Stargazer

Author at Stargazer's World • 1585 Articles

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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News & Reviews

October 22, 2012 • 1 min read

Trick or Treat at DriveThruRPG!

Starting today, DriveThruRPG and it’s sister sites DriveThruComics, DriveThruFiction and WarGameVault will run the Trick-or-Treat promotion. The promotion will end on Halloween (October 31st).…

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NaGa DeMon

October 22, 2012 • 2 min read

Beware! The NaGaDeMon is right around the corner!

A couple of my friends are currently preparing for the NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. The idea is that you challenge yourself to…

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Ask The Readers

October 22, 2012 • 1 min read

Ask The Readers: Have you played Arcane Heroes?

In November 2010 I released a 5-paged rules-light RPG called Arcane Heroes. In Arcane Heroes the player characters are members of ancient bloodlines during…

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Ashen Stars soundtrack: “All We Have Forgotten”

Advice

October 18, 2012 • 1 min read

Ashen Stars soundtrack: “All We Have Forgotten”

A couple of days ago Pelgrane Press released music for Ashen Stars created by James Semple, Marie-Ann Fischer and Yaiza Varona. The same team…

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Advice

October 18, 2012 • 2 min read

Free Music for use in your games

Especially in certain genres, music can be an important part of the gaming experience. In horror games the immersion can be extremely deep if…

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Freebies

October 15, 2012 • 1 min read

WR&M Tactics – beta testers required!

Christopher Brind has written a very interesting supplement for Warrior, Rogue & Mage that adds some extra depth to combats. “Tactics” is inspired by…

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Other Systems

October 15, 2012 • 3 min read

Do you remember Trinity?

Back in the late 1990s my favorite roleplaying game was definitely White Wolf’s Trinity. Trinity (which was initially called Aeon) was a game set…

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Freebies

October 11, 2012 • 2 min read

Unified Rolemaster Playtest

I have to admit I still have fond memories of the long Rolemaster campaign a friend of mine has run back when I was…

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Ask The Readers: Gaming-related Android apps?

Advice

October 11, 2012 • 1 min read

Ask The Readers: Gaming-related Android apps?

Since I own an iPhone (and later an iPad) I’ve looked for ways to use these devices at the gaming table. Over the last…

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Not excited about D&D Next? Then check out these cool alternatives…

Advice

October 10, 2012 • 6 min read

Not excited about D&D Next? Then check out these cool alternatives…

This morning I had a conversation on Twitter about the fact that bloggers don’t really seem to be excited about D&D Next anymore and…

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Kickstarter

October 2, 2012 • 1 min read

Kickstarter: Nova Praxis

You probably remember Nova Praxis, the transhuman sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game I previewed a couple of days ago. A Kickstarter project has now been…

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Interview

September 27, 2012 • 7 min read

Interview: Let’s Talk about Iron Kingdoms with Jason Soles

Back in 2001 a small company called Privateer Press released “The Witchfire Trilogy Book 1: The Longest Night” for D&D 3rd Edition. Today Privateer…

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Kickstarter

September 24, 2012 • 1 min read

Kickstarter: “Dungeonlands: Tomb of the Lich Queen”

Savage Mojo’s Tommy Brownell contacted me a while ago and informed me about a Kickstarter they are running. They are raising money over Kickstarter…

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Ask Th’ Readers: What’s Yer favorite Pirate RPG?

Ask The Readers

September 19, 2012 • 2 min read

Ask Th’ Readers: What’s Yer favorite Pirate RPG?

Hello, me heartys. As ye all may well know ’tis Talk Like A Pirate Day. That’s why I decided ‘t would be fun t’…

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Lazy Monday Video Post: Dungeon Bastard – Bill Cavalier vs. Monte Cook

GenCon

September 17, 2012 • 1 min read

Lazy Monday Video Post: Dungeon Bastard – Bill Cavalier vs. Monte Cook

I actually tried to come up with a witty and interesting post this morning, but alas my creative juices are not flowing as they…

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FATE

September 14, 2012 • 4 min read

Preview: Nova Praxis

A while ago, Void Star’s Mike McConnell contacted me and asked me if I was interested in having a look at his upcoming sci-fi…

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News & Reviews

September 11, 2012 • 12 min read

Review: Iron Kingdoms Core Rules

Back in 2008 I lamented the lack of Privateer Press’ support for the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying game and hoped that “Privateer Press will surprise…

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Kickstarter

September 10, 2012 • 1 min read

Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary

A couple of days ago I was made aware of the D&D: A Documentary Kickstarter. What is the project all about? In a nutshell…

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News & Reviews

September 6, 2012 • 5 min read

A look at BASH! Sci-Fi Edition

In my search for a roleplaying game system that I can use for that Perry Rhodan game that I have planned for ages now…

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Kickstarter

September 5, 2012 • 1 min read

tremulus Sneak Peek

Earlier today Sean Preston of Reality Blurs released a sneak peek of tremulus with his latest Kickstarter update in the form of the The…

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