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
Fluff/Inspiration
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
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
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