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“Blog of a new RPGer” interview
As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview...
The Importance of Dice
Dice are a very important part of most role playing games. Without out a good set of dice you would not be able to roll up your character, let alone slay a dragon....
The A-Team: A model for RPG campaigns?
Yesterday while watching an episode of The A-Team on TV, it struck me. Wouldn’t The A-Team make a perfect model for a RPG campaign? Let’s look at the basic premise, which is summed...
The State of the Game: Puerto Rico
Hello readers, I’m going to ask your indulgence for a moment because I intend to write about something very personal, gaming in Puerto Rico. Recently I’ve become interested in the wellbeing and growth...
What about the review? Revisiting Pathfinder…
For those of you that read my previous post about the Pathfinder RPG and are scratching your heads, no my player’s characters did not go up in level SO fast that I’m ready...
Annual GM’s Day Sale at RPGNow
As every year, OneBookShelf is celebrating the GM day by having a big sale. The products of participating companies will be 25% off between March 3rd and March 8th. So what are you...
Driveby Nerfing! The recent Wizards of the Coast update to D&D 4th edition…
A friend of mine actually got me writing this post after she shared the link to Wizards of the Coast announcement of their update to the D&D game… Mind you I don’t play...
Chronicles of the Four Dragons
Chronicles is one of the many game designs I have floating around on my hard disk. And like most of these abandoned projects, it’s totally untested, probably extremely unbalanced and unfinished. But it...
Ask The Readers: What’s your favorite genre?
We all know that the game that started it all in 1974 was firmly set into the fantasy genre and without doubt tolkienesque fantasy is still the favorite genre for most roleplayers. But...
Fearsome Floors
After your great welcome, I am really eager to get my first article out of the door. Therefore I have decided to give you a short review of one of my favorite light...
What about Pathfinder? A review…
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has been out for a while, since August 2009, and it’s made me a happy gamer so far! So if you want the short of it there you have...
Three more blogs you should be reading
In January I recommended three blogs you should be reading. Although that post didn’t get as many attention as I hoped, I still think it’s a good thing to point out interesting blogs...
Organizing a regulars’ table
Some time ago I was asked by an old friend if I would like to participate in a regulars’ table focused on the RPG hobby. He already had decided on a location and...
Poll: Should “Stargazer’s World” cover non-RPG topics as well?
I recently made sure that the RPG Bloggers Network only gets the RPG-related posts by creating a special RPG-only RSS feed. This change had become necessary because I wanted our new team member...
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...