Roll Through the Ages
First of all, a big apology to everybody who is waiting for me to write something about Descent or Arkham Horror, as originaly promised. I had very little time to spare recently and...
June 15, 2010
News & Reviews
More ICONS goodness…
My super fever continues and shows no sign of abating, not that I want it to! While looking online for ICONS resources I stumbled upon the ICONS Wiki. It’s still growing but there...
June 14, 2010
Fantasy Craft giveaway: The lucky winner!
This weekend Roberto and I talked about who should get the free PDF copy of Fantasy Craft. In the end we picked Thomas C. Why? We like the fact that he wants to...
June 14, 2010
Field Report (part 2): Alien Survivor (via Lady Blackbird)
That is the most convoluted title to any of my posts… But I digress! When we last left out intrepid heroes (i.e. my players) we were about to play Alien Survivor. Let me...
June 10, 2010
Warrior, Rogue & Mage: Character sheet!
Today I created an one-paged character sheet for “Warrior, Rogue and Mage”. Enjoy! The character sheet can be downloaded as a PDF file on the WR&M product page at Stargazer Games.
June 9, 2010
FATE / FUDGE / HERO System / Just my two cents / Mutants & Masterminds / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about ICONS? A review…
ICONS RPG is a new superhero role-playing game by Adamant Entertainment. It has been enthusiastically received by the role-playing community, if blog posts and sales at RPG Now/Drive Thru RPG are any indication....
June 9, 2010
Review: Sunken Empires
Sunken Empires is one of Open Design’s latest Pathfinder compatible products. On 82 pages you get in my opinion the definite works on underwater adventuring for Paizo’s Pathfinder RPG and much, much more....
June 8, 2010
Rolling up an Icon(ic) Superhero!
Ever since I began reading the ICONS RPG I’ve been itching to roll up a character. However I wanted to finish readying it before I did this. Don’t ask me why, it’s and...
June 8, 2010
Free Stuff Friday: Dungeons & Dragons
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: Dungeons & Dragons. I know what your thinking. “Free Dungeons & Dragons? How can this be?”...
June 4, 2010
Field Report: Lady Blackbird
Just to get some expectations out of the way, this is NOT a review of the Lady Blackbird adventure module by One.Seven Design! There are plenty of those out on the Web. This...
June 3, 2010
Supers, supers everywhere!
With the release yesterday of the new superhero game ICONS from Adamant Entertainment my superhero fever has reached new heights. I’m getting my copy today after missing out on the pre-order due to...
June 2, 2010
WFRP Toolkit
On May 19th Fantasy Flight Games’ WFRP Toolkit appeared on the iTunes AppStore. It’s a dice rolling application for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game which uses dice pools of custom dice for task...
June 1, 2010
New Erdenstern album in the works
If you have been following Stargazer’s World for some time now, you probably already read a few reviews of music suitable for roleplaying sessions. Aside from various soundtracks there are a few musicians...
May 31, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Fireworks!
Yesterday my Dungeonslayers supplement Feuerwerk was finally released in an English translation. Thanks a lot to the translation team, which did a great job! So, what’s Fireworks about? Fireworks contains rules for firearms,...
May 29, 2010
Skulduggery available for preorder
Robin D. Laws’ latest game “Skulduggery” is finally available for preorder at the Pelgrane Press store. If you preorder the printed version that will be released on July 1st, you will get the...
May 27, 2010
OGT Sponsorships
Jonathan Jacobs and his team of editors is currently hard working on the second volume of the Open Game Table. When Vol. 1 came out each and every contributor was provided with a...
May 25, 2010
WFRP: Their Fated Travels …
I was recently contacted by Robert James Freemantle, who turned the exploits of his Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay group into a story that you can now listen to on YouTube. I’ve embedded the first...
May 24, 2010
Freebie: Bill Coffin’s Septimus
The only game ever released by WEG under the Open D6 brand was Bill Coffin’s Septimus. Now that Bill got the full rights to this game back by Eric Gibson, WEG’s owner, he...
May 22, 2010
HERO System / Humor / Just my two cents / Mutants & Masterminds / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG
I’ve got supers on my mind…
In my years as a Game Master I’ve run a lot of campaigns, fantasy, sci-fi, modern, space opera, but no genre has proven as difficult as the superhero game. Sometimes I muse about...
May 20, 2010
Interview: Shane Hensley and Matthew Cutter
Another week, another interview – this time I had the opportunity to ask a couple of questions to Shane Hensley and Matthew Cutter from Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Stargazer: Thanks again for taking your...
May 17, 2010