NaGa DeMon: A question of character
Due to some unforeseen family crisis progress on my NaGa DeMon project is much slower than I anticipated. Luckily it hasn’t come to a total standstill yet. Today I actually managed to finish...
November 19, 2012
Game Design
NaGa DeMon: The Slipstream Drive
A couple of days ago I wrote down a few notes on how FTL travel and communication is supposed to work in my Galaxy Rising game. I haven’t decided yet, how fast you...
November 8, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The League
Today I want to share my notes about the League with you. The League The League of Free Worlds was formed shortly after discovery of the Slipstream drive and the first contact with...
November 7, 2012
NaGa DeMon: What’s In a Name?
One important part of any game design is coming up with fitting terms, names, et cetera. Alas I have to admit I am really bad at this aspect of game design. I have...
November 6, 2012
NaGa DeMon: The first step is always the hardest
Sometimes it’s really hard to come up with a good idea if you need one. For the last few days I’ve tried really hard to think about a cool setting for the game...
November 2, 2012
Ask The Readers: Have you played Arcane Heroes?
In November 2010 I released a 5-paged rules-light RPG called Arcane Heroes. In Arcane Heroes the player characters are members of ancient bloodlines during an industrial revolution. It uses a simple dice pool...
October 22, 2012
Running Games in the Perry Rhodan universe? Possible or not?
Perry Rhodan is definitely my favorite SF series. Even though it’s pretty unknown in the US it is the world’s largest SF series. It has been started in the 1960s by two German...
September 4, 2012
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The man behind the Stargazer! An interview with Michael Wolf…
I’ve been fortunate enough to be contributing for this blog for two and a half years now… How time flies! Through this time I have made many new friends, had the opportunity to...
August 9, 2012
Ask The Readers: Fancy dice? Yay or nay?
A lot of players shy away from certain games because they use “fancy” dice like Fudge dice, non-standard polyhedral dice, dice with funny symbols instead of regular numbers or something like that. In...
May 2, 2012
Crafting at the Tabletop
A lot of computer roleplaying games and especially MMOs often feature crafting. In games like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim or World of Warcraft players can craft a plethora of items from raw materials....
April 17, 2012
Tactical combat in WR&M (or any other Wyrm System game)
Earlier today Christopher Brind contacted me today and let me know about a cool ruleset for tactical games he has designed for WR&M. It’s modeled loosely after the system from the classic Games...
April 11, 2012
Starflight
Yesterday I mused about roleplaying in the SF genre and in the evening I remembered some of the computer games I enjoyed tremendously in my youth: the Starflight series and Star Control 2....
March 27, 2012
Ask the readers: Original alien races for your RPG?
If you read my post here in the blog regularly you’ll know I have been planning a sci-fi game for the longest time. I’ve written about it, even posted a possible campaign background. Whether...
March 14, 2012
Ask The Readers: Do RPGs necessarily need a unified core mechanic?
Back in the early days of roleplaying games there were often different roll mechanics for the various aspects of the game. In some games you had to roll with a d20 and get...
March 2, 2012
Strategy game meets RPG
On the weekend I downloaded a game called “Rebuild” onto my iPad. In this game you reclaim a city one square at a time after a zombie apocalypse. The game has a few...
February 13, 2012
Dinner with Gamers
Recently I sat down for dinner with friends at the Golden Place Buffet in Guaynabo. They happen to be gamers, most of them being the regular players in my campaign. There were a...
January 16, 2012
NaGa DeMon: I surrender!
As I’ve written last week, I doubt I will get my NaGa DeMon project done. Today is November 28th and Astronauts is far from being playable. But since it’s a very interesting project...
November 28, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #2
My project is progressing much slower than I anticipated. But I actually made some progress and slowly, very slowly the crunch part of the game is coming together. Astronauts will use a simple...
November 14, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #1
On Friday I announced my project for this year’s NaGa DeMon. It will be a near future hard science fiction roleplaying game called Astronauts. And after making that announcement I realized two things:...
November 7, 2011
Astronauts
I finally had an idea for what I want to work on for NaGa DeMon! Astronauts will be a hard sf roleplaying game set into a near future which focuses on human space...
November 4, 2011