Leaving Twitter
Today I have made the decision to leave Twitter. I haven’t been properly using it for quite a long time, and I don’t want…
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Planning ahead
For quite a long time I started new campaign on a whim with an extremely short prep period. This works out well enough if…
My short struggle with Shadowrun 5th Edition
A while ago my players asked me if I could run Shadowrun for them. They love the Shadowrun world and the gameplay should be…
Hero System Bundle
Yesterday I picked up the latest Bundle of Holding containing 6 Hero System products, namely Champions Complete, The Hero System Equipment Guide, the Hero…
Fate and Fudge
A question which comes up regularly is how Fate compares to Fudge. If you’ve been following both games for a while now, you may…
How I stopped worrying and just used Fudge
My relationship to Fudge was a pretty strange one. While I always loved certain aspects of it (the dice mechanics are pure genius), I…
Fallout and Anxiety
Last Friday I ran the first session of the Fallout Fudged game I wrote about. Character creation was pretty fast even though I had…
Fallout Fudged
A while ago I had the idea to run a campaign based on the Fallout computer game series. I was actually just replaying the…
Preview: Covert Ops by DwD Studios
It’s no secret that I love rules-light roleplaying games. I also have a soft spot for d% mechanics, so it’s no surprise I fell…
UFOs over Blue Creek
On Saturday I ran the first part of my XCOM-inspired Fudge game set in the early 1960s. The party consisted of a NASA scientist,…
Ask the Readers: What do you like about this blog?
Stargazer’s World is now over five years old and our team has written way over thousand blog posts to date. In the last few…
Fudging Battletech
While I am preparing the XCOM game I have been writing about, I am already thinking about other one-shots/mini-campaigns I could run in the…
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
I am currently working on a UFO conspiracy RPG one-shot inspired by TV series like X-Files and Dark Skies and computer games like the…
My thoughts on Feng Shui
Last Friday I had the chance to play in a game of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a roleplaying game from the mid-1990s inspired…
Fedoras, waistcoats, and Grey aliens
As I mentioned before I haven’t run any roleplaying games in a while. Several plans haven’t come to fruition and over the last weeks…
IRC anyone?
Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for text-based messaging harking back to the early days of the internet. Nowadays it’s mostly forgotten. But interestingly…
My evil brain
My evil brain is messing with me again. For a while several campaign ideas have been on my mind, but for some reason I’m…
Ask The Readers: What is your ”Go To” roleplaying game?
A lot of gamers have that one favorite roleplaying game they always return to, or that they use for every application they can come…
More Mecha!
For some reason I’m in the mood for some more Mecha in my gaming life. Back in the early ‘90s we played Battletech almost…
A different approach to campaign design
A while ago two of my friends and I sat together to talk about our upcoming Fate Accelerated game. We all had different ideas…