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 in love with DwD Studios’ Barebones Fantasy. Just 84...
October 30, 2013
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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, a military sharpshooter and a FBI agent that have...
October 28, 2013
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 years we’ve covered several different game systems, posted dozens...
October 23, 2013
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 future. One of the games I wanted to run...
October 22, 2013
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 XCOM series (including The Bureau). One of the premises...
October 22, 2013
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 by Hong Kong action movies. If you enjoy watching...
October 21, 2013
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 I got more and more frustrated. One advice I...
October 16, 2013
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 enough the RPG scene is quite active on IRC....
October 15, 2013
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 unable to turn these loose threads into something coherent....
September 25, 2013
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 up with. For some people it’s a generic system...
September 23, 2013
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 weekly and I have some fond memories of a...
September 5, 2013
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 about what we’d like to play. Several ideas were...
August 21, 2013
Space 1889: Interview with Stefan Küppers
As a follow-up to my (p)review of Space 1889 I managed to get in touch with the people responsible for the popular roleplaying game and do an interview with one of the creators,...
August 15, 2013
Too many games, too little time…
We’re living in exciting times – especially when roleplaying games are concerned. At any given moment there are several exciting Kickstarter projects running, every other week new roleplaying games are announced. Especially in...
August 13, 2013
DUST Adventures
Modiphius Entertainment seems to have great plans for the future. The Achtung! Cthulhu Kickstarter was a huge success and they are currently also working on a new edition of the Mutant Chronicles RPG....
August 12, 2013
Space 1889 Soundtrack
In the latest update Angus Abranson mentioned that all backers at the Digital Rulebook Plus or Rulebook Plus levels get a Space 1889: Soundtrack for free (MP3 files) or for £11 if they...
August 12, 2013
Preview: Space 1889
As you might already know, Chronicle City’s Angus Abranson is currently running a fundraiser on Kickstarter for the English version of the new Space 1889 game which was released in 2012 in Germany....
August 7, 2013