Survival: A Mini-Game of the Zombie Apocalypse
So, I made a tabletop role-playing game! 😊 You can download the PDF of the first edition here: Survival: A Mini-Game of the Zombie…
✦ Category: Ask The Readers
Playtest & Feedback Request – Survival: A Mini-Game of the Zombie Apocalypse
Hello, dear readers. I have a favor to ask. If you’ve read my posts here on the blog or across social media over the…
Runeslinger & Company Discuss the Questing Beast Survey
A few days ago, I wrote a post sharing the Questing Beast Survey on RPG Playstyles. While I shared it as an interesting attempt…
Questing Beast’s RPG Playstyles Survey
Ben Milton—creator of the YouTube channel Questing Beast and the tabletop games Maze Rats and Knave—is currently running an RPG Playstyles Survey. I took…
RPG a Day 2026 – Day 33: After-Action Report
I meant to write this post yesterday, but then real life got in my way. A combination of illness, going to the physician to…
Recommendation Saturday: Vampire Edition (With some WoD sprinkled in!)
Quick note: This is something I do every Saturday on my Facebook Page, Sunglar’s Musings. Since I know not everyone is on Facebook and…
About Me: Tabletop RPG
An admission, dear readers: I had no idea who Awkward GM Corbin was until I started writing this post. Now I’ve discovered his YouTube…
Knights of the Celestial Canticle – The Indomitable Order: Rules for the Original Alternity Game
Let me start by saying that I blame Michael (aka the Stargazer) for this! He recently started writing about the original Alternity game here…
May 4th Be With Your Gaming!
It’s May 4th, Star Wars Day! “May 4th be with you” and all that. Today, I wanted to reminisce about Star Wars TTRPG gaming…
70s Sword & Sorcery Comics Inspiration: Discovering Dagar the Invincible
Just when I thought I had uncovered all the hidden gems from my recent deep dive into 70s sword-and-sorcery comics, I stumbled across another…
About being in over one’s head as a GM
The AI-generated image I used to illustrate this post is pretty much the feeling I am in all the time. Since I started running…
40 Years a Gamer: The Artists Who Inspired Me – The Proto-History
After looking at two artists I discovered in the early 90s—between what I had termed the Early-Years and the Middle-Years—let’s travel back to the…
40 Years a Gamer: The Comic Books That Inspired My Worlds
Back in July 2010, I wrote a post right here on Stargazer’s World about how comic books were a parallel passion of mine and…
40 Years a Gamer: A Time of Change (2017 to 2026)
We’re here, on the final installment of the retrospective of my past 40 years as a gamer. It will not be the last post…
The Musical GM!
It may surprise you, or perhaps horrify you, that I am a massive fan of musical theater. I grew up listening to musicals with…
40 Years a Gamer: A Decade of Community (2007 to 2017 – Part 2)
Welcome back to Part 2. In the previous post, I focused on how my life as a gamer blossomed over this decade, expanding from…
40 Years a Gamer: The Middle Years (1993 to 2006)
Welcome back to my 40-year retrospective as a gamer. If the early years were defined by beautiful chaos, 1993 was the pivot. At that…
40 Years a Gamer: The Early Years (1986 to 1992)
Welcome back to my 40 Years a Gamer retrospective. In the last post, I looked at the first game I played. But today, I…
The Long Road to the Far West (and Why It Was Worth It)
I just saw that Far West Redux is live on BackerKit, and it hit me with a wave of nostalgia. I was a backer of the…
40 Years a Gamer: The Classics I Missed (and the Ones I Didn’t)
Preamble: This post is closely tied to a post I wrote during RPG a Day this year, for day 21, Unexpected. It inspired me…