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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
For the longest time fans of the Warrior, Rogue & Mage RPG have been wondering how the lands of Vaneria look like. This question is now answered! Matt Jackson, blogger and cartographer extraordinaire,...
I think I have talked about Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd on Stargazer’s World already. It’s a very cool fantasy game with horror and sci-fi elements that is reminiscent of OD&D. But instead...
Yesterday the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game by Margaret Weis Production has been released in PDF form. I’ve been looking forward to this game for a while, mostly because I heard good things about...
Recently someone asked me to list all the games I’ve played or run over the years. It actually took me a while to remember all (or at least most of them) and today...
On February 13th I asked you to post your favorite gamer food recipes. Today I checked all the contest entries and picked the recipe I liked best. And the winner is Parker Emerson’s...
This morning I stumbled upon “Adventurer Conqueror King” on RPGNow. It’s a roleplaying game based on OD&D and using the OGL that has a focus on what I would call the “endgame”. The...
Campaign Cartographer 3 is definitely one of the RPG tools I wish I had more time to work with. When you design your own campaign setting or even if you’re just running a...
It’s Valentine’s Day, people, the perfect opportunity to get your significant other geek a gift from DriveThruRPG. Under the motto “Geek Love Rules” they have complied a list of romance-related RPG products that...