Will WotC shut us down next?
According to a post at ENWorld Wizards of the Coast has sent a Cease & Desist letter to 4epowercards.com. This time a site has been hit that offered power cards for 4E for free....
February 20, 2009
Stargazer
What’s new with Dungeonslayers?
Some time ago I introduced Dungeonslayers to you, a free and easy beer-and-pretzels roleplaying game. I have finished the translation of the everything but the introductory adventure and the character creation section has already been...
February 19, 2009
My first CC3 map
Yesterday I finally sat down to create my first map in Campaign Cartographer 3. I bought the software and played a bit around, but never actually made a proper map with it. Now...
February 19, 2009
Stargazer’s RPG podcast recommendations
When I got my first iPod I fell in love with podcasts. I commute by train for about an hour every day. And the best way to spend this hour is by listening...
February 17, 2009
Some free games I found at RPGNow
I am looking for new and exciting games. A simple and cheap way to try out some new games or to at least broaden your horizon is to check RPGNow‘s free game downloads....
February 17, 2009
Fear of Girls Episode III
“Fear of Girls” is a hilarious, ongoing webseries about two gamers that probably fulfill every single silly stereotype. The series isn’t as great as my all-time favorite “The Gamers“, but no roleplaying game...
February 13, 2009
Stargazer’s RPG Stuff
Inspired by fellow RPG blogger Zachary’s post “Using Google Sites For Your Campaign” I created a Google Sites site of my own that I will fill with everything that goes beyond the scope...
February 12, 2009
Check out this d20!
While reading Wil Wheaton’s blog (yup, that guy who played Wesley Crusher back in the day), I stumbled upon this post. I just had to share this awesome d20 with you. I wish...
February 12, 2009
My first thoughts on Goodman’s “Level Up” magazine
I have to admit that I haven’t heard about Goodman Games’ 4E magazine “Level Up” until a few minutes ago, when I noticed that criticalhits has twittered about it. Perhaps I’ve actually read...
February 10, 2009
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
One of the RPG Blogs I’ve subscribed in Google Reader is the german blog Rollenspiel-Almanach. Today a post about Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies grabbed my attention. I actually haven’t heard of that...
February 10, 2009
Map for my Dungeonslayers campaign
Since my group wants to continue playing Dungeonslayers, I’ve decided to create a small campaign world to play in. It’s nothing fancy of course but it’s just enough information to use as a...
February 9, 2009
Dungeonslayers: Playtest report
Yesterday, a few friends came over to my place to play some games. One of the things I had prepared was Dungeonslayers, a free, rules-light, old-school game. The 18-page rulebook contains the rules...
February 8, 2009
Short list of RPGs released under CC
In a couple of posts I wrote about copyright, Creative Commons, OGL and related topics. Today, I searched the internet for some roleplaying games that actually have been released under a CC license....
February 6, 2009
My thoughts on OGL, GSL and beyond
When Wizards of the Coast decided to release the 3.0 (and the following 3.5) Edition of their popular roleplaying game D&D we saw a lot of 3rd party supplements and OGL games. Of...
February 5, 2009
Roleplaying music: Elyrion – Call of the Titans
In October I promised you a proper review of Erdenstern’s new CD “Elyrion – Call of Titans“. Their last work is not part of their usual “Into the …” line but it’s a...
February 4, 2009
Create custom fonts for free
Yesterday I stumbled upon an article on Lifehacker that could be of some interest to all GMs out there. The service YourFonts allows you to create your own TrueType font for free. Most...
February 3, 2009