Mindjammer Competition: The Lucky Winners
Yesterday the competition, in which two of our readers could win a signed copy of the novel Mindjammer by Sarah Newton each, ended. The questions you had to ask to be eligible for...
August 25, 2012
Stargazer
What’s New With Mindjammer – An Interview with Sarah Newton
In October 2011 I did my first interview with Sarah Newton, who then worked with Cubicle 7 as head of the editorial team and line developer. Since then her novel Mindjammer has been released...
August 22, 2012
tremulus trailer
Hooray! Reality Blurs’ Sean Preston posted today that the launch of the tremulus Kickstarter is only a few days away. The stars are right on August 27th! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! tremulus–a storytelling...
August 21, 2012
My thoughts on the “Star Wars Edge of The Empire Beta”
This morning I stumbled upon the news that FFG has started selling the beta version of their upcoming Star Wars roleplaying game at Gen Con. Selling the beta version? Yes, that’s right. You...
August 20, 2012
Gloom
I am currently taking a break from DMing and that’s one of the reasons why my gaming group decided to try out several board and card games. One of the games I recently...
August 15, 2012
Mindjammer finds a new home
Some of you might have wondered why all Mindjammer products vanished from sites like DriveThruRPG recently and why Sarah Newton’s novel had been rereleased on the Amazon Kindle store. The short answer is...
August 13, 2012
Freebies: Five By Five
Today I stumbled upon Jeff Moore’s blog Dreams and Dragons and (re)discovered his awesome rules-light RPG Five By Five. I think I have downloaded and leafed through it a while ago, but I...
August 7, 2012
Prices are melting at DriveThruRPG!
It’s so damn hot that even the prices are melting at DriveThruRPG. The following products are 20% off until September 10th: Tailslap Issue 1 [Unicorn Rampant] Claw/Claw/Bite Issue 18 [Unicorn Rampant] Second World...
August 6, 2012
Ask The Readers: What is your favorite Cyberpunk RPG and why?
Yesterday night I resumed playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution after a long hiatus. As it is often the case with me and computer games I began thinking about how I could recreate the...
August 6, 2012
Ten Games I Would Take To A Desert Island
In the German roleplaying blog scene people have been posting about the ten RPGs they would take to a desert island. In my opinion that’s a fun thing to do and it provides...
August 1, 2012
Gratisrollenspieltag
All of you probably know the Free RPG Day. Even though the official Free RPG Day website claims that “consumers worldwide will be able to grab brand new material for a variety of...
July 25, 2012
Summer Sale at the Kobold Store
It’s seems these are dire times for my wallet, because everyone is having those sweet sales right now and I am very tempted to buy more roleplaying game stuff! Yesterday I already mentioned...
July 24, 2012
It’s Christmas in July again!
DriveThruRPG is celebrating Christmas in July again, which means a lot of cool products will be 25% off. The sale starts later today (In about 6 hours!) and ends on the 30th. For...
July 23, 2012
Tremulus Playtest Report
I’ve been following the development of Reality Blurs’ tremulus for quite a while now and the more I heard about it, the more excited I got. So, what is tremulus about? It’s a...
July 20, 2012
Everything you always wanted to know about “Into The Odd” but were afraid to ask
Into the Odd is definitely one of the coolest games I’ve played in a while and it’s the one game I exclusively played over Google+ Hangout. It has been designed by Chris McDowall...
July 19, 2012
Some thoughts on the ENnies nominations
Recently this year’s nominations to the ENnie Awards have been announced. I have to admit that even though I don’t usually agree with the ENnies judges’ decision I can’t argue that the annual...
July 18, 2012
Review: Dark Harvest Resistance
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a review of Dark Harvest – Legacy of Frankenstein, one of the most impressive and unique games I’ve seen in 2011. It’s a horror roleplaying game...
July 17, 2012