NaGa DeMon: A question of character
Due to some unforeseen family crisis progress on my NaGa DeMon project is much slower than I anticipated. Luckily it hasn’t come to a total standstill yet. Today I actually managed to finish...
November 19, 2012
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Kickstarter: Camp Myth: The RPG
Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games recently me told me about the Kickstarter project he’s running right now. Together with Chris Lewis Carter who created the Camp Myth series, he’s trying to raise...
November 13, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The Slipstream Drive
A couple of days ago I wrote down a few notes on how FTL travel and communication is supposed to work in my Galaxy Rising game. I haven’t decided yet, how fast you...
November 8, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The League
Today I want to share my notes about the League with you. The League The League of Free Worlds was formed shortly after discovery of the Slipstream drive and the first contact with...
November 7, 2012
NaGa DeMon: What’s In a Name?
One important part of any game design is coming up with fitting terms, names, et cetera. Alas I have to admit I am really bad at this aspect of game design. I have...
November 6, 2012
Review: ACHTUNG! Cthulhu – Three Kings
The possibility of links between the Nazis and the occult have been a topic of speculation for a very long time and eventually became a trope in fiction. Just think of computer games...
November 5, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The first step is always the hardest
Sometimes it’s really hard to come up with a good idea if you need one. For the last few days I’ve tried really hard to think about a cool setting for the game...
November 2, 2012
First Look: Barebones Fantasy Role-playing Game
I think I first read about Barebones Fantasy by DwD Studios a couple of weeks ago when I stumbled upon a post showcasing its cover on Google+. I have to admit that the...
October 30, 2012
Review: All We Have Forgotten
A lot of people – including me – are using video game or movie soundtracks as background music for our roleplaying sessions. Alas these soundtracks are often not a perfect fit. Some tracks...
October 23, 2012
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). In that time you can get many of your...
October 22, 2012
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 write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November....
October 22, 2012
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 an industrial revolution. It uses a simple dice pool...
October 22, 2012
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 has been responsible for the awesome Eternal Lies Suite...
October 18, 2012
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 action-point based systems found in games like Space Hulk...
October 15, 2012
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 into the 22nd century. Humanity is slowly recovering from...
October 15, 2012
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 at university. Rolemaster is one of those quite crunchy...
October 11, 2012