A look at Low Fantasy Gaming
In one of my previous posts I have confessed my new-found love in all things OSR. All those D&D simulacra available are full of cool ideas, an old-school charm, and a wonderful sense...
February 2, 2017
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Actual Play Report: Shadowrun Anarchy
Yesterday I ran Shadowrun Anarchy for my friends. Six of my “Stargazer’s Irregulars” showed up at 2 pm and after chatting, making jokes, and putting way too much snacks on the table we...
January 22, 2017
My Thoughts on Shadowrun: Anarchy
Shadowrun: Anarchy is the game I have been waiting for since I first played Shadowrun 1st Edition back in the 1990s. Anarchy is an alternate ruleset for 5th Edition Shadowrun which allows a...
January 17, 2017
Some Ramblings on the OSR, RIFTS, and more
A couple of years back the OSR was a mystery to me. For me it was strange that people put so much work and effort into reviving such an old game as the...
January 14, 2017
My Gamer ADD is again in Full Swing
At the moment thousands of ideas are rushing through my head. I am looking at various roleplaying games at the same time, think about converting others, look into what’s coming up in the...
January 11, 2017
Let’s Talk Again About RIFTS
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...
January 9, 2017
Let’s Talk about RIFTS
RIFTS is probably one of the first RPGs I played back in the day. I still remember the demise of my first RIFTS character, who forgot to wear his MDC armor before trying...
January 7, 2017
Hidden Gem: The Unexplained
Yesterday I bought a copy of Carnivore Games’ The Unexplained, a Fudge-based game in which you play members of a group investigating paranormal phenomenon. And from what I’ve seen so far it is...
January 7, 2017
Happy New Year … and I got Darkest Dungeons in my White Box
Wow. That title is a mouthful, but let’s not digress and get to the matter at hand! At first I want to wish all the readers of Stargazer’s World and all current and...
January 1, 2017
Interview: Contact RPG
Recently I wrote about the Contact RPG Kickstarter, which unfortunately was unsuccessful. After doing the review of the PDF version I also asked Robert Hamberger, author of Contact, to do an interview for...
December 6, 2016
Lazy Tuesday Video Post: Nuka Break
As some of you may be aware of, I am a huge Fallout fan. I think picked up the first game in the series shortly after it came out and I was immediately...
December 6, 2016
A Look at the Cepheus Engine
My current series of Traveller-related posts would not be complete without having a look at the Cepheus Engine SRD. Many people have called “Traveller with the serial numbers filed off” and from what...
November 15, 2016
First Look: CONTACT – Tactical Alien Defense RPG
Contact is one of the few roleplaying games created in Germany who eventually were released in English language. I have to admit I totally missed the release of the English PDF on DriveThruRPG...
November 14, 2016
Some Thoughts on Mongoose Traveller
In one of my recent posts I was looking into the various Traveller editions out there. But there were two editions which I left out completely: Mongoose Traveller (or MgT for short) and...
November 14, 2016
Fixing XXVc
First things first: XXVc is not necessarily a broken system. I am sure there are GMs and players who are perfectly fine with the system. But for me and my group it doesn’t...
November 10, 2016
XXVc: It’s Complicated …
I have been running TSR’s Buck Rogers XXVc for a while now and slowly the problems inherent with the system start to show. At first glace the game seems to work quite well....
November 9, 2016
Traveller: OTU, MTU, or something completely different?
When running Traveller you basically have these options: You can run a game set into the Official Traveller Universe (OTU), which is the so-called Charted Space in the official timeline. You can make...
November 8, 2016