Freebie: Free FATE
Today I stumbled upon a rather interesting document: Free FATE. Free FATE is a cut down and condensed version of the FATE system by Evil Hat Productions. From what I’ve seen so far,...
December 14, 2009
Freebies
Freebie: Mini Six
In the last months I have posted several times about West End Games’ D6 System and the OpenD6 project. A few months ago, Eric Gibson, owner of WEG released the cinematic RPG from...
December 8, 2009
[German RPGs] “Das Schwarze Auge” 1st Edition in English
Recently commenter Elias Eight requested an overview article about German RPGs. I really think this could be an interesting topic for a series of posts, so I started doing some research on the...
November 30, 2009
Chimera 2.0 – worth a look? (Updated)
Yesterday fellow RPG blogger Greywulf wrote about the new Chimera 2.0, a quick-to-play multi-genre RPG. After reading his post I headed to the Welsh Piper website and was quite shocked that they want...
November 25, 2009
Freebie: Daring Tales of the Sprawl Cyberpunk rules
In October Triple Ace Games released a free cyberpunk rules supplement for Savage Worlds that is intended to be used with their “Daring Tales of the Sprawls” adventure line. But from what I’ve...
November 24, 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
Ad Astra RPG on Scribd
Some months ago I created a new version of my Ad Astra Primer document. The new PDF is much more printer-friendly and includes some artwork created by my fellow RPG blogger Greywulf. Since...
November 2, 2009
The Fantasy Trip
D&D is not the only roleplaying game that evolved from miniature combat games. Steve Jackson’s GURPS actually is based on “The Fantasy Trip”, a roleplaying game that itself evolved from Metagaming’s Melee and...
October 6, 2009
Thrilling Noir Stories needs some more love
Some weeks ago I posted about “Thrilling Noir Stories”, my roleplaying game inspired by the film noir genre. The latest playtest version codenamed “Bogart” is already pretty good, but still needs more testing....
September 9, 2009
New Battletech RPG on the horizon
Some time ago, someone mentioned a Battletech RPG on Twitter, I believe it was my fellow RPG Blogger Chgowiz. But after the IMHO horrible Mechwarrior 3rd Edition, I had pretty much lost interest...
August 20, 2009
OpenD6 beta coming soon
It seems the beta test of the OpenD6 website is just a few days to weeks away. As the developer of the software that will power the OpenD6 site wrote on the WEG...
August 20, 2009
There’s more to the OGL than d20 (Paizo Edition)
Recently I wrote about the various games that have been released under the OGL and for which a system reference document is available. A few days ago, Paizo released its new Pathfinder RPG,...
August 17, 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
Give Dungeonslayers a 2nd chance
I am pretty sure some of you have already read about Dungeonslayers. In November of last year I first read about the project and wrote a short blog post about it. Then the...
August 10, 2009
Dungeonslayers updates
While I was busy with some other projects the Dungeonslayers community was working hard on several new supplements for my favorite “old-fashioned” RPG: Into the Breach This supplement adds optional rules to Dungeonslayer...
August 7, 2009
There’s more to OGL than d20 (Part 2)
This is the second and concluding (for now at least) episode of my series on OGL games. D&D 3rd Edition and the d20 System started it all, but a lot of other companies...
July 31, 2009
Reading Recommendation: “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming”
I have never played the early editions of D&D. Not even one of the retro-clones that are now freely available all over the internet. The oldest game I’ve ever played was the original...
July 30, 2009