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
Stargazer
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
Musings of a D&D 5th Edition DM
Last year I started playing D&D 5th Edition with one of my regular groups. Actually we just created characters and did a short introductory adventure set into a campaign setting of my own...
February 16, 2015
Kickstarter: Packs!
Today I want to point out to you the Packs! Kickstarter campaign. Packs! is the English-language version of the German indie RPG Ratten! (engl.: rats) in which you play … rats. Personally I...
February 13, 2015
Why there will be no 2nd Edition of WR&M
Over the last years I have thought several times about creating a 2nd Edition of Warrior, Rogue & Mage. No game is perfect and WR&M is no exception. The combat rules need fixing,...
February 11, 2015
The “Dane of War” Mystery
This article is probably not 100% RPG-related but it’s about someone from our community. A couple of years back a blogger called Brian Pedersen aka Dane of War was quite active in the...
February 10, 2015
Review: Mutant Year Zero
Mutant Year Zero is one of the games that took me completely by surprise. I faintly remember that I read that Modiphius was running a Kickstarter project for the game, but I for...
February 9, 2015
What am I Reading at the Moment?
I am a collector of roleplaying games. While most people only buy what they intend to use I buy roleplaying games for a lot of reasons and often even when I know I...
February 2, 2015
Proto-Traveller
On the Citizens of the Imperium forums I stumbled upon a thread about a very cool idea how to run Traveller. It’s called Proto-Traveller and refers to a campaign mostly based on the...
January 30, 2015
Kickstarter and Support for Multiple Systems
I’ve seen a disturbing trend in RPG-related Kickstarters for a while. A lot of stretch goals include support for multiple systems. There are quite a few games with support for various D&D editions,...
January 23, 2015
My Gift to the WR&M Community
Recently a couple of people from the Stargazer’s World Google+ Community have started compiling new and old material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage and its derivatives. In order to help the community to...
January 21, 2015
Hero Quest anyone?
In my Happy New Year post I’ve mentioned Hero Quest 2nd Edition by Robin Laws. It’s one of the games I’ve bought ages ago, but which I never read thoroughly nor played it....
January 5, 2015
Happy New Year!
I wish all my friends and followers a happy new year 2015! From a personal standpoint 2014 was a pretty bad year for me. My depressions have been worse than ever. But luckily...
January 4, 2015
#3x3RPGs
This is obviously a huge thing right now, so I thought I’ll join the fun. Three most recently played RPGs: Numenera D&D 5th Edition Savage Worlds Three favorite (current) RPGs: Numenera Traveller Barbarians...
December 11, 2014
WR&M Pocket Edition–A few Thoughts
During this year’s NaGaDeMon I worked on two projects: rewriting Galaxy Core (I worked on it during another NaGaDeMon) into a d20-based system and on a simplified and dice-less (!) version of Warrior,...
December 9, 2014
What are RPGs? And is our hobby really dying?
I know, that’s a controversial topic and a lot of subjectivity is involved in the discussion. If you ask ten pen & paper roleplaying games fans you’ll probably get at least a dozen...
December 5, 2014