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...
Yesterday night I played the John Sinclair Abenteuerspiel for the first time. It’s a German roleplaying game based on the popular John Sinclair pulp horror novel series. In the game you play monster/ghost...
StarFinder is the new science-fantasy roleplaying game by Paizo based on their incredibly popular Pathfinder game. It was released a couple of days ago and already third-party supplements created for it dominate the...
During the last months I have repeatedly played with the idea to run a game “powered by the apocalypse”. These games are mechanically based on D. Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World. So what makes...
A while ago, I was wondering why there was no roleplaying game based on Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham’s The Expanse book series which was recently turned into a successful TV series. What...
About a year ago, I wrote a post about how I decided Fate was not for me. I’ve struggled with the game for quite some time, loving it on the one hand and...
Do you like science fiction? Guns? Action? Games like Borderlands or Destiny? The d20 System? Then The Frontier may be for you. The Frontier by One Dwarf Army is a no-frills 90-paged pen...
Since their launch, platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo helped to fund projects which would never have seen the light of day otherwise. Especially in the video game industry noone was willing to take...
Ulisses North America has secured the precious Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game license. This is huge! This not only means that there will be a completely new 40K RPG available soon, but the books...
Patreon has been around for quite some time and it seems it works great for both content creators and their fans. I never have seen my blog as a way to make money,...
If you are into OSR-style games and Vikings you should definitely have a look at the Ice Kingdoms Campaign Setting by Mad Martian Games. It was designed with OSRIC in mind but you...
A couple of days ago this blog has had its 9th anniversary. Over the last nine years 18 authors have written more than 1800 posts about roleplaying games, board games, and other nerdy...
I love genre-agnostic roleplaying games. Mostly because they allow me to dream of using them for my homebrew settings (which of course get never finished). But they are also a great choice if...
I like Fantasy AGE a lot. I tremendously enjoyed the original game using the AGE system, the Dragon Age Roleplaying Game. It even was one of the inspirations for my own fantasy RPG...
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you probably have heard about Stranger Things, a Netflix series, which came basically out of nowhere, but thrilled its audiences. It’s also the only TV...
In May 2012 I wrote a short blog post about the then recent release of the Wanton Roleplaying System (aka WaRP) under the OGL. Most gamers probably never heard of said system before....
I don’t remember when I first learned about Simon Stålenhag‘s work. It might have been the article from The Verge in 2013, or a random blog post I stumbled upon while aimlessly surfing...
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am currently taking a break from GMing. I hung my GM’s mantle on the hanger and for the next few weeks at least I’ll just...
John Wick’s 7th Sea is a pen & paper roleplaying game of swashbuckling and intrigue, exploration and adventure. The 2nd Edition of said game has totally new rules which are very easy, fast,...
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that while there are a lot of posts about how to be a better GM, there are way less about how to be a better...
