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
Stargazer
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
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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 The latter used a pretty outdated and ill-fitting...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
Some Thoughts on the Dragon Age RPG
On Saturday I had the chance to play the Dragon Age RPG by Green Ronin at a local convention. Initially I planned to run two sessions of Into The Odd, but we didn’t...
April 20, 2015
Reports of my unfortunate Demise have been greatly exaggerated!
Yes, I am still alive. I haven’t posted in a while because I was busy with other stuff and not feeling particularly inspired to write something. But I noticed that a lot of...
April 14, 2015
Gen Con’s Letter to the Indiana Governor
Just two days ago Gen Con’s owner and CEO Adrian Swartout sent a letter to Indiana’s governor Mike Pence and basically threatened that Gen Con will leave Indianapolis in the future if SB...
March 25, 2015
Deus Ex Machina
Next month I’ll be running two games at a local con. Initially I planned to run D&D 5th Edition and perhaps even Traveller, but recently I reconsidered. For a con game which also...
March 4, 2015
Interview: Chris Birch
Recently I had the chance to do a short interview with Chris Birch from Modiphius. Modiphius is a pretty young company but is already well-known in the RPG community. The Kickstarter for Achtung!...
March 2, 2015
Some Thoughts on Technoir
Technoir, Jeremy Keller’s cyberpunk roleplaying game, was one of the first Kickstarter projects I supported back in 2011. The video he created to promote his game blew me away, and I was excited...
February 24, 2015
First Impressions: Beyond The Wall
Yesterday evening I had the chance to create my first character for Beyond The Wall by Flatland Games. I have a digital copy of this fine game on my harddrive but alas I...
February 19, 2015