Work in progress
Although I am more or less in “vacation-mode” and being lazy most of the time, I started working on a new campaign project. I won’t spill the beans right now, but I wanted...
August 12, 2009
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X-plorers released
David Bezio just informed me in the comments to my last X-plorers post that the final version is available now on Lulu for download as a PDF or for order as paperback book....
August 12, 2009
Give Dungeonslayers a 2nd chance
I am pretty sure some of you have already read about Dungeonslayers. In November of last year I first read about the project and wrote a short blog post about it. Then the...
August 10, 2009
To Savage or Not to Savage
When you convert an existing campaign setting or game to the Savage Worlds rules you have “savaged” the setting. But there’s one important question: does it make sense to savage every setting? Savage...
August 7, 2009
When in doubt, use RISUS
During the creation of my one-page dungeon “The Horror of Leatherbury House” I thought about easy ways to provide stats for the different NPCs without using a specific set of rules. One idea...
August 7, 2009
Dungeonslayers updates
While I was busy with some other projects the Dungeonslayers community was working hard on several new supplements for my favorite “old-fashioned” RPG: Into the Breach This supplement adds optional rules to Dungeonslayer...
August 7, 2009
On WotC’s fan site kit policy
Yesterday our side of the Twitterverse was in uproar about Wizard’s silly new fan site kit policy. I usually don’t cover 4th Edition stuff and I’ve decided to stop posting about D&D 4th...
August 7, 2009
“The hobby is far from being dead!”
This time, the quote is by me. If you ask me, all those doomsayers that think the pen & paper roleplaying hobby will vanish in a few years are wrong. At first, we...
August 6, 2009
“Pen & paper games will be forgotten in ten years”
No, that line is not from me, but from game designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Games Workshop and creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. He has said these words in a recent interview...
August 5, 2009
Happy birthday, Stargazer’s World!
One year ago, I wrote my first article “Beyond Azeroth” and if you told me back then that my blog would have hundreds of pageviews every day and over 140 subscribers, I would...
August 4, 2009
Vacation time
I just wanted to let you all know that I am having two weeks off from work and that usually leads to me being lazy beyond belief, sleeping until midday and sitting on...
August 3, 2009
There’s more to OGL than d20 (Part 2)
This is the second and concluding (for now at least) episode of my series on OGL games. D&D 3rd Edition and the d20 System started it all, but a lot of other companies...
July 31, 2009
Reading Recommendation: “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming”
I have never played the early editions of D&D. Not even one of the retro-clones that are now freely available all over the internet. The oldest game I’ve ever played was the original...
July 30, 2009
What kind of player are you?
I just read about a quiz that reveals what kind of player you are and of course I had to give it a try. And it seems I am a Storyteller (I am...
July 30, 2009
There’s more to OGL than d20 (Part 1)
A couple of years back, when Wizards of the Coast released 3rd Edition of D&D, they not only updated the famous franchise, but they also gave us the Open Gaming License. For the...
July 29, 2009
NOIR is now “Thrilling Noir Stories”
“It was another cold and rainy night. I was sitting in my 20 square yards appartment and bureau, staring into a half-empty glass of bourbon whiskey. A knock on the door brought me...
July 28, 2009
What if Ghostbusters was made in the 1950s?
Ok, this is another post that has nothing to do with roleplaying games. But this video was just too great not to post here. Enjoy! Now, someone should make another Ghostbusters RPG already!...
July 28, 2009