Apple’s new iPad and RPGs
I have to admit I am very excited about Apple’s upcoming iPad. In my opinion it closes the gap between smartphones and notebooks, could be a perfect alternative to ebook readers like the...
March 29, 2010
News & Reviews
Freebie: Old-School Fantasy Character Pack
You might remember my recent review about Reality Blurs’ new old-school fantasy adventure “A Keg for Dragon”. Yesterday they released a couple of pregenerated characters that you can use for that adventure or...
March 26, 2010
Roleplaying Poetry
I am usually no fan of poetry, but this is so awesome: The Gamer Once inside a game store dreary, while I pondered, obese and bleary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
March 25, 2010
D&D before I even knew what role-playing was!
I may go on an on about how long I’ve been playing but it’s not empty boasting, I actually played D&D before ever picking up any polyhedral dice! I don’t know how many...
March 25, 2010
Ask the Readers: Where do you buy your RPG products?
That’s something that interested me for quite some time, where do you buy your roleplaying games, supplement, dice, battlemats etc.? Back in the day I bought everything at a small game shop in...
March 24, 2010
Ed Healy interviewed ChattyDM
Earlier today Ed Healy tweeted about his interview with my good friend Philippe-Antoine Ménard aka ChattyDM. They not only talk about roleplaying games but also about Philippe’s teaching, politics and more. You definitely...
March 24, 2010
Review: “A Keg for Dragon”
Old School Fantasy #1: “A Keg for Dragon” is the latest adventure from Reality Blurs for Savage Worlds. I am a big fan of Savage Worlds but I never ran any classic fantasy...
March 23, 2010
Ordo Draconis, a review…
Apparently as a result of my previous review of the Pathfinder RPG (Which many of you seem to have liked, thank you!); I received a review copy of Ordo Draconis #2. What is...
March 18, 2010
Our first RPG pub meeting was a success!
Some time ago, I wrote about the plans to organize a regular, RPG-themed pub meeting. Yesterday we finally had our first meeting and it was a great success. More people than we anticipated...
March 17, 2010
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Welcome back to another boardgame review at Stargazer’s World! For my second article I have chosen my newest acquisition: Tales of the Arabian Nights by Eric Goldberg, published by Z-Man-Games. I have to...
March 15, 2010
GUMSHOE Sale on RPGNow
I just read about this on Simon Rogers’ LiveJournal blog: All of our GUMSHOE PDF products are on sale over at rpgnow.com at a 15% discount until 19th March. Our average rating over...
March 15, 2010
Microlite20 Under New Ownership
On March 12th, Robin Stacey (aka Greywulf) announced that he had sold the rights to Microlite20, including microlite20.net, to Seth Drebitko. I quickly asked Robin to get me in touch with Seth, which...
March 13, 2010
Five good things I learned playing D&D 4th edition (or… How I learned not to care about diagonal movement!)
Some of you might have gotten the idea from a previous post that I don’t like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. Nothing could be further from the truth. I played the game for...
March 12, 2010
“Blog of a new RPGer” interview
As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview...
March 11, 2010
Good news for all Iron Kingdom fans!
I almost overlooked yesterday’s post at Purple Pawn. But then I scrolled back and read the headline again: “It’s Alive: The Iron Kingdoms RPG Lives!" I have to admit I had to rub...
March 10, 2010
Get the “World of Darkness” rulebook for free this week
I just found out that the World of Darkness rulebook is available for free on RPGNow in celebration of “Read an E-Book Week”. This 224-paged PDF is the core rulebook for all “new”...
March 9, 2010
Dungeonslayers: Forgeworks
Finally the first official supplement for the Dungeonslayers game has been translated into English. Forgeworks by Christian Kennig is a 4-paged PDF containing new weapons, armor, and magic items for his free roleplaying...
March 8, 2010