I suck at running campaigns
Recently I looked back at my gaming career and I realized that my campaigns usually end up being a mess. More often then not, there’s no real ending to the campaign and the...
June 25, 2015
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Deus Ex Machina
Next month I’ll be running two games at a local con. Initially I planned to run D&D 5th Edition and perhaps even Traveller, but recently I reconsidered. For a con game which also...
March 4, 2015
Musings of a D&D 5th Edition DM
Last year I started playing D&D 5th Edition with one of my regular groups. Actually we just created characters and did a short introductory adventure set into a campaign setting of my own...
February 16, 2015
Hero Quest anyone?
In my Happy New Year post I’ve mentioned Hero Quest 2nd Edition by Robin Laws. It’s one of the games I’ve bought ages ago, but which I never read thoroughly nor played it....
January 5, 2015
Am I getting old or just lazy? – 2014 Edition
In 2009 I already wrote about my aversion of rules-heavy games. In these last 5 years I noticed that I have become even more picky when it comes to rules systems. The trend...
November 17, 2014
Generic RPGs: Do we really need those?
Yes, the caption is meant to be controversial. If it works for big media, why not for me? But in all seriousness, what is the big deal with generic rules systems like GURPS,...
November 11, 2014
When You Realize that You’re the Baddy
I have always been interested in history and I always found it quite intriguing to play in historic roleplaying games. So it was of course no surprise that I backed Achtung! Cthulhu which...
October 9, 2014
I’ve Got Traveller On My Mind
For years I wanted to run a proper SciFi game. I’ve made plans for Stars Without Number, but the project never made it to the game table. I tried to write a complete...
October 8, 2014
Traveller without Aliens?
I am not sure if I already wrote on the blog about it, but I have been playing Traveller for several months now. Initially my GM wanted to run a face-to-face game but...
October 2, 2014
Ask The Readers: Shall I Give Shadowrun 5th Edition Another Chance?
Recently I had the chance to play in a Shadowrun 3rd Edition game. We initially planned to play something else, but one of the players couldn’t make it, so we decided to play...
July 14, 2014
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Fantasy Fridays! Ask the readers, Pathfinder RPG House Rules?
Hello readers! Sorry for another skipped week RL and all that. I’m very interested in continuing my contributions to the blog with at least one post a week. Let’s do this… You’ll notice...
July 4, 2014
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Free RPG Day Debriefing
This past weekend, June 21st to be exact, I participated of Free RPG Day for the very first time. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time stores in Puerto...
June 24, 2014
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
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