Gears: Skills
This time I want to talk about skills in Gears. In my last post about Gears I explained how the core mechanic works. Usually you roll 3d6 (add some modifiers) and compare the...
February 22, 2010
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Castlemolds Review
Ever since I started playing Dungeons & Dragons fourth edition early last year I have read all I can about the game to try and make the gaming experience as fun and enjoyable...
February 22, 2010
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Weekend Doubleshot Review
So far in my exploration of microlite gaming, I have stuck with games that have taken a single particular approach — taking an existing game and attempting to condense the rules while still...
February 21, 2010
Dragoons20 Review
While I was bopping about the internet the other day, I tripped over a new Microlite20-based fantasy game called Dragoons20. Written by Randy Angle, the game document can be found at Hoppsbusch.com along...
February 19, 2010
Gears: the core mechanic
I promised you more posts about my upcoming Gears roleplaying game system and this time I want to share some thoughts on the core mechanic. When I started the project I was still...
February 17, 2010
Five Hundred!
Wow! Who would have guessed that I hit the 500 posts milestone that fast. It was in November 2009 when Stargazer’s World reached it’s 400th post. I don’t think I ever had a...
February 16, 2010
Review: CthulhuTech Damnation View
Recently I was given the opportunity to review Damnation View (RPGNow Affiliate Link), the first storybook for CthulhuTech. Some of you may remember that I reviewed the CthulhuTech core rulebook in October 2008....
February 15, 2010
Preview: Kingdom Builder by Chaotic Shiny Productions
I love all kind of random generators, especially random name generators, since I usually have a hard time coming up with cool-sounding character names. When some time ago Hannah Lipsky of Chaotic Shiny...
February 15, 2010
Dragon Age unboxing
This afternoon the postman brought me the Dragon Age boxed set I’ve been waiting for. I am still fighting a nasty cold, so it will probably take a few days before I can...
February 12, 2010
CthulhuTech Quickstart
Finally the guys from WildFire have released a quickstart PDF of their CthulhuTech game. I own the hardcover book for some time now, and I already wrote a review last year, but alas...
February 10, 2010
Le jeu de rôle à l’ancienne
While I was busy working on my own RPG project, the Dungeonslayers community finally released the French version of the old-fashioned roleplaying game from Germany. Here’s a quote from the official site: Almost...
February 9, 2010
Stargazer’s World presents Gears
One of the things I always wanted to accomplish was to write a complete roleplaying game system, a set of rules of my own design. Over the last years I repeatedly made attempts...
February 9, 2010
Review: Wushu Open
Wushu Open is a short, free and rules-lite roleplaying game created with the Wuxia genre of fiction in mind, although it can be used in any genre. Wushu’s author Daniel Bayn also offers...
February 8, 2010
Reminder: One Page Dungeon Contest 2010 ends on March 1st!
Just this morning I had a chat with Alex Schröder, who is organizing this year’s One Page Dungeon Contest. He reminded me that the submission deadline is March 1st, 0:00 GMT. So, if...
February 5, 2010
Twitter Trouble!
This post has nothing to with roleplaying games, but with something happening on Twitter right now. Please don’t stop reading, because I need your help! Some hours ago some person started tweeting to...
February 4, 2010