Let’s say that game prepping for games is an addiction. In my mind there are stages to that addiction. The first stage is getting sucked in, at this point, you are probably using prepared materials such as published adventures. From there, as the game prep addiction takes hold, you begin to make your own min-adventures, stories filled with combat using the monsters you get out of the books you buy.
Since D&D 4th Edition was released people have claimed it was WoW on paper. And while it’s probably true that D&D 4th Edition’s designers probably looked at MMOs for inspiration, I don’t think...
On earlier posts I have reviewed the two previous installments of the Advanced Feats series by Siegfried Trent, Secrets of the Alchemist and The Witch’s Brew, published by Open Design. This third outing,...
Yesterday I finished my first play-through of Fable III, the latest game by Lionhead Studios. For some reason this game inspired me to create a 5-paged roleplaying game which uses a few elements...
Some of you may still remember that I was working on another RPG project earlier this year, called Gears. In June I decided to put Gears on a backburner and focused more on...
Welcome back for part 2 of my blog posts on RPG product development, for those who may have missed part 1 and would like to catch up with the conversation so far click...
Yesterday we had our monthly RPG pub meeting in the Villa Konthor in Limburg. This time I introduced our regulars to WR&M, my rules-light fantasy roleplaying game. The five players had no trouble...
So you’ve thought about it for ages, you have this great idea to turn the game world that you have been lovingly creating with your pen and paper group for the past several...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Synapse Synapse is a new RPG written by Greg Christopher. It was just made available last week...
I recently announced that I was writing a Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition adventure. Progress on this project has been steady. Anytime I have a free block of time to myself I am...
After the flurry of work to get Warrior, Rogue & Mage ready, I had time to think about how the Wyrm system might be adapted to other genres. Mark Meredith is hard at...
The nonsensical title to this posts is actually a reference to my first ever attempt at designing a game. From that attempt I learned that designing a game is hard, a mixture of...
The first supplement for WR&M has been released earlier today. Colin Chapman, known for his post-apocalyptic roleplaying game Atomic Highway, has created more than 20 unique magical items that can be used in...
Wow, it has been just a few days since release but it seem I’ve hit a nerve with my free fantasy game “Warrior, Rogue & Mage”. Yesterday’s newsletter by DriveThruRPG lists WR&M as...
Just a few minutes ago I uploaded the revised Edition of WR&M to DriveThruRPG. There you can download it for free! I will make it available on other sites as well when I...
Today I want to tease you a bit more with updates from the upcoming revised edition of the Warrior, Rogue & Mage roleplaying game. Initially I wanted to use a cover featuring artwork...
For the last weeks I have been working hard to get the revised edition of WR&M done. The revised edition is currently 38-pages long, contains a lot of small fixes and clarifications and...
