Putting fantastic back into Fantasy
Yesterday I played in another session of Chris McDowall’s “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. As always we had a blast and it also inspired me to write about putting back the fantastic...
November 4, 2011
Advice
Ask The Stargazer!
For a while now I have been thinking about starting a new hopefully regular feature on Stargazer’s World called “Ask The Stargazer!”. So what’s the idea behind this new feature? You can send...
October 31, 2011
NaGa DeMon, NaNoWriMo and Scrivener
No, we’re not talking about demonic snake-like people from Indian mythology here. Nathan Russel, the guy who created the awesome FU RPG among other things, had a great idea. Why not take the...
October 26, 2011
Puerto Rico Role Players GM Workshop
I often write about these things after the fact… maybe I should write about them before and more people will find out about it. Food for thought! This past Sunday Puerto Rico Role...
October 12, 2011
Free FATE
Recently I decided to switch to Free FATE for my current FATE games. This has mainly three reasons: It’s free. We used Starblazer Adventures before, which is an awesome FATE game, but I...
October 10, 2011
More Google+ Hangout musings
Yesterday I had my second game over Google+ Hangout (check out my post about my first game there) and again, everyone had a blast. Of course we had to fight some technical issues...
September 28, 2011
Almost as good as the real deal: playing RPGs over Google+ Hangout
Yesterday I joined Chris McDowall and a group of three players I didn’t know before that in a game of “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. In this post I want to talk...
September 23, 2011
Teaching new games to an old group …
I think a lot of GMs love to try new stuff: new games, new rules, new campaigns. But more often than not players are hesitant to try something new. Some groups never want...
September 14, 2011
Time to Speak Out with my Geek Out… Role-Playing Games in my case!
Well that should come as no surprise… Past post and the theme of the blog should be a dead giveaway. But this is supposed to be a post about why I love my...
September 12, 2011
Victorian & Steampunk Name Generator
I am terrible when it comes to coming up names for my characters. So whenever possible I make use of random name generators. As I mentioned several times before I am currently waiting...
September 8, 2011
Review: City Builder Generator Pack
I love random generators of all kinds. Especially when it comes to coming up with names for NPCs or creating all the small details needed to flesh out one of the less important...
September 5, 2011
Review: The World’s Greatest Screen
Recently I was looking for another customizable GM screen. While I was quite happy with the “Savage Worlds Customizable GM Screen” for a while, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to look if there...
August 31, 2011
Every RPG should have its own soundtrack!
On the weekend I started playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which is actually a prequel to the original Deus Ex that was released over a decade ago. I like the game a lot...
August 30, 2011
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From Weird West to Barbarians of the Future
Today I want to share a couple of things I stumbled upon during the last days. Tomb of the Overfiend Weird West is definitely one of coolest old-school games ever conceived. It’s extremely...
August 17, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 3
When last we left our valiant adventurers, they had climbed Mt. Doom and were about to toss the Ring into the giant Volcano… wait… think that is a different story. Ah yes! Now...
August 15, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 2
Last time, I talked about my plans for using L5R as our game system of choice, due to its relatively easy rules and also thematically easy to relate to premise. I also decided that we are going to be going a bit away from a purely murder, death, kill, loot style of gaming. But, when last we parted, I wasn’t exactly sure about what I would be doing with the game; this week, the game type gets narrowed down, and we move into the realm of character creation. Good stuff.
August 9, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 1
So my friends, I come to you in the very odd position of being married to a muggle. I don’t mean the non-magical kind, but rather the non-RPG-interested kind. I got married a...
July 29, 2011