Diseases in roleplaying games
Earlier that week I have been coping with a nasty cold. My head felt like someone smashed it with a sledgehammer, I was freezing all the time, overall I felt awful. And don’t...
February 10, 2012
Advice
The trouble with social conflicts
I have been roleplaying for about two decades now but there’s still one thing that causes me headaches as a GM: social conflicts. Usually when player characters act in a roleplaying game, it’s...
February 9, 2012
Advice / Ask The Readers / Fluff/Inspiration / Improve Your Game / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Storyteller
Game Mastering Conundrums… Limiting player choices!
For those wondering why there was no post yesterday, the Stargazer is sick! Doesn’t seem to be anything life threatening (sorry guys we are not inheriting the blog just yet!). With our fearless...
February 7, 2012
Ask The Stargazer: “Would you be willing to provide some insight into your thoughts on layout for free RPG PDFs?”
A couple of days ago Stargazer Games fan and fellow amateur game designer Michael M. contacted me via email and asked me to share a few tricks on doing the layout for free...
January 24, 2012
Sandbox games: A collection of links
When I had the idea of running a sandbox game I did some research first. Especially when you try a new game or a new style of GMing things can go terribly wrong...
January 19, 2012
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Learning is good for you! And gaming too…
To say that role-playing games have been good for me is an understatement. Besides the countless hours of fun they’ve provided, the lasting friendships that have been forged and the way it has...
December 14, 2011
My take on “unfinished business”
In his latest post Roberto (aka Sunglar) shared his thoughts about “unfinished business”, campaigns that never came to a proper end. I have to admit I know this all too well. When it...
December 6, 2011
Advice / Fluff/Inspiration / Humor / Improve Your Game / Mutants & Masterminds / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / RPG
Unfinished business
I think as a whole we human beings are completists. We want to complete what we began; we want the whole story. We crave to know the conclusion, and when we don’t get...
December 2, 2011
Searching For The Best RPG
I have been on an epic quest these last few months tirelessly searching for what could be considered the very best table top pen and paper role playing game out there. My fingers...
November 24, 2011
Ask The Stargazer: “How should one go about starting an rpg blog?”
Yesterday I got the following email: Dear Michael/Stargazer, My question for you sir, is this? How should one go about starting an RPG blog? I have some ideas for content but my technology-fu...
November 17, 2011
TRPBTNTWA or “Things Role Playing Bloggers Tend Not To Write About”
Fellow RPG blogger Noisms came up with a list of subjects RPG bloggers usually don’t write about. Alas I was oblivious to the existence of said blog until I read an article posted...
November 11, 2011
Using the Kindle at the game table
Yesterday I finally got my Kindle. For quite a while I have been pondering whether I should buy one or not. Last August I bought an iPad and actually thought it might double...
November 9, 2011
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
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