Besides being a longtime gamer I have other hobbies. For the longest time I’ve been a comic book fan, I’ve written about it before (here and here), and even if I don’t read...
Over the last decade or so, playing older editions of D&D or their modern simulacra has been pretty popular. Back in the day people wanted to play like in the old days, but...
I have spent nearly all of January reading the ZWEIHÄNDER core book. It is nearly 700 dense pages and I am still only on page 350 or so. The current chapter I am reading...
I am currently reading through the D&D Rules Cyclopedia from 1991 and I’m constantly discovering game aspects that the later editions lack or which have been severely limited in scope. One of these...
Well, my weekend plans went slightly sideways, but in a good way, when I was offered the advance review copy of ANCIENT WORLDS: ATISI. There are details of the crowd funding campaign for this...
I think I mentioned this before but when my group get together and game it happens two or three times a year. We rent a house, the one we have used for the...
Where I game has a huge impact on how I game. For example, I have a group of players that I have gamed with since the late 1970s/1980s. We have got together a...
Welcome back to my second post for October 2017. Like on my previous post, This is a collection of my posts on social media celebrating all things orc in the month of October....
When Ulisses recently announced that they acquired the Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game license I was blown away. This was great news for every 40K fan and the German roleplaying scene. Ulisses is slowly...
I am working on a number of projects at the moment and in an effort to make them as good as I can I am also looking at a lot of other peoples...
Over the weekend I kept thinking about RIFTS and how I could run it without having to rely on the clunky Palladium system. After some googling I stumbled upon a post where someone...
Michael has already shed some light on the various incarnations of the Traveller rules. The sheer number of different versions can be somewhat overwhelming. But once you settled for a given ruleset you...
Saturday once more, we’re almost done with week two, and today we touch on a topic near and dear to my heart, campaigns. It’s also a topic I’ve written about before here in...
And so we come to the end of #RPGaDay2015, this has been a great month, I’ve gotten back to blogging, reconnected with a lot of people, and I’ve pondered lots of interesting bits...
Let’s start another week with the #RPGaDay2015 Challenge! I assure you Michael is still around, I just tied him up and put him in the basement while I take over for a month...
Today I was contacted by Mark Plemmons, designer of the urban fantasy RPG Corporia. He’s a fan of my blog and wanted me to have a complimentary copy of his game. As an...
Yes you read that right! This was supposed to be the 8th installment of the weekly series of posts based on my old Star Wars Infinities campaign. Organizing the information for these posts...