D&D 4th Edition Firearms
There has always been D&D campaign settings that featured firearms, even the Forgotten Realms had their share of boomsticks with the gnomish smokepowder weapons.…
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Hinterland
Yesterday Titled Mills released the computer game “Hinterland” over Steam. In that game you play a character that was tasked by the king to…
Free solitaire game: Inquisition
Perhaps you know 1KM1KT, an excellent site that publishes new free roleplaying games on a regular basis. Today they made Inquisition available, a solitaire…
RIFTS Ultimate Edition – Just my two cents
When I today opened my mailbox I found an US airmail envelope with the RIFTS Ultimate Edition inside it. I ordered it some time…
Fantasy Superheroes
We all know the classic superhero comics. Usually they are set into our modern world and the heroes wear either spandex or leather suits…
More prop generators!
In my last post I wrote about the Newspaper Clipping Generator, but there are a lot of generators available on the internet that can…
Newspaper Clippings
I always love to use props and one of my favorite prop are newspaper clippings. Usually I used a word processor like Word or…
One GM screen to rule them all
I have seen a lot GM screens in my roleplaying times and most of them were either not too sturdy or the information printed…
Dungeoncraft: Religion on Asecia
In most medieval-fantasy campaigns the gods are very real, they grant spells to their most devout followers and they sometimes even walk the earth.…
Is d20 Modern dead?
When I am not totally mistaken the last major release for d20 Modern was d20 Dark•Matter and it was released in September 2006. The most recent…
Roleplaying music – “The Witcher”
Recently CDProjekt has released the Enhanced Edition of its roleplaying game “The Witcher”. The game uses a heavily modified Neverwinter Nights engine and it’s…
First Look: Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide
On Saturday I got my copy of one of WotC’s latest books, the Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide. Although the Player’s Guide is a bit…
Roleplaying music – “Thief – Deadly Shadows”
When “Thief – Deadly Shadows” (aka Thief III) was released, Ion Storm also made the games’ soundtrack available for download. The games’ score consist…
Freebie: Ars Magica 4th Edition
Long before White Wolf created their World of Darkness there was Ars Magica by Atlas Games. And when you first have a look at…
GM Advice: How to handle “GM’s block”
GM’s block is a problem you’ve probably experienced yourself in the past. It is the inability to run or prepare roleplaying sessions due to…
Dungeoncraft: Secrets!
Secrets are what makes a campaign setting more interesting and deep. The old man sitting on the bench under the big tree in the…
Roleplaying music – Bioshock
The award-winning computer game Bioshock takes place in an underwater city called Rapture, where the dream of scientists and artists turned into nightmare. The…
Pirates are playing in the sandbox
This saturday, we concluded our first Pirates of the Spanish Main adventure. I used the adventure that was printed in the back of the…
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
We are still there! LHC has not killed us (yet), so we still have some time left to play post-apocalyptic roleplaying games! There are…
Post/page ratings and iPhone support
This morning I installed two plugins that will make reading this blog even more enjoyable! WP-PostRatings You’ve probably already noticed the small star icons…