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
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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
Ask The Readers: What’s your favorite genre?
We all know that the game that started it all in 1974 was firmly set into the fantasy genre and without doubt tolkienesque fantasy is still the favorite genre for most roleplayers. But...
March 1, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Un Gioco di Ruolo All’Antica
It seems Dungeonslayers can’t be stopped! Just a few weeks ago I wrote about the French version and just yesterday an Italian publisher has released an Italian translation. This is actually the first...
February 25, 2010
Three more blogs you should be reading
In January I recommended three blogs you should be reading. Although that post didn’t get as many attention as I hoped, I still think it’s a good thing to point out interesting blogs...
February 24, 2010
Organizing a regulars’ table
Some time ago I was asked by an old friend if I would like to participate in a regulars’ table focused on the RPG hobby. He already had decided on a location and...
February 23, 2010
Poll: Should “Stargazer’s World” cover non-RPG topics as well?
I recently made sure that the RPG Bloggers Network only gets the RPG-related posts by creating a special RPG-only RSS feed. This change had become necessary because I wanted our new team member...
February 22, 2010
Gears: Skills
This time I want to talk about skills in Gears. In my last post about Gears I explained how the core mechanic works. Usually you roll 3d6 (add some modifiers) and compare the...
February 22, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: “How To Play Dungeons and Dragons”
While looking for interesting RPG-related videos I stumbled upon this one: And I don’t really know what the creators intended this to be: a parody or serious advice. If it’s a parody, it’s...
February 19, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Dungeon2Go #4 released
The Dungeonslayers community is still hard working to provide fans all around the world with new one-page adventures. Recently a team of five dedicated fans has translated Christian Kennig’s “Night of the Damned”...
February 18, 2010
Gears: the core mechanic
I promised you more posts about my upcoming Gears roleplaying game system and this time I want to share some thoughts on the core mechanic. When I started the project I was still...
February 17, 2010