Review: Midgard Bestiary Volume 1
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few years, you surely heard about Green Ronin’s Dragon Age Roleplaying Game. Instead of trying to copy the system used in the...
July 25, 2011
Stargazer
Trust issues
Over the years I have talked with a lot of roleplaying game players about rules-light games. The older I get the more I gravitate towards rules-light systems, because I feel they suit my...
July 20, 2011
Starblazer Adventures Storyteller’s Screen
Following the advice of fellow blogger GeneD5 I ordered the Starblazer Adventures Storyteller’s Screen. I plan to run the first session of that game next Tuesday, so having a Storyteller’s Screen probably wouldn’t...
July 18, 2011
Kobold Quarterly #18 out now!
The latest issue of Kobold Quarterly has been released today and as always it contains a lot of great material for you game. The 100-paged magazine contains articles for all of the major...
July 18, 2011
Review: Dark Harvest – Legacy of Frankenstein
In late May the postman brought me a mysterious package from Cubicle 7 Entertainment. When I opened it, I found a copy of Dark Harvest – Legacy of Frankenstein inside. There was no...
July 15, 2011
Preparing for Starblazer Adventures
My current gaming dry spell is about to end next Tuesday evening. A few RPG pub meeting regulars have asked me to run a game for them and I offered to run a...
July 14, 2011
Behold this month’s DriveThruRPG 20% discount!
As in the months before we can provide you with a coupon code that let’s you purchase a couple of great RPG products at DriveThruRPG with a 20% discount. The coupon is good...
July 13, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: You need to have a thick skin!
In light of recent events I thought it would be a good idea to come back to my RPG blogging advice series. Whenever you post something on the internet you risk that someone...
July 7, 2011
Review: Masks – 1000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game
It was almost a year ago when I had the chance to review Engine Publishing’s debut product: Eureka. Back then I called it “the most useful tool a gamemaster could probably have”. And...
July 5, 2011
The Kobolds launched a new patronage project: Dark Roads and Golden Hells
I just learned about a new patronage project over at Open Design: Dark Roads and Golden Hells. It will led by Northlands’ designer Dan Voyce. So what will the new book be about?...
June 30, 2011
A Wanderer’s Romance now available
SoogaGames and Stargazer Games are proud to announce that Christopher McDowall’s game “A Wanderer’s Romance” is finally available for free from DriveThruRPG. So what’s this game about? The world began as nothing but...
June 30, 2011
Fated to play FATE
During the last weeks I have felt the pull towards Evil Hat’s FATE system getting continuously stronger. I have always thought that FATE was one of the most elegant and ingenious RPG systems...
June 29, 2011
Some minor changes in our comment system
Some time ago I have installed IntenseDebate on this blog. I was actually quite happy with it for a while, but recently it had more and more trouble filtering out spam. In the...
June 29, 2011
What I am working on right now
I recently had a couple of long weekends that allowed me to work on several projects. One of these projects has been Jay Steven Anyong’s BADASS which we released some time ago. Now...
June 27, 2011
Get your Free RPG Day swag today!
As you you may already know last Saturday was Free RPG Day. Alas not all of us had the opportunity to go to a participating FLGS to pick up some nice freebies, socialize...
June 24, 2011
Technoir Dice Mechanics
I have no idea how I could have missed this, but Jeremy Keller actually recorded a short video that gives an overview of how the dice mechanics of Technoir work. If you’re interested...
June 24, 2011
Tag Team Review: Battlelords of the Twenty-Third Century
Battlelords of the 23rd Century is one of the game I always wanted to check out back in the 1990s. The name alone aroused my interest in that game, but alas I was...
June 23, 2011