Putting my (hypothetical) money where my mouth is!
It’s an old adage (and yes I do love that word, I’ve used it often enough) that it’s not the system; it’s the Game Master that makes the role playing experience enjoyable. As...
June 14, 2011
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Follow up Castles & Crusades Unboxing (Now with Moving Pictures!)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgyh6I35rE] The above video and this post are a follow up to a post I wrote titled: Castles & Crusades Unboxing. It was particularly about the shipping and the conditions of...
June 13, 2011
“Spanish, Spanish, Spanish saving throw, Spanish”: Role-Playing in different languages
Recently I had a tweet exchange with Shaun and Michael about which language we role-played in, and Shaun wrote an excellent post about languages in RPG games here in the blog last week....
June 6, 2011
My thoughts on PDF pricing and print + PDF bundles
In Youseph’s recent unboxing post the subject of PDF pricing came up again. He criticized that Troll Lord Games doesn’t provide free (or at least cheap) PDFs with the purchase of the hardbound...
June 2, 2011
Ask The Readers: What is your favorite “noir” RPG?
Last weekend I have played L.A. Noire the latest video game created by Rockstar Games and Team Bondi. The game tells the story of LAPD detective and WW2 hero Cole Phelps. It’s set...
May 25, 2011
How we buy games… A retrospective!
This week I purchased some digital RPG supplements in PDF, pre-ordered a book, and I got home today (Saturday) from the Puerto Rico Comic Con (shameless plug) to find a box from Amazon...
May 23, 2011
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Being a better Game Master: Credit where credit is due!
Being a Dungeon Master, Game Master, Storyteller, Referee, call it what you may, is not an easy task. It requires a lot in terms of creativity, passion, preparation, but it’s not the thankless...
May 18, 2011
Ask The Readers: Who ya gonna call?
Recently I have rewatched one of my favorite films: Ghostbusters! Even though the movie is *gasp* 27 years old it has aged surprisingly well. While some of the effects may look a bit...
May 9, 2011
Ask the readers: Does not play well with others…
Over in the Paizo Blog I’ve been reading with some interest their proposed changes to the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program. I have never participated on such programs. When I began role playing I was...
April 7, 2011
Minigames in roleplaying games
Recently I have started playing Sid Meier’s Pirates! again. Pirates! is a single-player, open world game set into the Caribbean during the late 16th and early to late 17th century. You play a...
April 5, 2011
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Ask the readers: Filing off the serial numbers
If you follow me on twitter (@sunglar) or read my recent posts about Breaking the D20 Paradigm you may know I am struggling to find a system for a future sci-fi game (pun...
March 28, 2011
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Breaking the d20 Paradigm
“Dear d20 System, we’ve had a good run you and me… No, no relax, this is NOT that conversation. I am not breaking up with you! I just think we should see other...
March 22, 2011
Lazy Friday Video Post: “She don’t like Firefly!”
It has been quite some time since the last “Lazy Friday Video Post”, but I thought I should resurrect this tradition. This week’s video is not really RPG-related but I know that a...
March 18, 2011
Crazy Campaign Chronicles: Defenders of the Earth Redux or a Very Pulpy Future!
Introductory note: As Game Master I constantly get ideas for new campaigns. I take notes and file them away on the hopes of one day retaking them. But since I don’t role-play 24/7...
March 2, 2011
Fighting the good fight…
I’ve written about Puerto Rico Role Players before, many times, and probably will some more. This is one such instance, so humor me if you please (if not there are some excellent posts...
February 22, 2011
Would a near-future science-based space exploration roleplaying game work?
Yesterday I stumbled upon this post at the famous BoingBoing blog which featured two pieces of awesome NASA artistic renderings of possible future space missions. I love science and space exploration. Even as...
February 16, 2011
Best of Stargazer’s World
The 1000th post at Stargazer’s World is approaching fast. A couple of months back I had the idea to release something special when this blog hits a thousand posts. The idea is to...
February 9, 2011