Review: Abney Park’s Airship Pirates
Over the last few weeks you probably noticed a common theme to a lot of my posts on Stargazer’s World. Since I have heard about Airship Pirates, a roleplaying game based on the...
Over the last few weeks you probably noticed a common theme to a lot of my posts on Stargazer’s World. Since I have heard about Airship Pirates, a roleplaying game based on the...
A couple of days ago I found a mysterious package in mailbox. I opened it and found a copy of Abney park’s Airship Pirates courtesy of Cubicle 7. Some of you may know...
Recently I discovered FU, the free, universal roleplaying game by Nathan Russel. At the core of FU are Descriptors. Descriptors are adjectives or short sentences that descibe one aspect of the character. Each...
I think a lot of GMs love to try new stuff: new games, new rules, new campaigns. But more often than not players are hesitant to try something new. Some groups never want...
On Saturday I finally ran my first Starblazer Adventures session. As I’ve detailed in a couple of posts here on the blog we used the Mass Effect universe as a background and the...
A couple of days ago Ken Walton, one of the creators of the upcoming “Abney Park’s Airship Pirates”, posted a link to this short movie on rpg.net. It’s a movie about a captain...
There’s now new Airship Pirates material available at the Cakebread & Walton website: deck plans of the Pirate Ship Cordelia, as well as maps of the North American Wastes and the Sierra Nevada...
I am terrible when it comes to coming up names for my characters. So whenever possible I make use of random name generators. As I mentioned several times before I am currently waiting...
It’s hardly a secret that I have a soft spot for the FATE system. I think over the last months I have acquired and read almost every FATE game I could get my...
I love random generators of all kinds. Especially when it comes to coming up with names for NPCs or creating all the small details needed to flesh out one of the less important...
When Chaosium announced the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu I wasn’t actually that thrilled. Sure it looked nice enough, but I already owned the German Edition of the book. But over...
I am truly amazed how much third-party support Green Ronin’s AGE system has been getting lately. There are of course numerous fan supplements, adventures and conversions on the ‘net, but a good portion...
Recently I was looking for another customizable GM screen. While I was quite happy with the “Savage Worlds Customizable GM Screen” for a while, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to look if there...
On the weekend I started playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which is actually a prequel to the original Deus Ex that was released over a decade ago. I like the game a lot...
In December 2008 I first read about Charles Stross’ short story “A Colder War”. Imagine an alternative timeline where the cold war ends in 1984 because the Soviets mistake a joke made by...
My recently-discovered love for the music of Abney Park and their upcoming roleplaying game Airship Pirates has made me quite excited for all things steampunk again. And even though steampunk is probably not...
Today when I came home from work I found my copy of Ashen Stars in my mailbox! Finally! I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I think I preordered...