Review: Alpha Omega – The Encountered Volume 1
In my “Best & Worst in Gaming 2009” posts, I picked the Alpha Omega RPG game line for “Best Production Values”. If you want your non-gamer friends get interested in the hobby just...
January 25, 2010
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Join us on #rpmn
Some time ago, a couple of members of the Roleplay Media Network got fed up with the network’s chat feature. The chat provided by Ning tends to hang regularly, swallows whole messages and...
January 25, 2010
Gamers Help Haiti Product Bundle @ DriveThruRPG
As you probably already know, One Book Shelf, the company behind RPGNow and DrivethruRPG is raising money to help the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. The fund raising effort has been a great...
January 20, 2010
Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite rock band?
As a lot of ideas these days, the idea to this post developed on Twitter. Zachary from RPG Blog 2 tweeted about being interested to find out more about gamers’ music tastes. The...
January 19, 2010
Unusual dice
I recently got word of an interesting eBay shop, where Abraham Neddermann sells a couple of unusual and hand-crafted dice. He currently offers several odd dice (like a d3, d5, d7 and d9)...
January 19, 2010
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Review: Tunnels & Trolls v7.5 Boxed Set
Tunnels & Trolls is almost as old as D&D (it was released in 1975 – that was the year I was born) and surprisingly enough the latest version is almost unchanged from the...
January 18, 2010
Open Game Table Vol. 2: Nominations!
On Saturday Jonathan Jacobs posted the list of nominations for Open Game Table Vol. 2 on his blog “The Core Mechanic” and it seems a few of my posts made the list, too....
January 18, 2010
D&D 4th Edition – is it D&D?
There are people who believe D&D 4th Edition is not really worthy of the name Dungeons & Dragons while others say that 4th Edition is more D&D than it ever was. We’ve seen...
January 18, 2010
[German RPGs] 1w6 – Ein Würfel System
Recently Rob Lang of the Free RPG Blog asked me if I knew “1w6 – Ein Würfel System” (1d6 – One Die System). I had to admit that I’ve heard of it before,...
January 14, 2010
Some blogs you should be reading
My main source for inspiration are other people’s RPG blogs. The RPG blogosphere is extremely creative and there are quite a few talented people out there who share their ideas with everyone interested....
January 12, 2010
Communication is the key
I usually don’t rant on my blog and I although don’t post my thought on the industry that often either, but there’s something that got my blood boiling. Perhaps you remember the Open...
January 12, 2010
Gaming-related plans for 2010
Here it is, the inevitable New Year Resolution’s Post! At first I thought I shouldn’t post about my plans this year, because I won’t probably be able to reach all the goals I’ve...
January 8, 2010
Review: Alpha Omega Core Rulebook
For quite some time I was interested in getting Alpha Omega for myself, but for some reason I never bought it. Then a few weeks ago, I had a chat with someone from...
January 7, 2010
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Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 4]
So, this is the last part of my look back at 2009. I won’t bore you with stories from the past from now on, because we live in the future now! 😉 Thanks...
January 6, 2010
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Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 3]
If you haven’t already, you should have a look at Part 1 and Part 2 of my Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 series. Best Adventure The best adventure of 2009 was not...
January 5, 2010
Open D6 Resurrection Wiki
The official Open D6 project may be dead (or at least of uncertain status), but there are still enough dedicated fans willing to resurrect the idea. One of those fans recently created a...
January 5, 2010
Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 2]
In Part 2 of this series I have a look at public relations and RPG websites. If you’ve missed Part 1, you can check it out here. Best Public Relations Another tough pick,...
January 2, 2010