Freebie: Arcane Heroes
Yesterday I finished my first play-through of Fable III, the latest game by Lionhead Studios. For some reason this game inspired me to create a 5-paged roleplaying game which uses a few elements...
November 1, 2010
Stargazer
Chimera Basic is out! Get it now for free!
The Welsh Piper just released his latest RPG: Chimera Basic. Like Chimera 2.0 it’s a rules-lite RPG that can be used in any genre. Chimera Basic is a 42-paged PDF which is a...
November 1, 2010
Eclipse Phase – A Study in Philanthropy
If you are even remotely interested in Science Fiction roleplaying games, you might have heard about Eclipse Phase by Posthuman Studios. It’s set in a future where being human is quite different from...
October 27, 2010
The State of the Industry and SPIEL
On last Saturday I attended SPIEL, the international game and toy fair in Essen, Germany. It’s the largest consumer fair of its kind with over 150,000 people attending every year. Especially this year...
October 27, 2010
Infinities
Roleplaying game settings based on an existing book, movie or computer game franchise can be either a boon or a curse. On the one hand you usually get a fully fleshed-out world which...
October 26, 2010
Iron Dynasty – Way of the Ronin
It’s been months since Gen Con and I still haven’t read all the books I’ve picked up there, let alone reviewed them. One of the books that impressed me most in August was...
October 26, 2010
Wolfgang Baur, Chris Pramas, and Michael Furlanetto to work on new patronage project
I just got word from Open Design that they’ll be launching a new adventure design project called “Dark Deeds in Freeport”. As already revealed in the title, Wolgang Baur (Kobold-in-chief of Kobold Quarterly),...
October 25, 2010
Some thoughts on SPIEL ‘10
On Saturday my girlfriend and I accompanied some friends to the world’s biggest consumer fair for gaming, the SPIEL in Essen, Germany. On over 44,100 square meters, all kinds of games are shown,...
October 25, 2010
Fudge SRD TiddlyWiki
What’s better than the Fudge SRD? The Fudge SRD in TiddlyWiki format! One of the regulars of the #stargazersworld IRC channel on sorcery.net who goes by the name fudgebob has created a TiddlyWiki...
October 21, 2010
Dungeonslayers in the pub
Yesterday I had the opportunity to run a session of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeonslayers at our regular RPG pub meeting. We actually had two groups with four and three players respectively....
October 20, 2010
Lapsus Calumni
Lapsus Calumni is the title of M.S. Jackson’s internet fanzine and its accompanying blog. His more recent fanzine issues contained great material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Lapsus Calumni #5 – The Head...
October 18, 2010
Review: Printed Dice
Some time ago, Abraham Neddermann aka the Dice Creator showed a method on his blog on how to create custom dice easily. You just need glossy photo paper, a laser printer and a...
October 15, 2010
Strands of Fate
Strands of Fate is a heavily modified version of the FATE rules written by Mike McConnell. The idea behind Strands of Fate was to create a streamlined version of FATE which can be...
October 11, 2010
RPG books on the iPad
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
October 6, 2010
Gears is not dead yet
Some of you may still remember that I was working on another RPG project earlier this year, called Gears. In June I decided to put Gears on a backburner and focused more on...
October 5, 2010
Review: Kingdom Builder Generator Pack II
In February I previewed Chaotic Shiny Productions’ Kingdom Builder Generator Pack I which I helped to beta test back then. Some time ago Hannah Lipsky finished the new Kingdom Generator Pack II which...
October 4, 2010
The IT Crowd – Series 1-4 Special Edition Box Set
The IT Crowd is one of the favorite shows of geeks all around the world. A couple of days ago a special edition DVD box set including all four series has been released....
October 4, 2010