Happy New Year–Plans for 2019 and A Look Back
After taking an extensive break over the holidays I am back at work. This is also a good opportunity to give you an update what I have been up to lately. Without further...
January 7, 2019
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Raising Azazel (a FUDGE game)
So you may remember that I wrote at the start of November that I was going to do the NaGaDeMon challenge this year. I managed to write and publish my game, going by...
December 3, 2018
Blast from the Past: D&D Rules Cyclopedia from 1991
Over the past few years, when I was looking more closely into old-school D&D, the OSR, the various retro-clones etc. numerous people recommended the Rules Cyclopedia to me. It’s basically a compilation of...
November 20, 2018
Stargazer’s thoughts on the OSR
What is the OSR? If you ask several gamers you’ll likely get different answers. The acronym usually stands for old-school revolution or old-school renaissance. For some people the OSR is celebrating games and...
November 20, 2018
Realms of Terrinoth: Play Report
On Friday I finally had the chance to play in a Genesys game. My friend Sebastian ran an adventure set into the Realms of Terrinoth for us. Since it was meant as an...
November 19, 2018
Organizing my tabletop RPG library
I have a huge collection of roleplaying games. Aside from a lot of books which are scattered all over my house (we even have a bookshelf with roleplaying games in the bathroom next...
October 18, 2018
Fallout Wasteland Warfare Q&A with Designer James Sheahan
Stargazer’s World is first and foremost a roleplaying games blog, but that doesn’t mean we can’t cover board or tabletop miniature games from time to time. One game I am very excited about...
September 3, 2018
Don’t ask what the GM can do for you
This post was first published in February 2013 on this very blog. … ask what you can do for the GM. Or let it put me differently: it’s not the GM’s job alone...
August 20, 2018
Stargazer’s World 10th Anniversary
Yes, you’ve got that right, this very blog is now over 10 years old! When I started this blog in August 2008 I never would have thought that it would still be a...
August 10, 2018
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 1: What do you love about RPGs?
Here we go again! By now you know the drill… I disappear from the blog for a couple of months and the come August I’m back for #RPGaDay2018 Thankfully my fellow posters keep...
August 1, 2018
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
If you are active on Twitter you might have noticed that people have recently begun using the hashtag #DnDGate while posting about literally “gates in D&D” or how what their gateway into D&D...
June 22, 2018
Blogs vs. Social Media–From a RPG Blogger’s Perspective
Since I started this blog almost 10 years ago, a lot of fellow RPG bloggers have stopped blogging or moved their activities from their blog to social media. I am quite active on...
April 17, 2018
Review: Mutant Year Zero: Gen Lab Alpha
I was never very fond of anthropomorphic animals. That’s one of the reasons why I never actually played Gamma World. I just found it too childish. When my Mutant: Year Zero GM approached...
March 5, 2018
Pocket Gumshoe -Everything is Connected!
If you are familiar with Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency you will know the phrase “Everything is connected”. It generally highlights that everything in the universe is connected to everything else in the...
February 12, 2018
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Distress Call, a Starfinder adventure on Kickstarter, an interview with the author.
A couple of weeks ago I found about a new product in Kickstarter. With the success of Starfinder there are a slew of new third-party products available. Many push the system in new...
January 15, 2018