The RPG Bloggers Network won’t die …
… unless we let it die. The former RPGBN board members have announced today that they step down from their posts after there was…
✦ Category: Just my two cents
Is there still hope for Open D6?
A long time ago Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that he plans to turn the D6 System into an open…
Iron Kingdoms RPG source books now available in PDF
When I first read about this, I thought “Hell, it’s about time!”. The Iron Kingdoms campaign setting is still one of my favorite setting,…
Don’t take yourself too seriously!
The ROLPUNK manifesto has – at least in my humble opinion – an underlying message: don’t take yourself to seriously, and remember it’s just…
Fantasy Craft
It all started with the Fantasy Craft preview PDF. While I was paging through it, my girlfriend was sitting next to me, and when…
WHFRP 3rd Edition Seminar by Jay Little
Yesterday I learned about this video seminar and headed over to the FFG site to watch it. It consists of five videos each about…
Follow-up on my Warhammer FRP 3rd Edition rant
I have to admit that in my last post about that topic I was really ranting and raving. The original WHFRP was probably the…
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! WTF?
Fantasy Flight Games will release a new version of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game at GenCon this year. WHFRP was one of the first…
Give Dungeonslayers a 2nd chance
I am pretty sure some of you have already read about Dungeonslayers. In November of last year I first read about the project and…
To Savage or Not to Savage
When you convert an existing campaign setting or game to the Savage Worlds rules you have “savaged” the setting. But there’s one important question:…
“The hobby is far from being dead!”
This time, the quote is by me. If you ask me, all those doomsayers that think the pen & paper roleplaying hobby will vanish…
“Pen & paper games will be forgotten in ten years”
No, that line is not from me, but from game designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Games Workshop and creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.…
I voted in the ENnies!
I voted in this year’s ENnie Awards! And so should you! You can cast your votes here. The polls close at midnight, August 1st,…
The ENnies and Quick-Start Rules
Yesterday’s post and similar posts on other blogs started quite a discussion in the RPG blogosphere. It even lead to the start of a…
My thoughts on the 2009 ENnie Award Nominations
The 2009 ENnie Award Nominations are live and of course everyone checks out the lists, interested to find out if his favorite game/setting/website/podcast/etc. was…
OpenD6 logo revealed
Recently the web developer who is working for Eric Gibson to create the OpenD6 website revealed not only the OpenD6 logo but also posted…
When your campaign has jumped the shark
Sometimes I get the feeling that my love for epic stories has got the best of me. And usually when I push my roleplaying…
Good advice for all RPG bloggers
Yesterday fellow blogger Trask posted an article with advice for aspiring RPG bloggers over at Living Dice. Even if you are already a RPG…
Dungeons & Dragons Online goes free to play
Ok, in my first post I told everyone that this blog is about pen & paper RPGs and not MMORPGs or even LARP. But…
When the World of Darkness died …
A couple of years back I played in a lot of World of Darkness games. Everything started with “Vampire – The Masquerade”. The game…