Ad Astra: The SpaceCorp Corporate State
As promised I will now share some information on the only corporate state in the Omega Centaury cluster: The SpaceCorp Corporate State (Quick Facts)…
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Ad Astra: The Tovenaar Empire
Any good SF or Space Opera setting features an evil empire. The scourge of the Star Ocean is definitely the Tovenaar Empire, a expansionistic,…
Ad Astra: The Gaian Republic
Welcome to the next installment in my “Ad Astra” series. Today I provide you with some details on the Gaian Republic: The Gaian Republic…
Ad Astra: Major Factions of the Omega Centauri Cluster
Last time, you learned how thing came to pass, now I want to give you some details on one the major factions of the…
Ad Astra!
For the last weeks I have been working on a science-fiction campaign setting that I call “Ad Astra!”. I have finally finished writing down…
Guest post: Five Intelligent Magic Items for the Connoisseur
Over on my own blog, Exchange of Realities, I’ve been working on advice for creation, personality, interaction and plot hazards of intelligent magic items. But it can be hard…
Theseus Class Medium Starfighter
As I mentioned before I am working on a SF campaign setting for d6 Space. One of the things my players requested were space…
Dungeoncraft Links
I am currently working on transferring all of my saved bookmarks to delicious and tagging them properly. While doing so I stumbled upon two…
Converting videogames to the gaming table
Video games can be great sources for inspiration. Everyone who played games like the classic Ultima series, the Elder Scroll series, the Fallout series,…
D&D 4th Edition without miniatures
When D&D 4th Edition was new, one of the first complaints was that it turned D&D into a miniature game. I disagreed and I…
Firearms for Dungeonslayers
While the Dungeonslayers translation entered the edit and layout phase I worked on a second project for the free, old-fashioned roleplaying game: firearms! I started…
Dungeoncraft: New Races for Asecia
The last time I wrote about Asecia I planned to use the FATE rules and I decided against non-human races. But in the end…
Dungeoncraft: Ad Astra #2
In my last Dungeoncraft post I promised some details on the history of the “Ad Astra!” universe. My initial idea was to present my…
Dungeoncraft: Ad Astra!
Although Asecia is still on hiatus, my Dungeoncraft column is back. And this time we venture into the great void aka outer space. I…
Dungeoncraft: Asecia reboot
During the last few months I have been working on a campaign setting called “Asecia”. The development of this world has been documented in…
Dungeoncraft: The Future of Asecia
In the last few weeks I wrote about my campaign world Asecia, its people, nations, history, magic, religion, secrets and even provided you with…
Dungeoncraft: Winds Of Change
The world of Asecia is a world constantly in the flux. That’s true in several ways. The campaign I am planning will start with…
D&D 4th Edition Firearms
There has always been D&D campaign settings that featured firearms, even the Forgotten Realms had their share of boomsticks with the gnomish smokepowder weapons.…
Dungeoncraft: Religion on Asecia
In most medieval-fantasy campaigns the gods are very real, they grant spells to their most devout followers and they sometimes even walk the earth.…
Dungeoncraft: Secrets!
Secrets are what makes a campaign setting more interesting and deep. The old man sitting on the bench under the big tree in the…