RPG News for December 4th 2009
I found a few newsworthy items I want to share with you guys: Diaspora discount Perhaps you remember my post about Diaspora, the FATE-powered Hard-SF game. Fred Hicks now posted on his blog...
December 4, 2009
News & Reviews
Ask The Readers: Sex in Gaming
A lot of RPG books contain artwork of lightly clad females, the chainmail biki is a common trope of most fantasy games and especially a lot of game book covers were obviously made...
December 2, 2009
Sex Advice from D&D players
Recently I stumbled upon an article that gives sex advice written by D&D gamers. The article is a bit unclear on who has asked the questions and who were the person (or persons)...
December 2, 2009
[Blog Carnival] A look back at my goals for 2009
On January 9th 2009 I wrote a post called “Goals for 2009” as part of that month’s blog carnival. It was about what things I wanted to achieve in 2009, both in gaming,...
December 1, 2009
[German RPGs] “Das Schwarze Auge” 1st Edition in English
Recently commenter Elias Eight requested an overview article about German RPGs. I really think this could be an interesting topic for a series of posts, so I started doing some research on the...
November 30, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks #123 Dread
I’ve heard a lot about this game before and when I noticed that Kurt Wiegel had reviewed it on his YouTube channel, I thought this might be an appropriate video for today’s video...
November 27, 2009
Get the Open Game Table for $4.99 until November 30th
Jonathan Jacobs has reduced the price of the PDF version of the Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1 to just $4.99 until the end of the month! If...
November 27, 2009
Chimera 2.0 – worth a look? (Updated)
Yesterday fellow RPG blogger Greywulf wrote about the new Chimera 2.0, a quick-to-play multi-genre RPG. After reading his post I headed to the Welsh Piper website and was quite shocked that they want...
November 25, 2009
Diaspora
Recently I heard about the hard science-fiction RPG powered by FATE called Diaspora. I am a big fan of everything science-fiction and so I read a few reviews, checked out the official website...
November 20, 2009
You shouldn’t miss RPG Circus episode 11!
That’s what almost happened to me. When someone recently mentioned the latest RPG Circus (iTunes Store Link) episode, I was surprised that I haven’t listened to it. Usually I check it out on...
November 19, 2009
Another news scare-story about D&D from the 80s
On BoingBoing I discovered this mid-80s video about D&D driving kids to suicide. As special treat it features young Cory Doctorow (Canadian blogger and SF author) and his classmates. If you have trouble...
November 18, 2009
RPGBN Advisory Panel Community Member
As of today I am the newly elected RPGBN Advisory Panel Community Member. Wow, that’s quite a mouthful. As the community elected member my job is to be the voice of the community....
November 17, 2009
400 posts milestone
I was so busy in the last weeks that I almost missed that my blog hit the 400 posts milestone recently. And since my last milestone post in July much has happened in...
November 17, 2009
First Look: On Her Majesty’s Arcane Service
I recently got a copy of Flying Mice Games’ RPG “On Her Majesty’s Arcane Service” from RPGNow (RPGNow Affiliate link). The 234-paged roleplaying game is a perfect example of an interesting game that...
November 17, 2009
Please show me your homemade GM screens! (Update)
On November 5th I asked my readers to send me photos of their homemade GM screens. Alas only a few people have replied so far. If you have a cool homemade GM screen,...
November 16, 2009
Six-Sided Fantasy SRD released
While WEG’s Eric Gibson hasn’t shown up on the WEG Fan Forums for ages and things are generally looking grim for the future of the OpenD6 project, a fellow RPG blogger has provided...
November 13, 2009
Dragon Age Design Diary #1
Recently the first Dragon Age design diary went online. In this article Green Ronin’s Chris Pramas provides us with some details on the upcoming Dragon Age RPG that is based on Bioware’s new...
November 12, 2009
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play 3rd Edition Trailer
It seems while I was busy offline FFG released a new trailer for the upcoming WHFRP 3E game. While I have to admit that the components (cards, dice, sheets) look very good, I...
November 10, 2009
Please show me your homemade GM screens!
Some time ago, the German blog System matters had a post about home-made GM screens. I really liked the idea and linked to that post on my blog and obviously a lot of...
November 5, 2009
I am throwing my hat into the ring!
This morning I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring to be the community selected representative on the RPGBN Advisory Panel. If you have no idea, what I am talking about, you...
November 4, 2009