Where No Man Has Gone Before
These six words immediately conjure up one image: the starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701. It’s also the name of an excellent fan-made Star Trek roleplaying game based on Microlite20. Recently my Numenera campaign had...
These six words immediately conjure up one image: the starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701. It’s also the name of an excellent fan-made Star Trek roleplaying game based on Microlite20. Recently my Numenera campaign had...
I still remember the late 70s, early 80s when I first watched Star Trek on TV. My parents actually introduced me to the series, since they were fans themselves back then. Luckily for...
Ray Nolan and Phil Morris of AntiPaladin Games recently released a drastically revised and expanded version of their Open d6-based microlite, Mini Six. This new "Bare Bones Edition" comes in a beautiful, easy-to-use...
A recent post by fellow blogger and friend Daniel Pérez about his love for the Forgotten Realms got me thinking about my favorite campaign setting. The D&D Known World, better known as Mystara....
As you probably already know, “Warrior, Rogue & Mage” is a rules-light fantasy RPG created by me. The whole design process was under 24 hours, so I didn’t really bother with finding a...
Yesterday around 10pm local time I had an idea for a rule-light fantasy RPG with some old-school feel to it. The result is “Warrior, Rogue & Mage” a four-paged PDF containing complete rules...
On March 12th, Robin Stacey (aka Greywulf) announced that he had sold the rights to Microlite20, including microlite20.net, to Seth Drebitko. I quickly asked Robin to get me in touch with Seth, which...
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams on January 27th, 2010. There have been a couple small edits.
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams, my old RPG blog, on January 17th, 2010.
As I was gathering information on Searchers of the Unknown, I came across a comment that there was more floating about on the internet related to the game than just Swashbucklers of Mars....
So far in my exploration of microlite gaming, I have stuck with games that have taken a single particular approach — taking an existing game and attempting to condense the rules while still...
While I was bopping about the internet the other day, I tripped over a new Microlite20-based fantasy game called Dragoons20. Written by Randy Angle, the game document can be found at Hoppsbusch.com along...
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...
When you are a player, you probably don’t need much material to be able to participate in a roleplaying game. You need a pen, some paper and a couple of dice and you’re...
In the last years I have developed an aversion against games that are very rules-heavy. Although Pathfinder looks very sweet, I just can’t see myself any game based on the d20 System anymore...
The main problem when you start with Twitter is that you often don’t know who to follow. Aside from millions of spammers, internet marketers and people who just tweet about what they had...
It’s probably pretty obvious that I recently discovered the world of old-school gaming for me. In a way this new passion started with Dungeonslayers (which is actually not old-school at all) and later...