FATE review
“Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment” or FATE for short is a free roleplaying game by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue. In many ways FATE is different from classic roleplaying games like D&D for...
December 1, 2008
Stargazer
Some site updates
I’ve made a few tweaks to the site today. From now on the permalinks to pages and posts are much prettier than before. To link to this post for example you can use...
November 28, 2008
Dungeonslayers
Recently I stumbled upon a new rules-light roleplaying game called “Dungeonslayers”. Dungeonslayers consists of 12 pages of rules and is meant as a fun and easy to play fantasy RPG. There is no...
November 28, 2008
Powerless player
There are situation in roleplaying game sessions when players are totally powerless because their characters are unable to act because they are incapacitated, separated from the group or in any other situation where...
November 24, 2008
Edition Wars in levels
Today I want to point out an excellent article by fellow blogger Zachary the First. In his post “On the 4e Edition Wars, Blogging, and Levels” he divides the various discussions about the...
November 24, 2008
Monotheistic religions in roleplaying
Usually most roleplaying game backgrounds feature polytheistic religions like the classic D&D pantheon. You have several gods that are responsible for certain domains like war, trade, luck, you name it. Monotheistic religions resembling...
November 17, 2008
Dungeoncraft: Asecia reboot
During the last few months I have been working on a campaign setting called “Asecia”. The development of this world has been documented in my Dungeoncraft articles. But recently I was starting to...
November 13, 2008
Canned Meat
I am currently trying to fend of an unending onslaught of spam comments on this blog. When I woke up this morning there were 17 new comments to be approved and they were...
November 13, 2008
Heroes beyond thirty
Most of us have probably started playing when they were teenagers or when they entered college. We didn’t have a significant other, probably no job, a lot of free time and an overflowing...
November 7, 2008
I am back!
To quote Mark Twain, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. It took me some time to think about various issues and make some decisions. I won’t get back to a...
November 6, 2008
Slowing things down…
You’ve probably noticed that my “one post per day” goal has slipped several times. I don’t know if it’s because there are a lot of things in real life that occupy my free...
October 30, 2008
Dungeoncraft: The Future of Asecia
In the last few weeks I wrote about my campaign world Asecia, its people, nations, history, magic, religion, secrets and even provided you with a short story to set the mood. Currently everything...
October 28, 2008
Is D&D 4th Edition a “reboot” of D&D
When I was reading an article on io9 about J.J. Abrams Star Trek being a “reboot” it struck me. Isn’t that the same thing we have experienced with the latest edition of D&D?...
October 27, 2008
Fear of Girls
I don’t know if you guys can laugh about gamer stereotypes. I know I can. Everytime I watch the awesome movie “The Gamers” I am literally rolling on the floor laughing. Another pretty...
October 24, 2008
CthulhuTech
CthulhuTech is a strange marriage of H.P. Lovecraft‘s Cthulhu mythos and japanese big robot anime series. CthulhuTech is also the first RPG by WildFire, a labor of love of just three people who...
October 23, 2008
Scribd gem: D&D from 1974
While browsing through Scribd, fellow blogger Dominik Dießlin from the german blog Rollenspiel Almanach has found some true gems: the complete Dungeons & Dragons White Box! D&D 1974 – Rulebook 1 Men & Magic...
October 21, 2008
The Lost Continent Illyria
Some time ago our fellow RPGBlogger Philippine Gamer has posted about a D&D 4th Edition campaign setting a member of his gaming group, R. Velasco, created: “The Lost Continent Illyria – A Renaissance...
October 21, 2008