Hello friends! Once again, August approaches, and I awaken from my slumber and return to Stargazer’s World to participate in RPG a Day 2025. As in previous years, RPG a Day 2025 proposes...
I’m reading the new 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player’s Handbook, let’s call it D&D 5.5 for convenience. This post is not a proper review. If you follow me on social media,...
Here it is, the last speed round of the month. It’s time to catch up on days 25 to 30. The regular daily posts have all been on the themes of Skala Wyzwania’s...
Welcome back to the speed round. It’s time to catch up on days 19 to 24. Regular daily posts have all been on the themes of the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala...
Last time in the series I wrote about the “Matt Mercer” effect and the misconception that every TTRPG session has to look like an episode of “Critical Role”. Today I want to share...
So you have watched a season of Critical Role (or another high profile Actual Play series by professional actors/voice actors) and now your are interested in joining a tabletop roleplaying game? Great! But...
A lot if not the vast majority of articles, blog posts, videos about roleplaying games are focused on giving advice to game masters. From my experience and observations, most people writing or producing...
About a week ago I wrote a post about several tabletop RPGs you could check out if you want to turn your backs on D&D. This post proved quite popular, so here are...
A lot of people are pretty unhappy with Wizards of the Coast at this point and are looking for other games to explore. Instead of pointing at some obvious choices like switching to...
In the last couple of years I had to cope with mental health issues, a world-wide pandemic, and other life events that seriously messed with my ability to run roleplaying games. At this...
Yesterday I picked up a copy of Wonderdraft, a really easy-to-use fantasy map creation tool, and started playing around with it. Why did I buy Wonderdraft instead of just using Campaign Cartographer, which...
Saying no to my players is something I’ve struggled with for years. In my early years I was actually pretty restrictive, which sometimes led to frustration from my players. Eventually I tried to...
Like the Spanish Inquisition in a Monty Python sketch, nobody expects a post by Sunglar! If you search for my last post, it was August 5th last year, the supposed first post in...
Even though this is not a traditional Chinese curse as often claimed, it makes for a perfect title when you intend to sum up what’s going on right now. The current times are...
Please note that this post contains mentions of mental illnesses, ableism, and suicide. When it comes to the roleplaying games community there’s no shortage of scandals and constant drama. The latest controversy is...
About two and a half years ago I wrote a simple Python script which generates subsectors for me in the Cepheus Engine format. Why? Because I find rolling up a full subsector by...
Over the years I’ve posted a lot of GM advice here on the blog. I’ve also shared tips on how to be a better player. Unfortunately I sometimes get the impression that I...
