The Dungeon Master
A couple of weeks ago, fellow blogger Youseph let me know about a new gaming-related short film called “The Dungeon Master”. Here’s the synopsis cited from the original site: After they discover they...
April 29, 2011
Stargazer
Building better characters
One of the most important steps when starting a new game is creating characters. If you are interested in the full roleplaying experience, creating your character is much more complex than just “picking...
April 28, 2011
Dragon Warriors is back
Some time ago I reviewed the Dragon Warriors RPG here on Stargazer’s World. Alas Magnum Opus Press lost the license to produce the game a while ago and all Dragon Warriors products went...
April 28, 2011
Part-Time Gods
I just got word from Third Eye Games’ Eloy Lasanta that they have an interesting project up on Kickstarter called Part-Time Gods. Part-Time Gods will be their third game line and will be...
April 27, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Attracting Readers
So you’ve started your RPG blog but for some reason nobody is actually reading your stuff. Especially if you want people to read your posts and give some feedback this can be a...
April 27, 2011
My experiences with Fudge
Last Friday I ran my first game of Fudge. An old friend visited me and asked me to run a roleplaying game since he hasn’t played in ages. At first he showed some...
April 26, 2011
Lazy Thursday video post
As you all well know the people running this blog just love H.P. Lovecraft’s work. So it’s no surprise that I am very excited about “The Whisperer in Darkness”, a movie that should...
April 21, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Writing posts
Writing posts is actually the hardest part of running any blog. Everything else up to this point was mostly theoretical or technical stuff, but now we come to what really makes a blog....
April 20, 2011
My quest to run a Fudge game
I’ve been flirting with the Fudge RPG for quite a while now. It was in April 2009 when I wrote about my plans to run an urban fantasy/horror game for my girlfriend using...
April 19, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Let’s start at the beginning
So you want to start blogging about tabletop RPGs? Alas that’s easier said than done. Especially in the beginning you have to make a lot of decisions that will shape the future of...
April 18, 2011
Help playtest the High Score RPG
High Score is a roleplaying game currently in development by fellow RPG blogger Dennis Santana which has an interesting premise. Each event in the game has a certain high score the players have...
April 15, 2011
Review: Eternal Lies Suite
I love using music in roleplaying games since my first GM used the “Nightmare on Elm Street” soundtrack in a CHILL game he was running. Before that we had no background music but...
April 15, 2011
First look: Interface Zero (Savage Worlds Edition)
Savage Worlds is among my favorite roleplaying game systems and I was quite happy when I heard that Gun Metal Games was going to release their excellent Interface Zero setting for it. Interface...
April 14, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Primer
For some time I have been pondering whether I should write a series of blog posts about my second favorite hobby: blogging about RPGs. I asked around on Twitter and the #stargazersworld IRC...
April 13, 2011
Day of Fudge
As you probably know I have a soft spot for the Fudge system. Alas I never had the opportunity to actually run a game with it, but from time to time I leaf...
April 13, 2011
Review: Dragon Warriors
Dragon Warriors is a classic British fantasy roleplaying game that has originally been released in the mid-eighties by Corgi Books. In 2008 Magnum Opus Press released Dragon Warriors in a new edition which...
April 12, 2011
Get 20% off of selected titles at DriveThruRPG this month
Like in the months before I can provide you with the coupon code for a 20% discount for selected titles at DriveThruRPG. This month’s code is DTRPGAprilPodBlog2011 and it’s valid for the following...
April 11, 2011