Twitter Trouble!
This post has nothing to with roleplaying games, but with something happening on Twitter right now. Please don’t stop reading, because I need your help! Some hours ago some person started tweeting to...
February 4, 2010
Stargazer
What’s on my reading list right now?
I don’t think there ever was a time during the last 20 years or so, when there wasn’t at least one roleplaying game book lying on my bedside cabinet. I actually believe it...
February 3, 2010
Other Videogames That Should Be Turned Into Pen and Paper RPGs @ allgeektout
Fellow RPG blogger Aaron Broder followed up on my post about videogames that should be made into Pen and Paper RPGs yesterday with a post of his own. He talks about Bioshock, the...
February 3, 2010
DIY: Binding your printed PDFs
I know that a lot of gamers own PDF versions of roleplaying games, either because their is no printed version, the PDF version was way less expensive or they just didn’t want to...
February 2, 2010
Five Things You Should Never Say to Your DM
Geek blog “Geeks are Sexy” has shown its love for Dungeon Masters last Friday. Their post “Five Things You Should Never Say to Your DM” is their way to praise the unsung heroes...
February 1, 2010
Videogames that should be turned into pen & paper RPGs
Recently the extremely successful Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware was brought to the gaming table by Green Ronin Publishing. But the Dragon Age RPG is much more than just a simple conversion of...
February 1, 2010
Chimera RPG Price Reduction
When I opened my mailbox today I noticed that The Welsh Piper has sent its January 2010 newsletter. The most important news is that the Chimera RPG is now available for the reduced...
February 1, 2010
Get a free copy of KQ#10 until January 31
I think everyone already knows about the KQ store giving away the PDF version of Kobold Quarterly #10 for free until the end of the month. This post is just meant as a...
January 28, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life (Update)
It seems Penny Arcade joined the discussion about a court’s ruling to take away a prisoners D&D books, too: One commenter also provided us with two links to websites with further information on...
January 28, 2010
News from the Dresden Files RPG
Yesterday’s post on the official The Dreden Files RPG website made my entire day: Evil Hat Productions Brings The World of Harry Dresden To Life With The Dresden Files Role Playing Game Silver...
January 27, 2010
Ask The Readers: What was your first game?
From what I’ve heard the majority of gamers started playing with a variation of D&D, may it be the original D&D from 1974, AD&D 2nd Edition or the more recent D&D 3rd Edition...
January 27, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life
I just found this news at BoingBoing and thought I should share it with you: Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing game since he was a child, according...
January 26, 2010
Review: Alpha Omega – The Encountered Volume 1
In my “Best & Worst in Gaming 2009” posts, I picked the Alpha Omega RPG game line for “Best Production Values”. If you want your non-gamer friends get interested in the hobby just...
January 25, 2010
Join us on #rpmn
Some time ago, a couple of members of the Roleplay Media Network got fed up with the network’s chat feature. The chat provided by Ning tends to hang regularly, swallows whole messages and...
January 25, 2010
[Blog Carnival]: “We travel light. Let’s hunt some Orc.”
When you are a player, you probably don’t need much material to be able to participate in a roleplaying game. You need a pen, some paper and a couple of dice and you’re...
January 22, 2010
[Blog Carnival]: How to make travel in your games more exciting
There’s the easy way to handle travel in your game and that’s just skipping it: “After four days of eventless travel you reach your destination.” Alas this is not very interesting. Don’t get...
January 21, 2010
Gamers Help Haiti Product Bundle @ DriveThruRPG
As you probably already know, One Book Shelf, the company behind RPGNow and DrivethruRPG is raising money to help the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. The fund raising effort has been a great...
January 20, 2010