Star Wars Infinities – The Gathering Storm (Part 1 of 8)
The sale of Lucasfilms to Disney, the release of the Star Wars Edge of the Empire game by Fantasy Flight Games, the new Star Wars comic book series by Dark Horse, this all...
January 25, 2013
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What about the Midgard Campaign Setting? A review…
The new Midgard Campaign Setting by Kobold Press is out, and it is a great book. I can best summarize it this way… If you are a fan of the setting as it...
October 8, 2012
Character advancement the hard way
Back in the day, when we still played games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, character advancement was more than just picking new skills and talents, or improving the stats. Often the characters...
February 7, 2011
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Kobold adoptions going on right now! Free Kobold Quarterly #11…
Kobolds! Some of those little humanoids, that went from being the pesky scaled doglike bane of 1st level PCs to dragon blooded opponents of the modern adventurer, so renowned that they have a...
February 1, 2011
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From the Kobold’s Lair
Recently I have posted about Open Design’s latest patronage project: Midgard! And while pondering if I should become patron myself, the plan to do an interview with the three designers formed in my...
January 24, 2011
Ask The Readers: Fighting Gamer ADD
Currently I am having a bad case of gamer ADD again. I start a gaming project, scrap it, think about running a game using system A, then I switch to system B while...
January 18, 2011
Resolute, Adventurer & Genius has been released!
Blue Hex and Stargazer Games are proud to announce the release of Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, a roleplaying game of pulp action and adventure written by Andrew Modro and Jason Cabral, with visual...
January 17, 2011
Bridging the Gap
There is a lot of animosity between the old-school and new-school gaming groups. A lot of this I think is unnecessary. I mentioned briefly in my introduction that I am more of an...
January 10, 2011
Ask Your Readers: Christmas Gifts for Roleplayers
Christmas is approaching quite fast and people all around the globe are getting ready to purchase gifts for their loved ones. Roleplayers are usually no exception here and quite a few of them...
November 30, 2010
Let’s all put our minds together, RPMN Blog Carnival anybody? Social Media and its impact on RPGs!
Please note that this post first appeared on the Role Play Media Network. If you want to participate in the proposed Blog Carnival please link back to the original post. Thank you! Building...
November 18, 2010
Freebie: Arcane Heroes
Yesterday I finished my first play-through of Fable III, the latest game by Lionhead Studios. For some reason this game inspired me to create a 5-paged roleplaying game which uses a few elements...
November 1, 2010
The dice are falling!
RANT WARNING! The following post contains hyperbole, conjecture and unfounded opinions. Read at your own peril. These days there is a lot of speculation about the death of the pen and paper RPG...
October 28, 2010
Introducing the Stargazer’s World IRC chat channel!
Stargazer’s World now has a chat channel! This channel is accessible both by chat client (mIRC, Xchat, and so on). It is also accessible by a browser-based Java applet on the network’s website....
October 15, 2010
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Gaming fiction weal or woe?
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
October 11, 2010
RPG books on the iPad
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
October 6, 2010
Telling the story my way…
As a long time Game Master I like to try different ways of telling a story. My latest session serves as an example. The previous adventure had ended as the players set forth...
September 28, 2010
Essentials and me…
This weekend I made my one D&D Essentials purchase, the Dungeon Tiles Master Set. I briefly considered buying the Rules Compendium, even had my FLGS pull a copy for me, but when I...
September 27, 2010
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PAX Prime 2010 – Day 1
Hannah and I woke up early and eager on Friday so we could attend the PAX keynote address and meet up with our good friend Lyle. The Keynote was taking place at Benaroya...
September 20, 2010
Gamer Media, Parody and Negative Stereotypes
For at least the past year now, a close friend and gaming partner of mine has been trying to get me to watch The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising. I refused because of what...
September 17, 2010
PAX Prime 2010 – Day 0
My Fiancé Hannah, and I were woken up at 5AM on Thursday, September 2nd to the theme of Top Gun blaring from my iPhone that rested on the night stand. The night before...
September 16, 2010