NaGa DeMon: I surrender!
As I’ve written last week, I doubt I will get my NaGa DeMon project done. Today is November 28th and Astronauts is far from being playable. But since it’s a very interesting project...
November 28, 2011
Stargazer
What was, what is and what will be
After a few days being sick, I finally went back to work today. I think this is a perfect opportunity to give you an update on what’s going on at Stargazer’s World at...
November 23, 2011
Ask The Stargazer: “How should one go about starting an rpg blog?”
Yesterday I got the following email: Dear Michael/Stargazer, My question for you sir, is this? How should one go about starting an RPG blog? I have some ideas for content but my technology-fu...
November 17, 2011
Freebies: Atomic Highway
Atomic Highway, an excellent post-apocalyptic roleplaying game written by Colin Chapman is now available for free! Here’s what Colin has written in the announcement on the official Radioactive Ape Designs site: RIDE FOR...
November 17, 2011
Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago
The deed is done! Warrior, Rogue & Mage has been translated into Spanish! You can check out the game’s announcement on the Arcano XIII blog and download the complete game here. As I...
November 16, 2011
Ask The Readers: Tell me about Gamma World!
Let me start by saying that I didn’t particularly enjoy playing D&D 4th Edition. Over the course of about half a dozen game sessions and after reading to various rulebooks I realized that...
November 16, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #2
My project is progressing much slower than I anticipated. But I actually made some progress and slowly, very slowly the crunch part of the game is coming together. Astronauts will use a simple...
November 14, 2011
TRPBTNTWA or “Things Role Playing Bloggers Tend Not To Write About”
Fellow RPG blogger Noisms came up with a list of subjects RPG bloggers usually don’t write about. Alas I was oblivious to the existence of said blog until I read an article posted...
November 11, 2011
Using the Kindle at the game table
Yesterday I finally got my Kindle. For quite a while I have been pondering whether I should buy one or not. Last August I bought an iPad and actually thought it might double...
November 9, 2011
Update: WR&M in Spanish
Yesterday I got the final PDF of the Spanish translation of WR&M. I have to admit I can’t judge the quality of the translation since I don’t speak Spanish, but I am very...
November 8, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #1
On Friday I announced my project for this year’s NaGa DeMon. It will be a near future hard science fiction roleplaying game called Astronauts. And after making that announcement I realized two things:...
November 7, 2011
Astronauts
I finally had an idea for what I want to work on for NaGa DeMon! Astronauts will be a hard sf roleplaying game set into a near future which focuses on human space...
November 4, 2011
Putting fantastic back into Fantasy
Yesterday I played in another session of Chris McDowall’s “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. As always we had a blast and it also inspired me to write about putting back the fantastic...
November 4, 2011
Update on the status of “Ask the Stargazer!”
I just wanted to give you a small update on the new “Ask the Stargazer!” feature I have talked about recently. I’ve got six questions so far and some of these are pretty...
November 2, 2011
My Plans for NaGa DeMon
Last week I’ve posted about this year’s National Game Design Month (don’t let you distract by National, everyone may join the fray). I definitely want to contribute something this year, but when it...
November 1, 2011
Dark Dungeons – The Animated Film
As a roleplayer you surely know the Jack Chick tract “Dark Dungeons” and if you don’t you definitely need to check it out. It still baffles me that there are people out there...
November 1, 2011
Ask The Stargazer!
For a while now I have been thinking about starting a new hopefully regular feature on Stargazer’s World called “Ask The Stargazer!”. So what’s the idea behind this new feature? You can send...
October 31, 2011