Blogging October 12, 2011 • 2 min read Puerto Rico Role Players GM Workshop I often write about these things after the fact… maybe I should write about them before and more people will find out about it.…
Fluff/Inspiration September 9, 2011 • 1 min read Lazy Friday Video Post: Aurora A couple of days ago Ken Walton, one of the creators of the upcoming “Abney Park’s Airship Pirates”, posted a link to this short…
Call of Cthulhu August 29, 2011 • 3 min read The Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos In December 2008 I first read about Charles Stross’ short story “A Colder War”. Imagine an alternative timeline where the cold war ends in…
Ask The Readers July 26, 2011 • 2 min read Starblazer Adventures meets the Mass Effect Universe Some time ago I wrote about my plans to run a Starblazer Adventures game. As always things didn’t went as planned and I had…
Fluff/Inspiration June 28, 2011 • 6 min read Describing the Indescribable For many creative people, a blank space is an inspiration, a key to unlock ideas. These people can take an empty page or fresh…
Advice June 15, 2011 • 1 min read Fun with Photofunia On the German RPG Blog “Cthulhu’s Ruf” I read about Photofunia, a service that allows you to apply all kinds of interesting effects onto…
Ask The Readers June 14, 2011 • 6 min read 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…
FATE June 7, 2011 • 16 min read Crazy Campaign Chronicles: Childhood toys… Introductory note: I wrote a previous post on this series about those crazy ideas one gets for campaigns and never gets to plays. This…
Fluff/Inspiration June 1, 2011 • 4 min read Mass Effect and Ashen Stars – Could this work? From time to time I get the urge to run a SF campaign using the setting presented in the Mass Effect series of computer/video…
Call of Cthulhu May 31, 2011 • 2 min read The Klarkash-Ton Cycle I usually don’t talk about non-RPG books here on Stargazer’s World, but I don’t think it will hurt when I do from time to…
Ask The Readers May 23, 2011 • 6 min read 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…
Advice May 18, 2011 • 5 min read 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…
Fluff/Inspiration May 11, 2011 • 9 min read “You are all travelling in a Stagecoach…” Weird West pre-gens Recently Michael posted about the new game by Robertson Games Weird West. I have never run a western game, and only played on a…
Ask The Readers May 9, 2011 • 2 min read 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.…
Advice April 13, 2011 • 9 min read Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 2 Now that I’ve started writing about this I can’t stop. Here is the thing, on a previous post I was musing about the “campaign…
Advice April 11, 2011 • 5 min read Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 1 Fellow poster, and all around nice guy, Shinobicow (who also has a really cool nick, but I digress) wrote an excellent series of posts…
D&D4e April 4, 2011 • 8 min read Inner Sea World Guide: First impressions … This past Saturday I went down to my FLGS and got my hands on the new Pathfinder RPG campaign setting, the Inner Sea World…
Advice March 31, 2011 • 4 min read A font by any other name… I don’t know about you, but I love collecting them. Ever since I got my first word processor I cherished the possibility of changing…
Advice March 30, 2011 • 5 min read Aspects of War Whether the Player Characters in your campaign stand for good or battle for evil, one thing will always be true. The ability to tell…
Ask The Readers March 28, 2011 • 4 min read 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…