reports that the English version of Dungeonslayers 4 is vaporware are highly exaggerated. DS 4 is alive and well and Christian Kennig has released the updated character creation as a teaser today! The...
February 1, 2012