Some weeks ago I posted about “Thrilling Noir Stories”, my roleplaying game inspired by the film noir genre. The latest playtest version codenamed “Bogart” is already pretty good, but still needs more testing....
UncleBear, father figure of RPG Bloggers has started a new movement: ROLPUNK! So, what’s this all about? Let the man speak for himself: Rolpunk (one L, no E) is about pure, stripped down,...
Today I want to give you an update on what’s brewing at Stargazer’s World right now. Just today I finished the first draft of a rather long post (1771 words so far) that...
I can’t exactly remember when I decided to run my own games as game master. When I am not mistaken I have been playing roleplaying games for some time already when I read...
The latest episode of RPG Circus has been released a few days ago, but I just now managed to listen to it. As always I enjoyed it very much and a highlight of...
Inspired by Chgowiz’s Siege Perilous project I am tempted to run my own Ultima campaign using Swords & Wizardry rules. Alas he only covered the early parts of the series (Ultima I –...
When you read some of my older post you’ll notice that I praised D&D 4th Edition on numerous occasions and recently I have become more of a critic. For quite some time I...
If you haven’t been living under a rock for quite some time, you probably noticed a growing trend in the RPG hobby: OD&D is back with a vengeance. Ok, in most cases it’s...
It all started with the Fantasy Craft preview PDF. While I was paging through it, my girlfriend was sitting next to me, and when we reached the section about Drakes, she exclaimed: “We...
It’s probably pretty obvious that I recently discovered the world of old-school gaming for me. In a way this new passion started with Dungeonslayers (which is actually not old-school at all) and later...
There’s an interesting post about using the classic Lucasarts adventure game “Full Throttle” into a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign over at the German CP2020 blog. If you speak German or aren’t afraid to use...
I have never played the original D&D from 1974 or any other version of D&D before AD&D 2nd Edition. But then the release of several D&D retro-clones allowed me to explore what people...
It’s great to read reviews and explore the stuff that someone has written but I always found it even more interesting to get to know the persons behind the games. That’s why I...
Yesterday I learned about this video seminar and headed over to the FFG site to watch it. It consists of five videos each about 5 mins in length in which Jay Little, Senior...
Yesterday Jonathan Jacobs, editor of “Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1”, and co-founder of Nevermet Press has let us know that the OGT is now finally available as...
Yesterday I was browsing RPGNow for some free stuff, when I discovered that the PDF version of Eclipse Phase is already available for purchase. Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game of conspiracy...
This weekend I wanted to give X-plorers a try, but alas aside from my girlfriend noone was around to play, so we decided to run the mission in the back of the book...
