A Study in Emerald
I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Yesterday I found out that Neil Gaiman has written a short story called “A Study...
July 7, 2009
Fluff/Inspiration
Creepy!
If you need inspiration for your next horror RPG adventure, check out this video: Some of you may actually have seen this already. According to this article the creature is living in the...
July 3, 2009
Agatha Heterodyne
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I tried to come up with a Savage Worlds version of Agatha Heterodyne, the heroine from Kaja and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius. Creating this character was actually...
June 30, 2009
Girl Genius!
This month’s blog carnival hosted by Mad Brew Labs is about Steampunk & Klokwerks. Steampunk is (as you probably know) one of my favourite genres and so it’s no surprise that I wanted...
June 29, 2009
Ad Astra: And so it begins… (Part 2)
The first part of my first Ad Astra adventure started a bit slow but that will soon change. The adventurers, new recruits of the Twilight Star, were ordered to investigate an archeological dig...
June 11, 2009
Ad Astra: And so it begins…
On last Saturday we started our Ad Astra campaign. My group consist of three players. Character #1 is a Gaian war hero and fighter pilot who disobeyed an order to save many lives....
June 4, 2009
My idea for a magipunk setting
Recently I had a chat with fellow blogger pinakidion over Twitter about my Asecia setting that I usually call “steamfantasy”. He came up with the name “magipunk” that more closely described how he saw...
June 4, 2009
Random musings
The last few days I spent some quality time with my girlfriend, played a couple of computer games I had been lying around for a long time and watched a couple of movies....
May 25, 2009
CSI: Sharn
On the German RPG blog “Limited Edition – Gedanken zum Rollenspiel” I discovered a very intersting post called “CSI: Sharn“. Sharn is one of the most iconic cities in Eberron and a great...
May 16, 2009
Ad Astra PDQ character creation
Last weekend my group of players and I decided to give the PDQ system a try. We’ll be using it to run my “Ad Astra” campaign. At first I thought about using the...
May 14, 2009
Ad Astra Primer
Today I created an “Ad Astra Primer”, a system-less introduction to my science fiction setting. The 13-page PDF includes all of my Ad Astra posts that I already posted here and a few...
May 7, 2009
Ad Astra: Twilight Star
Although I am still in the middle of my hiatus, I want to share some more information on my Ad Astra setting. “I want this Twilight Star scum killed on sight!” – General-Emperor...
May 7, 2009
Ad Astra: The Psitech League
Almost as powerful as one of the major nations of the Star Ocean is the Psitech League. Without Espers interstellar travel would be impossible and the League is the largest and most influential...
April 28, 2009
Ad Astra: The Akkathon Federation
Today I am finally returning to the world of “Ad Astra”. This time I will present to you the Akkathon Federation, a federation by name only that is more of a loose alliance...
April 22, 2009
Roleplaying in the world of “On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness”
“On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness” is an episodic adventure RPG for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 set into a pseudo-victorian world where lovecraftian horror, pulp adventures and the twisted humor of...
April 21, 2009
Ad Astra: The SpaceCorp Corporate State
As promised I will now share some information on the only corporate state in the Omega Centaury cluster: The SpaceCorp Corporate State (Quick Facts) Main World: Kobe, 4th planet of the Kansai System...
April 17, 2009
Ad Astra: The Tovenaar Empire
Any good SF or Space Opera setting features an evil empire. The scourge of the Star Ocean is definitely the Tovenaar Empire, a expansionistic, militaristic and faschistic nation ruled by the iron fist...
April 15, 2009