Mindjammer Kickstarter final 48 hours!
The Mindjammer Kickstarter has been pretty strong so far and has now entered itslast 48 hours. If you haven’t decided to back it yet, now’s your last chance, The project has been funded...
December 18, 2015
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Kickstarter: Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game
Sarah Newton’s Mindjammer is one of my favorite roleplaying game settings. It’s one of the few transhumanist SF settings which I can wrap my head around. One reason is probably that Sarah’s novel...
November 23, 2015
Is Anyone Still Playing Alternity?
TSR’s Alternity Roleplaying Game is one of my favorite games which I never actually played. It’s a generic science fiction roleplaying game which has some interesting mechanics, is somewhat related to AD&D, and...
November 18, 2015
Let’s Play Vampire
After talking to several of my players and thinking it through for a while, I came to the conclusion that I should run a short Vampire: 20th Anniversary Edition chronicle in the future....
October 27, 2015
I’ve Got The World Of Darkness On My Mind
Even though I am still running Star Trek using Where No Man Has Gone Before at the moment, I am already making plans for what to run after that. A while back I...
October 22, 2015
So You Want to Run A Hard SciFi Campaign?
A friend of mine is currently working on a scifi campaign set into our solar system. Instead of a campaign spanning lightyears he plans to focus on our own cosmic backyard. Instead of...
October 20, 2015
Some Thoughts on “A Time Of War”
Recently I had the chance to create a character for Catalyst Game Labs’ latest Battletech roleplaying game “A Time of War”. While the core mechanic is a pretty simple and straightforward “roll 2D6...
September 25, 2015
Some thoughts on the Traveller Core Beta
On Friday Mongoose Publishing released the beta playtest documents for their upcoming Traveller Core Rulebook. What sets this playtest apart from others we’ve seen in the past is the fact that you have...
September 7, 2015
We need an alternative to DriveThruRPG
If you are closely following what’s happening in the RPG scene, you have probably heard about the kerfuffle about a product called “Tournament of Rape” which was sold at DriveThruRPG for a few...
September 2, 2015
A Time Of War
An old friend recently offered to run a Battletech RPG campaign for us. As a long-time fan of the board game and the Battletech universe I was actually overjoyed and immediately started to...
September 1, 2015
Don’t Think Too Big!
For a while I have been struggling with a long-time dream of mine: a homebrew cyberpunk setting. I always loved the genre but I am not 100% happy with the cyberpunk games commercially...
August 31, 2015
What’s New?
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather lately but today I pulled myself together to work on this post. Phew! A lot has been happening lately. And there are a couple of...
July 31, 2015
Planet Stargazer
This might be news to some, but recently I started a second blog. This time it’s not about pen & paper roleplaying games but everything else I am interested in. So expect posts...
July 23, 2015
First Look: Apocalypse Prevention Inc. 2nd Edition
Back in 2011 Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games graciously provided me with a review copy of his roleplaying game Apocalypse Prevention Inc. Recently he released a 2nd edition of his game, so...
July 2, 2015
Where No Man Has Gone Before
These six words immediately conjure up one image: the starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701. It’s also the name of an excellent fan-made Star Trek roleplaying game based on Microlite20. Recently my Numenera campaign had...
July 1, 2015
The 2015 ENnie Award Nominees: Some Thoughts
Before I share my thoughts on this year’s nominees, let’s have a look on the categories and which products have been nominated this year: Judges’ Spotlight Winners Dragons in the Stacks: A Teen...
June 30, 2015
Preview: Cypher System Rulebook
Recently a couple of fellow bloggers had the opportunity to look at Monte Cook Games upcoming Cypher System Rulebook. Since I wasn’t among the lucky ones, I got in touch with Shanna Germain...
June 29, 2015