My GenCon plans
This year will be the first time I attend to GenCon in Indianapolis. For quite some time, fellow RPG bloggers like Zachary from RPG Blog II and Michael from Mad Brew Labs have...
April 6, 2010
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Lazy Easter Monday Video Post: Elder Sign
If you suffer from an overwhelming sense of dread brought on by the realization of your own insignificance in the universe, then you need Elder Sign. Check out this video to learn more:...
April 5, 2010
Dresden Files RPG: Preorder Is Go!
When I crawled out of bed a few minutes ago, I noticed that the Dresden Files RPG by Evil Hat Productions is finally available for preorder. People who preorder the books, get an...
April 5, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: PAX East 2010 Keynote
Check out this video from Wil Wheaton’s PAX East 2010 keynote: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlh7_608KUs You can watch the rest of his awesome keynote here.
April 2, 2010
Preview: Space 1889 – Red Sands
Almost exactly one year ago, Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced Space 1889: Red Sands, a Savage Worlds campaign setting based on the classic Victorian SF roleplaying game. I already own a copy of Heliograph’s...
April 1, 2010
Gears: The only constant is change!
I finally made up my mind about Gears, my roleplaying game in development. Thanks to the comments I got during the last weeks I was finally able to decide what I should focus...
March 31, 2010
Exchange of Realities
Recently fellow RPG blogger and one-time guest blogger here at Stargazer’s World Ravyn has moved her blog. She has been thinking about that step for a long time and now she’s made the...
March 31, 2010
Dresden Files RPG: Nevermore
This news is already a couple of days old, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to post this here: Recently Evil Hat Productions has made the whole 39-paged Baltimore chapter of the upcoming...
March 29, 2010
Apple’s new iPad and RPGs
I have to admit I am very excited about Apple’s upcoming iPad. In my opinion it closes the gap between smartphones and notebooks, could be a perfect alternative to ebook readers like the...
March 29, 2010
Why do I design games?
In the past people have asked me, why I bother to write games? There a already hundreds of roleplaying games out there and since I don’t intent to sell them and make some...
March 26, 2010
Freebie: Old-School Fantasy Character Pack
You might remember my recent review about Reality Blurs’ new old-school fantasy adventure “A Keg for Dragon”. Yesterday they released a couple of pregenerated characters that you can use for that adventure or...
March 26, 2010
Roleplaying Poetry
I am usually no fan of poetry, but this is so awesome: The Gamer Once inside a game store dreary, while I pondered, obese and bleary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
March 25, 2010
Ask the Readers: Where do you buy your RPG products?
That’s something that interested me for quite some time, where do you buy your roleplaying games, supplement, dice, battlemats etc.? Back in the day I bought everything at a small game shop in...
March 24, 2010
Ed Healy interviewed ChattyDM
Earlier today Ed Healy tweeted about his interview with my good friend Philippe-Antoine Ménard aka ChattyDM. They not only talk about roleplaying games but also about Philippe’s teaching, politics and more. You definitely...
March 24, 2010
Review: “A Keg for Dragon”
Old School Fantasy #1: “A Keg for Dragon” is the latest adventure from Reality Blurs for Savage Worlds. I am a big fan of Savage Worlds but I never ran any classic fantasy...
March 23, 2010
Freebie: Warrior, Rogue & Mage
Yesterday around 10pm local time I had an idea for a rule-light fantasy RPG with some old-school feel to it. The result is “Warrior, Rogue & Mage” a four-paged PDF containing complete rules...
March 22, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: “Making the Most of Mythic Structure”
This time I want to share a video from the Neoncon 2009 GamesU with you. In this 51-minutes video Matthew Grau from WildFire LLC talks about the monomyth (aka the hero’s journey) and...
March 19, 2010