Stargazer’s World 10th Anniversary
Yes, you’ve got that right, this very blog is now over 10 years old! When I started this blog in August 2008 I never would have thought that it would still be a...
August 10, 2018
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Future Plans
While Roberto is providing you with a constant stream of awesome videos tied into this year’s RPGaDay, I am musing about what kind of content I could create in the foreseeable future. I...
August 8, 2018
Three Kickstarter Projects Worth Your Time and Money
Especially in a niche hobby like pen & paper roleplaying games raising money for a new product is not always easy. The various crowdfunding platforms have made things much easier over the years,...
August 6, 2018
Cthulhu Confidential: From a Player’s Perspective
Cthulhu Confidential is the latest in the series of GUMSHOE roleplaying games by Pelgrane Press. It’s also the first game using the GUMSHOE One-2-One rules which have specifically be designed to faciliate roleplaying...
July 31, 2018
Kickstarter: Esoterica
It seems Greg Saunders is on a roll! He just started a Kickstarter for Esoterica, his newest Open D6-based roleplaying game. The other two, Exilium and Summerland, were finished in early 2017 and...
July 16, 2018
White Wolf: The Edginess
Currently an article is discussed all over social media which claims that White Wolf Publishing is actively marketing towards a new audience: Nazis and the alt-right. On first glance some of the points...
July 11, 2018
Our Hobby Is Dying!
This is a claim we all have heard before. I am pretty sure that this notion first started just weeks after D&D was first released. For some reason people all over the world...
July 3, 2018
Games I’ve Played
Recently my friend Roberto posted on Twitter about all the games he has played over the years. Including the various D&D editions, he has played over 70 different games in his gaming career...
July 2, 2018
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
If you are active on Twitter you might have noticed that people have recently begun using the hashtag #DnDGate while posting about literally “gates in D&D” or how what their gateway into D&D...
June 22, 2018
5th Edition Session Zero
Yesterday evening my players and I met to speak about D&D 5th Edition, the Tal’Dorei setting, and eventually create their characters. I was actually surprised how much thought the players have already put...
June 19, 2018
The Long Way To Tal’Dorei
Repeatedly I have praised D&D 5th Edition as my favorite edition of the venerable fantasy RPG, but I’ve actually not played it that often nor would I consider myself part of the D&D...
June 6, 2018
New D&D 5E Campaign Settings are Just Around the Corner
The site comicbook.com were the first to break the news. Obviously they spoke with Nathan Stewart, the Brand Director and Executive Producer of Dungeons & Dragons, at a recent event where he hinted...
June 5, 2018
Kickstarter: Nothing Stays Forgotten
Recently Kendel Ventonda contacted me and let me know about the “Nothing Stays Forgotten” Kickstarter project. The roleplaying game has already been released in German under the name “Die Vergessenen Chronicles” a while...
May 23, 2018
Excited about D&D again!
I made the mistake of looking closer into Matthew Mercer’s Critical Role videos. If you haven’t been living under a rock you probably have heard about Critical Role already. In this series of...
May 18, 2018