Review: Campaign Cartographer 3 and Addons
Campaign Cartographer 3 is definitely one of the RPG tools I wish I had more time to work with. When you design your own…
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Strategy game meets RPG
On the weekend I downloaded a game called “Rebuild” onto my iPad. In this game you reclaim a city one square at a time…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
mashupforge
Have you ever dreamed about creating a Google Maps style map of your campaign world? My friend and fellow RPG blogger Zakharov Sawyer recently…
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…
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…
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…
WordPress Dice Roller
Recently I was made aware of some pretty cool dice roller widgets created by Awesome Dice for WordPress. There’s a D&D Dice Roller Widget…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…