Preparing for the Mass Effect game (Part 1)
Usually I don’t do much in the way of preparation and rely on my improvisation skills. But with the upcoming Mass Effect game I want to stray from my usual path. The Mass...
February 13, 2013
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Kickstarter: Achtung! Cthulhu
We are breaking our regular schedule for some Kickstarter news. Two days ago Chris Birch started the “Achtung! Cthulhu – The WW2 Keeper’s & Investigator’s Guides” Kickstarter project. In 50 days he tries...
February 13, 2013
A Mass Effect Diaspora
After a long hiatus I’ll finally be running a new roleplaying game campaign again. On the weekend I met with my group and made the proposal to play Diaspora, VSCA Publishing’s Hard-SF Fate-based...
February 11, 2013
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Ask The Stargazer: What is the best Fantasy RPG?
Some of you may remember the column “Ask The Stargazer” that I introduced back in 2011. I posted a couple of replies to your questions since then, but for various reasons the column...
February 6, 2013
Gaming on the cheap – 2013 Edition (Part 2/2)
Last time I wrote about some highly recommended free games, this time I want to focus on inexpensive commercial games. All of the games listed below are available as PDF document for $10...
January 30, 2013
Gaming on the cheap – 2013 Edition (Part 1/2)
”Roleplaying games can be an expensive hobby, especially when you are the game master.” With these words I started a post in 2009 called “Gaming on the cheap” and it’s still true. But...
January 23, 2013
The Top 5 posts of 2012
2012 has been a great year for the blog. According to the stats plugin I use the blog has been viewed about 260,000 times last year. This is quite amazing in my opinion....
January 16, 2013
Greetings, Salutations, and Resolutions!
We’re back! After taking a well-deserved break Stargazer’s World is back in business. I want to start the new year by wishing you all a happy new year 2013. I also want to...
January 14, 2013
Taking a break!
The end of the world year is almost upon us and I decided to take a break from blogging during my holiday. My creative batteries are almost empty and I want to use...
December 17, 2012
Ask The Readers: What are your Holiday gaming plans?
Over the last couple of years I have regularly meet with my gaming group on New Year’s Eve to play a one-shot game – usually something from the horror genre like Call of...
December 10, 2012
Pen & Paper RPG Bloggers Community at Google+ and RPG blogging tips
Yesterday Google started to roll out a new feature for Google+ called Communities. Communities are basically what groups are in other social networks like Facebook or Ning. I thought it could be nice...
December 7, 2012
Roleplaying music: An interview with James Semple
When it comes to soundtracks for pen & paper roleplaying games my favorite composer is definitely James Semple. He and his team have created several awesome soundtracks for Pelgrane Press’ series of GUMSHOE...
December 4, 2012
Kickstarter: Fate Core System
Even though I haven’t played it that often I am a big fan of the Fate system. It took me quite a while to wrap my head around the Fate rules but when...
December 4, 2012
NaGa DeMon: Another update
The progress on Galaxy Rising has been slowed down a bit in the last few days. The fact that I suffer from bad lower back pain for since Monday didn’t really help with...
November 28, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The final days
The National Game Design Month ends in a couple of days and I fear I will not be able to fulfill one of the requirements set by Nathan Russell when he conceived the...
November 26, 2012
NaGa DeMon: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
In the last post I revealed a few details about the rules system (which I dubbed Galaxy Core). One aspect I was not really happy with were Hooks. Yesterday I remembered that I...
November 22, 2012
NaGa Demon: A look at the layout
Yesterday I spent several hours to work on the layout of my NaGa DeMon project Galaxy Rising. It’s already November 21 and when I want to get the game to a playable state,...
November 21, 2012