Airplanes, Mecha, Space Ships–Oh My!
In my post about Elite Dangerous a reader names Gordon pointed out that there will be a roleplaying game based on the computer game. At first this sounds like an awesome idea, but...
June 10, 2014
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Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XVIII
As I mentioned two weeks ago, we are on the last leg of the Wanderers of the Outlands material (even if I wrote another piece of fiction for my players this week). Last...
May 16, 2014
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Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XVI
And we are very close to the end… I’ve created a LOT of material for my campaign, but most of what’s ready and I’m sharing with my players has already been posted in...
May 2, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XIV
Another Friday, another post in the Sci-Fi Fridays! series, I’m currently sharing the background I’ve written for my Savage Worlds sci-fi campaign. You’ve all been seeing a lot of these materials before my...
April 18, 2014
Ask The Readers: What are you running with Fate Accelerated?
At first I want to apologize for not having posted in a while. At first I was busy with preparations for our German Free RPG Day convention and then my mental health issues...
April 10, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part X
This is the 10th post on my weekly series detailing my new Savage Worlds sci-fi campaign. So far it’s been mostly fluff, except for the post on Aliens and on House Rules. This...
March 21, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part VI
Thanks for coming back dear reader. Here is part 6 of the continuing series where I share can’t the background and rules for my upcoming Savage Worlds sci-fi campaign. This one is a...
February 21, 2014
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Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part IV
Welcome back to another instalment of my current post series Sci-Fi Fridays. For the uninitiated, I’m presenting the background materials for my upcoming Savage Worlds campaign which I’ll be running for my gaming...
February 7, 2014
I’ve got RIFTS on my mind… Let’s talk about characters
I blame two men for my recent obsession with RIFTS and neither of them is Kevin Siembieda. The fault is squarely on Christopher Helton and Luis Miranda. Let’s start with the most recent...
January 15, 2014
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Good bye 2013… Hello 2014!
Year in review posts, they’ve been done before… And I’ll do one gain! 2013 was a great year for me! I finished my MA in Education accomplishing an important personal goal. It did...
January 13, 2014
Ask The Readers: Shadowrun WaRPed?
Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about Shadowrun. A while back my players asked me to run Shadowrun for them, and since then I’ve looked into various editions...
December 2, 2013
Real World Gadget, Gaming Possibilities
I recently got a little gadget I was looking forward to, the Google Chromecast. It’s a handy little widget that allows you to stream video and images via WiFi from your computer, Android...
November 26, 2013
Hero System Bundle
Yesterday I picked up the latest Bundle of Holding containing 6 Hero System products, namely Champions Complete, The Hero System Equipment Guide, the Hero System Resource Kit, Fantasy Hero, Pulp Hero, and Star...
November 13, 2013
Ask the Readers: What do you like about this blog?
Stargazer’s World is now over five years old and our team has written way over thousand blog posts to date. In the last few years we’ve covered several different game systems, posted dozens...
October 23, 2013
Fudging Battletech
While I am preparing the XCOM game I have been writing about, I am already thinking about other one-shots/mini-campaigns I could run in the future. One of the games I wanted to run...
October 22, 2013
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
I am currently working on a UFO conspiracy RPG one-shot inspired by TV series like X-Files and Dark Skies and computer games like the XCOM series (including The Bureau). One of the premises...
October 22, 2013
IRC anyone?
Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for text-based messaging harking back to the early days of the internet. Nowadays it’s mostly forgotten. But interestingly enough the RPG scene is quite active on IRC....
October 15, 2013