Accursed: A Savage Worlds RPG Setting
Last night Jason Marker (check out the interview I did with him back in 2011) got in touch with me to tell me about his latest project: Accursed. Accursed is a Savage Worlds...
July 12, 2013
News & Reviews
Preview: Odyssey–The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management
Odyssey is the latest book in Engine Publishing’s series of GM advice books. Engine Publishing was founded in 2009 by the people behind the exceptional RPG blog Gnome Stew. What sets them apart...
June 3, 2013
Robots, Maps and Traveller: An interview with Rouven Weinbach
The first roleplaying game I ever bought was the German translation of Marc Miller’s Traveller. I have been a huge fan of science fiction even long before I knew what roleplaying games were....
April 25, 2013
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What about Open Gaming Monthly? A short review…
After my review of Gygax Magazine and my bemoaning of the loss of Kobold Quarterly, I discovered another magazine that was recently released in digital form Open Gaming Monthly, a digital only magazine...
March 13, 2013
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What about Gygax Magazine? A review… (and a rant for good measure!)
When Gygax Magazine was announced I was thrilled. Although I am not a big super of the OSR movement (more on this later!), I understand its appeal and there are instances where I...
March 6, 2013
Review: Night’s Black Agents
Pelgrane Press’ Gumshoe roleplaying games usually don’t disappoint and Kenneth Hite’s Night’s Black Agents is no exception. Night’s Black Agents combines the spy thriller genre with vampires. The players are spies that have...
February 18, 2013
Kickstarter: Achtung! Cthulhu
We are breaking our regular schedule for some Kickstarter news. Two days ago Chris Birch started the “Achtung! Cthulhu – The WW2 Keeper’s & Investigator’s Guides” Kickstarter project. In 50 days he tries...
February 13, 2013
The Pathfinder Reference Document Updated (And a few other things!)
If you are a Pathfinder RPG fan you might already know this because Paizo has been very good at announcing it via social media and RPG new outlets have covered it, but just...
February 4, 2013
Gaming on the cheap – 2013 Edition (Part 2/2)
Last time I wrote about some highly recommended free games, this time I want to focus on inexpensive commercial games. All of the games listed below are available as PDF document for $10...
January 30, 2013
What about the Star Wars X-Wing Miniature Game? A mini review…
Seems I am on a Star Wars roll these days… Recently during a Puerto Rico Role Players geeknic I got to play the Star Wars X-Wing Miniature Game. I rarely play miniature games....
January 28, 2013
Gaming on the cheap – 2013 Edition (Part 1/2)
”Roleplaying games can be an expensive hobby, especially when you are the game master.” With these words I started a post in 2009 called “Gaming on the cheap” and it’s still true. But...
January 23, 2013
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How about a trio of reviews? Books from Kobold Press!
I haven’t done one of these in a while! Between work and classes I’ve been away from the blog and not been as effective at getting to review some books provided to the...
January 21, 2013
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
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
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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