The Top 5 posts of 2012
2012 has been a great year for the blog. According to the stats plugin I use the blog has been viewed about 260,000 times last year. This is quite amazing in my opinion....
January 16, 2013
News & Reviews
Pen & Paper RPG Bloggers Community at Google+ and RPG blogging tips
Yesterday Google started to roll out a new feature for Google+ called Communities. Communities are basically what groups are in other social networks like Facebook or Ning. I thought it could be nice...
December 7, 2012
Kickstarter: Fate Core System
Even though I haven’t played it that often I am a big fan of the Fate system. It took me quite a while to wrap my head around the Fate rules but when...
December 4, 2012
D&D Next / D&D4e / Dragon Age / Earthdawn / Just my two cents / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
The Kobold, the Quarterly and the Contest!
Fall is upon us (well those of us living in the northern hemisphere at least)! It’s the time of harvest, leaves fall, the weather turns colder, and apparently Kobolds come out of their...
November 14, 2012
Kickstarter: Camp Myth: The RPG
Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games recently me told me about the Kickstarter project he’s running right now. Together with Chris Lewis Carter who created the Camp Myth series, he’s trying to raise...
November 13, 2012
Review: ACHTUNG! Cthulhu – Three Kings
The possibility of links between the Nazis and the occult have been a topic of speculation for a very long time and eventually became a trope in fiction. Just think of computer games...
November 5, 2012
First Look: Barebones Fantasy Role-playing Game
I think I first read about Barebones Fantasy by DwD Studios a couple of weeks ago when I stumbled upon a post showcasing its cover on Google+. I have to admit that the...
October 30, 2012
Review: All We Have Forgotten
A lot of people – including me – are using video game or movie soundtracks as background music for our roleplaying sessions. Alas these soundtracks are often not a perfect fit. Some tracks...
October 23, 2012
Trick or Treat at DriveThruRPG!
Starting today, DriveThruRPG and it’s sister sites DriveThruComics, DriveThruFiction and WarGameVault will run the Trick-or-Treat promotion. The promotion will end on Halloween (October 31st). In that time you can get many of your...
October 22, 2012
Beware! The NaGaDeMon is right around the corner!
A couple of my friends are currently preparing for the NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. The idea is that you challenge yourself to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November....
October 22, 2012
Ashen Stars soundtrack: “All We Have Forgotten”
A couple of days ago Pelgrane Press released music for Ashen Stars created by James Semple, Marie-Ann Fischer and Yaiza Varona. The same team has been responsible for the awesome Eternal Lies Suite...
October 18, 2012
Unified Rolemaster Playtest
I have to admit I still have fond memories of the long Rolemaster campaign a friend of mine has run back when I was at university. Rolemaster is one of those quite crunchy...
October 11, 2012
Dragon Age / Feature / Fluff/Inspiration / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about the Midgard Campaign Setting? A review…
The new Midgard Campaign Setting by Kobold Press is out, and it is a great book. I can best summarize it this way… If you are a fan of the setting as it...
October 8, 2012
Kickstarter: Nova Praxis
You probably remember Nova Praxis, the transhuman sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game I previewed a couple of days ago. A Kickstarter project has now been started to fund the release of that fine game....
October 2, 2012
Freebies / Humor / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about Amethyst Renaissance? A review…
A personal note before diving into this review, hello dear reader, it’s good to be back. As the ebb and flow of the accelerated MA program 5 week schedule I am forced to...
September 26, 2012
Kickstarter: “Dungeonlands: Tomb of the Lich Queen”
Savage Mojo’s Tommy Brownell contacted me a while ago and informed me about a Kickstarter they are running. They are raising money over Kickstarter in order to be able to create two books,...
September 24, 2012
Preview: Nova Praxis
A while ago, Void Star’s Mike McConnell contacted me and asked me if I was interested in having a look at his upcoming sci-fi game Nova Praxis. I am a big fan of...
September 14, 2012
Review: Iron Kingdoms Core Rules
Back in 2008 I lamented the lack of Privateer Press’ support for the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying game and hoped that “Privateer Press will surprise us with their brand-new IK roleplaying game that perhaps...
September 11, 2012
Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary
A couple of days ago I was made aware of the D&D: A Documentary Kickstarter. What is the project all about? In a nutshell a group of people want to make a movie...
September 10, 2012
A look at BASH! Sci-Fi Edition
In my search for a roleplaying game system that I can use for that Perry Rhodan game that I have planned for ages now I stumbled upon Basic Action Games’ BASH! Sci-Fi Edition....
September 6, 2012