Yesterday Christian Kennig released another one-page dungeon for his free, old-fashioned roleplaying game Dungeonslayers. Here’s the blurb from the official site: “Get up!” – the elf came slowly to. What’s going on? What...
It seems Dungeonslayers can’t be stopped! Just a few weeks ago I wrote about the French version and just yesterday an Italian publisher has released an Italian translation. This is actually the first...
The Dungeonslayers community is still hard working to provide fans all around the world with new one-page adventures. Recently a team of five dedicated fans has translated Christian Kennig’s “Night of the Damned”...
This morning, Andrew Modro and I where talking about the old Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Quickstart rules on #rpmn. In his opinion the mechanics used in these old quickstart games are even better...
In my opinion the biggest hurdle for any aspiring game designer is artwork. Especially if you plan to release a game for free you usually have no budget for paying artists. One solution...
Recently Rob Lang of the Free RPG Blog asked me if I knew “1w6 – Ein Würfel System” (1d6 – One Die System). I had to admit that I’ve heard of it before,...
Recently Christian Kennig released another one-page dungeon for his Dungeonslayers game: “The Queen of Blackriver” is the third adventure in the “Dungeon-2-Go” series and was written by Bob Bretz. Please note, that the...
Some days ago the 2nd “Dungeon-2-Go” for the Dungeonslayers RPG has been released. While the German version had been available for some time now, Andreas Bösche, Sana D. and Moritz Mehlem finished the...
This may be old news to some of my readers, but I just learned about the Quickstart Rules for Chill 3rd Edition. I’ve played Chill a few years back (I think it was...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
