Crimefighters!
Did you know that TSR released a 22-page pulp RPG in Dragon magazine #42 back in 1981? Back in 1981 I didn’t even know what TSR was and I think I read my...
June 15, 2009
Freebies
Ad Astra character sheet
Yesterday we finally started my Ad Astra campaign. In order to make things easier for my players and me, I created a couple of record sheets for characters and space ships. Today I...
May 31, 2009
Bill Coffin’s Septimus will be WEG’s first big release under the OpenD6 banner!
West End Games and Bill Coffin’s Septimus are not dead after all! Recently Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that the secret project, he’s been working on for quite some...
May 19, 2009
The Horror of Leatherbury House
Following into the footsteps of Robertson Games I decided to share my submission to the One-Page Dungeon Contest with you. At first I didn’t want to participate. I haven’t created any adventure before...
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
Two Worlds RPG for free
Two Worlds is an action RPG for PC and Xbox 360. In 2007 RPGObjects created a pen&paper roleplaying game based on that game that was included in the Collector’s Edition of the game....
April 20, 2009
Dungeonslayers: GM shield
There’s now an official Dungeonslayers gamemaster screen called a GM shield (I think there are not enough rules for a proper screen). Here’s the blurb from the official site: Behold the Dungeonslayers gamemaster...
April 16, 2009
Basic Roleplaying Quickstart PDF
One of the oldest RPG systems in existence is Chaosium‘s Basic Roleplaying System that powered games like Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest or Stormbringer. Last year Chaosium finally released a generic BRP rulebook that...
April 14, 2009
Get Exalted 2nd Edition for free!
Obviously White Wolf recognizes the opportunity and celebrates their devotion to PDF products by giving away the Exalted 2nd Edition rulebook for free! In light of recent announcements, some fans have expressed concern over...
April 8, 2009
New adventure for Dungeonslayers
Yesterday a new one-paged mini-adventure called “The Brigands of Lyrkenfenn” has been released. It’s the first of a series of short adventures that can be used for one-shot adventures or as part of an...
March 26, 2009
Vaede Mecum of Magic released for free
Today West End Games has released Vaede Mecum of Magic (aka d6 Magic) for free. It’s a supplement for d6 Fantasy and d6 Adventure that expands on the Magic system presented in those...
March 26, 2009
“Game over, man”
That’s probably one of the most well known quotes from the movie Aliens, one of my personal favorite SF movies. The sequel of the SF-horror-classic “Alien” featured a group of colonial marines who...
March 20, 2009
BRP, GORE and RQ
A what and a what and a what? BRP is the Basic Roleplaying game I wrote about yesterday, RQ is RuneQuest (one of the games which used an early version of BRP and...
March 19, 2009
Dungeonslayers: The Thieves of Lyrkenfenn
Today one of the new members of the english Dungeonslayers community called ur_hekau has posted an translation of the first Dungeon2Go adventure. You still need the german PDF to run the adventure and...
March 13, 2009
“Feuerwerk” released
Today the second supplement for Dungeonslayers has been released. “Feuerwerk” is a 6-page PDF which include rules for firearms, bombs, cannons, firearms accessories and even a new class of spellcaster, the Arcane Pistoleer....
March 12, 2009
Review: Microlite20 purest essence
I am always interested in roleplaying games I haven’t played before and especially when they are free. One of the free roleplaying games that grabbed my attention recently was Microlite20. What is Microlite20?...
March 5, 2009
Dungeonslayers: The deed is done!
Today the english edition of Dungeonslayers was finally released! Only 22 days ago, a small party of fearless adventurers including Michael “Stargazer” Wolf, Fabian “Sir Slayalot” Maruschat and Moritz “Glngnfz” Mehlem started out...
March 4, 2009
Sneak peek: Dungeonslayers character sheet
The translation of the free, old-fashioned roleplaying game Dungeonslayers is finally nearing completion. I’ve finished translating the rules yesterday and the editing and layout process will probably done this week. An english site...
February 25, 2009