A Study in Emerald
I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Yesterday I found out that Neil Gaiman has written a short story called “A Study...
July 7, 2009
Stargazer
Creepy!
If you need inspiration for your next horror RPG adventure, check out this video: Some of you may actually have seen this already. According to this article the creature is living in the...
July 3, 2009
OGT available at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
This morning I noticed that the “Open Game Table” is finally available at Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk! This is good news for us Europeans, since shipping from the US not only takes ages but...
July 2, 2009
Cloudship Atlantis
Cloudship Atlantis is a free steampunk RPG written by fellow RPG blogger Rob Lang as his entry to the 24h RPG Contest. Considering that this game has been designed and edited in just 24h,...
July 2, 2009
Warning! This post may cause 1D6 SAN loss!
I’ve seen quite a lot of roleplaying games in my time and I’ve even encountered a few pretty strange ones. But there’s one game that strikes fear in the heart of even the...
July 2, 2009
One-Page Dungeon Contest winners announced
Today Chgowiz and ChattyDM announced the winners of the “One Page Dungeon Contest”. 6 judges including the aforementioned RPG bloggers as well as Dave: the Game, Sham, Amityville Mike and Alex Schroeder had...
July 1, 2009
DM of the Rings
Imagine you are running a D&D campaign for your friends based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. It might look something like this: Today, while checking the latest posts on BoingBoing I...
June 30, 2009
Lost Kingdoms Campaign Setting
Michael Garcia released another freebie over at Quick & Dirty Games. This time it’s a complete campaign setting called “Lost Kingdoms”. The 8-paged PDF is licensed under a Creative Commons license and was...
June 30, 2009
Agatha Heterodyne
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I tried to come up with a Savage Worlds version of Agatha Heterodyne, the heroine from Kaja and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius. Creating this character was actually...
June 30, 2009
Girl Genius!
This month’s blog carnival hosted by Mad Brew Labs is about Steampunk & Klokwerks. Steampunk is (as you probably know) one of my favourite genres and so it’s no surprise that I wanted...
June 29, 2009
Forsaken Bounty
On Free RPG Day a free copy of Forsaken Bounty, the introductory adventure to the upcoming Rogue Trader RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, was available at participating game shops. Alas not everyone was...
June 25, 2009
Doctor Who RPG comes in October
According to an announcement of the Cubicle 7 site and this forum post, the Doctro Who RPG is finally coming in October. Why any mention of that game had been removed from the...
June 25, 2009
Quick & Dirty Games website launched
Today the website of the new roleplaying game publisher and design studio Quick & Dirty Games launched. Q&D Games is the brain-child of Michael Garcia, who some of you probably know from his...
June 24, 2009
Gaming on the cheap
Roleplaying games can be an expensive hobby, especially when you are the game master. Imagine you want to run games using everyone’s favorite fantasy game. You usually need at least one copy of...
June 22, 2009
Using Savage Worlds for an Eberron campaign
Inspired by Berin Kinsman’s post “Why Savage Worlds is Heir to 3rd Edition” I am thinking about running an Eberron Campaign using Savage World rules. Some of you are probably asking why someone...
June 18, 2009