New avatar!
Today Kyle Ferrin created a cool new avatar for me. All he needed was a photo of me and $25 that I payed via PayPal. And he did an awesome job. Especially the...
March 18, 2010
Stargazer
Secret dice rolls
When I remember correctly I’ve always rolled behind the GM screen when I was running a game. My first GM did the same, as did most GMs I met in my life. Recently...
March 18, 2010
Our first RPG pub meeting was a success!
Some time ago, I wrote about the plans to organize a regular, RPG-themed pub meeting. Yesterday we finally had our first meeting and it was a great success. More people than we anticipated...
March 17, 2010
Posts from Stargazer’s World will be included in OGT2
I have known this for some time now, but I wanted to wait with this announcement, to give Jonathan Jacobs the chance to post it first: Several of my articles written for Stargazer’s...
March 17, 2010
GUMSHOE Sale on RPGNow
I just read about this on Simon Rogers’ LiveJournal blog: All of our GUMSHOE PDF products are on sale over at rpgnow.com at a 15% discount until 19th March. Our average rating over...
March 15, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen’s Duel
I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers. The movie is not only extremely...
March 12, 2010
“Blog of a new RPGer” interview
As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview...
March 11, 2010
Good news for all Iron Kingdom fans!
I almost overlooked yesterday’s post at Purple Pawn. But then I scrolled back and read the headline again: “It’s Alive: The Iron Kingdoms RPG Lives!" I have to admit I had to rub...
March 10, 2010
Get the “World of Darkness” rulebook for free this week
I just found out that the World of Darkness rulebook is available for free on RPGNow in celebration of “Read an E-Book Week”. This 224-paged PDF is the core rulebook for all “new”...
March 9, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Forgeworks
Finally the first official supplement for the Dungeonslayers game has been translated into English. Forgeworks by Christian Kennig is a 4-paged PDF containing new weapons, armor, and magic items for his free roleplaying...
March 8, 2010
The A-Team: A model for RPG campaigns?
Yesterday while watching an episode of The A-Team on TV, it struck me. Wouldn’t The A-Team make a perfect model for a RPG campaign? Let’s look at the basic premise, which is summed...
March 8, 2010
Stargazer’s World moved to a new server!
Some of you may have noticed that Stargazer’s World was extremely slow recently. Today it got unbearable and I decided to call the company that hosts the site. After a few minutes looking...
March 7, 2010
Gears: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
While developing Gears I have encountered many situations where I was not sure if the direction I am taking with the game is the right direction. While working on the combat section of...
March 4, 2010
Annual GM’s Day Sale at RPGNow
As every year, OneBookShelf is celebrating the GM day by having a big sale. The products of participating companies will be 25% off between March 3rd and March 8th. So what are you...
March 4, 2010
New Tunnels & Troll magazine
Dan Prentice just informed a about the cool new Tunnels & Troll magazine called “TrollsZine” that he is publishing together with Kevin Bracey. Issue #1 has been released yesterday and the 57-paged PDF...
March 3, 2010
Chronicles of the Four Dragons
Chronicles is one of the many game designs I have floating around on my hard disk. And like most of these abandoned projects, it’s totally untested, probably extremely unbalanced and unfinished. But it...
March 2, 2010
Dungeonslayers: The Runes of Oblivion
Yesterday Christian Kennig released another one-page dungeon for his free, old-fashioned roleplaying game Dungeonslayers. Here’s the blurb from the official site: “Get up!” – the elf came slowly to. What’s going on? What...
March 2, 2010