Chronicle City to publish English edition of Dungeonslayers
For some of you this might already be old news, but I thought it would still make sense to share the news here. Chronicle City, the new British games publisher set up by...
March 13, 2012
Stargazer
Player’s Companion for “Adventurer Conqueror King”
There’s another Kickstarter project that grabbed my attention. Autarch is currently raising money to fund an expansion to the very intriguing Adventurer Conqueror King System. I picked up the core book a while...
March 12, 2012
Illustrating Legend
Some time ago we reported about Rule of Cool Gaming’s Legend RPG. In the meantime over 20,000 copies have been downloaded, which is quite an achievement. And since all the proceeds from the...
March 12, 2012
When Irish Dice Are Rollin’: March discounts at DriveThruRPG
Haha! Who comes up with these funny coupon codes? Like in the months before we can share a 20% discount code with you that’s good for the following products: SAWS+ Character Sheet SAWS+...
March 9, 2012
Review: DMDJ
I often use music in my roleplaying games to help set the tone. As one of my players said recently: “The worst in these horror games of yours is not what happens in...
March 9, 2012
Ask The Readers: Share your favorite roleplaying quotes with us!
Back in the day, when we still played in the basement of a friend’s house we kept a list of memorable quotes. One of my favorites is the following dialogue during a Vampire...
March 8, 2012
Do we need those “What is a roleplaying game” sections?
I don’t remember ever seeing a boardgame, videogame, book, movie DVD or any other entertainment product to first explain me what it is. But in the case of roleplaying games there almost always...
March 7, 2012
Why D&D Next is important to all of us
I don’t play any recent edition of D&D right now and I am pretty skeptical about the upcoming next edition. You could come to believe I couldn’t care less about what Wizards of...
March 6, 2012
Ask The Readers: Do RPGs necessarily need a unified core mechanic?
Back in the early days of roleplaying games there were often different roll mechanics for the various aspects of the game. In some games you had to roll with a d20 and get...
March 2, 2012
GM’s Day Sale at DriveThruRPG
From now until March 7th, you can get 25% off thousands of titles at DriveThruRPG. If you wanted to spend a couple of dollars on RPG stuff, this might be the right time...
March 1, 2012
Review: The One Ring – Adventures over the Edge of the Wild
J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings” is undoubtedly one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. It was one of the major inspirations for a lot of the...
March 1, 2012
We submitted our blog to the 2012 SOTY award and so should you!
Stuffer Shack is running it’s annually RPG Site of the Year Award contest again. Until end of march you can submit your blog (as long as it is a independent, non-corporate, fan-based, table-top...
March 1, 2012
Why Fudge needs a new edition
I’m assuming you guys already know what Fudge is. If not I recommend you check out the official Fudge site or my previous Fudge posts. After that, please come back. You’re back? Great....
February 29, 2012
Freebies: The Microlite20 RPG Collection 2012
Microlite20 is a rules-light version of the d20 System, that is quite popular among the authors of this blog. Recently someone pointed out the Microlite20 RPG Collection 2012 to me. It’s a compilation...
February 29, 2012
Review: Ruined Empires
Ruined Empires is an 43-paged adventure for Abney Park’s Airship Pirates (read my review here) written by the games’ authors Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton. And as in the rulebook Abney Park’s Robert...
February 27, 2012
Lazy Friday Video Post: “Age of Oppression” Skyrim cover
I think I mentioned before that the soundtrack to the highly successful computer and video game “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim” works perfectly as background music for your roleplaying game session. I haven’t? Then...
February 24, 2012
Vaeringar Borderlands
Yesterday I continued to work on my SS&S campaign. I got some tips from Ralf Schemmann (thanks again Ralf!) on how to properly create a map in CC3 and following his advice I...
February 24, 2012