The Mythos Is Everywhere
When Michael announced he wanted to do a “Mythos Week”, I initially didn’t have any idea what I could contribute to such an effort. The chilling answer — that you can find the...
April 28, 2010
Fluff/Inspiration
H.P. Lovecraft and his works
This week at Stargazer’s World is dedicated to gaming inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s works. So, who was this H.P. Lovecraft anyway? Lovecraft’s life Howard Philips Lovecraft was born August 20, 1890 in Providence,...
April 26, 2010
Cataclysm
This is a rerun, it was originally posted on August 28th, 2009. From Wikipedia: The cataclysm is the Greek expression for the Deluge, from the Greek kataklysmos, to ‘wash down’ (kluzein “wash” +...
April 19, 2010
Hacking in Cyberpunk games
As I’ve written two weeks ago I am thinking about developing a Cyberpunk game powered by my Gears system. But there’s one thing that I don’t like about most Cyberpunk games: Hacking. Usually...
April 13, 2010
Traveling for Inspiration
Travels, short and long, have often inspired me, both as topics for writing fiction (something I enjoy and don’t do enough of) and gaming. Over the last fourteen years I’ve traveled all across...
March 29, 2010
D&D before I even knew what role-playing was!
I may go on an on about how long I’ve been playing but it’s not empty boasting, I actually played D&D before ever picking up any polyhedral dice! I don’t know how many...
March 25, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen’s Duel
I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers. The movie is not only extremely...
March 12, 2010
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...
March 8, 2010
Videogames that should be turned into pen & paper RPGs
Recently the extremely successful Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware was brought to the gaming table by Green Ronin Publishing. But the Dragon Age RPG is much more than just a simple conversion of...
February 1, 2010
Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite rock band?
As a lot of ideas these days, the idea to this post developed on Twitter. Zachary from RPG Blog 2 tweeted about being interested to find out more about gamers’ music tastes. The...
January 19, 2010
Cyberpunk!
Inspired by Triple Ace Games’ cyberpunk rules I would love to write a Cyberpunk setting of my own, but alas I can’t decide what kind of setting I would prefer. First off, there’s...
November 26, 2009
Roleplaying in the Dune universe
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my favorite SF books. I’ve read several of the sequels but in my opinion the first book was the best. My father owned a hardcover version of...
November 23, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: The Whisperer in Darkness
Recently I learned about the upcoming “The Whisperer in Darkness” movie. It’s the second adaption of a H.P. Lovecraft story by the people who brought us the awesome “Call of Cthulhu” silent movie....
October 2, 2009
THEY are out there!
I was a skeptic, a non-believer until I bought Monte Cook’s latest book “The Skeptic’s Guide To Conspiracies”. At first I was enraged to see that they sold me an obviously used book....
September 29, 2009
Adventure Games as inspiration for RPG campaigns
There’s an interesting post about using the classic Lucasarts adventure game “Full Throttle” into a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign over at the German CP2020 blog. If you speak German or aren’t afraid to use...
August 31, 2009
Automata
A lot of RPG fans love Penny Arcade and I am no exception. Recently the first chapter of “Automata” has been completed. What I want to share with you today is a video...
August 15, 2009
Work in progress
Although I am more or less in “vacation-mode” and being lazy most of the time, I started working on a new campaign project. I won’t spill the beans right now, but I wanted...
August 12, 2009