The Future of Roleplaying
This month’s blog carnival hosted by RoleplayingPro is about “The Future of Roleplaying”. He was kind enough to give us a couple of questions as inspiration for our posts and I will take up his...
May 12, 2009
Stargazer
One-page dungeon contest reminder
I am pretty sure most of you have already heard about the one-page dungeon contest held by our fellow bloggers Chgowiz and ChattyDM. But I think it’s in order to remind you that...
May 11, 2009
Dungeonslayers review @ “Here Be Gamers”
The roleplaying podcast “Here Be Gamers” has been reviewing Dungeonslayers, the game I helped translating from German to English some weeks ago. If you like listening to RPG podcasts and are still undecided,...
May 11, 2009
Ad Astra: PDQ vs. D6 1:0
Yesterday my gaming group assembled to play our first session of “Ad Astra”. Alas I wasn’t able to finish everything I wanted to have written down at that point, but we decided it...
May 10, 2009
Ad Astra Primer
Today I created an “Ad Astra Primer”, a system-less introduction to my science fiction setting. The 13-page PDF includes all of my Ad Astra posts that I already posted here and a few...
May 7, 2009
Ad Astra: Twilight Star
Although I am still in the middle of my hiatus, I want to share some more information on my Ad Astra setting. “I want this Twilight Star scum killed on sight!” – General-Emperor...
May 7, 2009
Taking a short break
I wanted to let you all know that I will take a short break from blogging. I am again at a point where I have the feeling that my creativity batteries have run...
May 4, 2009
Get “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu” for just $2 each
One of my favorite games I never played is True20 by Green Ronin. Recently I learned about two awesome new settings for that game: “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu“. The first is a modern cyberpunk...
April 30, 2009
Ad Astra: The Psitech League
Almost as powerful as one of the major nations of the Star Ocean is the Psitech League. Without Espers interstellar travel would be impossible and the League is the largest and most influential...
April 28, 2009
Creating an old-school map in GIMP
As you probably remember, the One-Page Dungeon Contest hosted by fellow RPG bloggers ChattyDM and Chgowiz in on. Some people have already started sending in their dungeons, others (like me) are still working...
April 27, 2009
WoW Intervention
Yeah, yeah, in one of my first posts I wrote that this blog is about pen & paper RPGs only and that I won’t post about WoW and other MMOs. But this video...
April 24, 2009
The Magical Gnome
Today fellow blogger VulcanStev has setup “The Magical Gnome“, a Play-by-Post forum, where you can host and join PbP games. The site was created using the the NING social network service, so the...
April 23, 2009
Interview with Chad Underkoffler
With the release of “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies” (get it at RPGNow or IPR) a few days ago, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to ask Chad Underkoffler, if he...
April 23, 2009
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies now available over RPGNow
If you are interested in swashbuckling fantasy RPGs you probably have heard of Chad Underkoffler’s latest work “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies“. The hardcover version has been available for some time now at...
April 22, 2009
Ad Astra: The Akkathon Federation
Today I am finally returning to the world of “Ad Astra”. This time I will present to you the Akkathon Federation, a federation by name only that is more of a loose alliance...
April 22, 2009
Roleplaying in the world of “On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness”
“On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness” is an episodic adventure RPG for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 set into a pseudo-victorian world where lovecraftian horror, pulp adventures and the twisted humor of...
April 21, 2009