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
Stargazer
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
D&D 5th Edition: A Few Thoughts
After having played and run D&D 5th Edition for a couple of months I think it’s time to have a look on what worked and what didn’t work quite as well. Overall D&D...
June 26, 2015
I suck at running campaigns
Recently I looked back at my gaming career and I realized that my campaigns usually end up being a mess. More often then not, there’s no real ending to the campaign and the...
June 25, 2015
Dragon Age / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Numenera / Other Systems / Random musings / Rifts / RPG / Savage Worlds
Three Upcoming Games I’m Excited about
Although I already own quite a few roleplaying games (I stopped counting a while ago), I am usually excited about at least one or two upcoming games. At the moment there are three...
June 15, 2015
Game Maker Studio
Again I am breaking one of the rules that I wrote down when I started this blog. Today I want to write about a topic unrelated to pen & paper RPGs. While pen...
May 8, 2015
First Look: Strange Stars
Strange Stars by Armchair Planet is a game setting book of a kind you don’t see that often nowadays – it’s system-less. The 32-paged PDF contains a complete space opera universe for you...
May 4, 2015
An Elegant System For A More Civilized Age
Most of you probably remember the line “An elegant weapon for a more civilized age” from 1977’s Star Wars. So it’s probably no surprise that this post is about the rules of the original Star...
April 30, 2015
Freebies: Heavy Gear d6
One of my favorite roleplaying games has always been the Star Wars RPG by West End Games. One of the reason why I enjoyed the game so much were the easy rules which...
April 29, 2015
RPG Blogging 101
Back in 2011 I wrote a series of posts about how to set up and run your own RPG blog. I guess most of my advice is still valid or at least a...
April 28, 2015
The RPGBA is Dead! Long Live The RPGBA!
A couple of years ago, Jeff Brissette and me (actually mostly Jeff), started the RPG Blog Alliance as an alternative to the RPG Bloggers Network. The latter used a pretty outdated and ill-fitting...
April 28, 2015
Hell Froze Over: There will be a non-palladium-System RIFTS Game
Two days ago, Palladium Books revealed in its Weekly Update that there will be a new roleplaying game set in Rifts Earth (including a line of adventures) created by another company. For everyone...
April 21, 2015