I am one of the people who got infected by the “old-school” bug by Michael Shorten’s Swords & Wizardry Quick Start. Today his latest product, the 29-paged “Swords & Wizardry Reference Sheets” PDF...
Imagine the following situation: it’s your weekly roleplaying session, everyone has gathered at the game table but one player. Alas this player’s character will be crucial for the next session, so you decide...
The German RPG blog/podcast System matters has posted photos of some home-made GM screens. If you ever thought about creating your own custom GM screen instead of buying one, check out what other...
Some of you may have noticed that the RPG Bloggers Network forums had some technical issues yesterday. Obviously the forum has been hacked over the weekend and Graham Poole and I worked all...
Yesterday I decided to have a look at Berin Kinsman’s autobiographic roleplaying game “Being Berin Kinsman”. The 45th anniversary edition is available at Lulu as Paperback and PDF. On 26 pages you not...
The ROLPUNK manifesto has – at least in my humble opinion – an underlying message: don’t take yourself to seriously, and remember it’s just a game! Since I have started following RPG blogs...
Some weeks ago I posted about “Thrilling Noir Stories”, my roleplaying game inspired by the film noir genre. The latest playtest version codenamed “Bogart” is already pretty good, but still needs more testing....
UncleBear, father figure of RPG Bloggers has started a new movement: ROLPUNK! So, what’s this all about? Let the man speak for himself: Rolpunk (one L, no E) is about pure, stripped down,...
The latest episode of RPG Circus has been released a few days ago, but I just now managed to listen to it. As always I enjoyed it very much and a highlight of...
It all started with the Fantasy Craft preview PDF. While I was paging through it, my girlfriend was sitting next to me, and when we reached the section about Drakes, she exclaimed: “We...
It’s probably pretty obvious that I recently discovered the world of old-school gaming for me. In a way this new passion started with Dungeonslayers (which is actually not old-school at all) and later...
It’s great to read reviews and explore the stuff that someone has written but I always found it even more interesting to get to know the persons behind the games. That’s why I...
Yesterday I learned about this video seminar and headed over to the FFG site to watch it. It consists of five videos each about 5 mins in length in which Jay Little, Senior...
Yesterday Jonathan Jacobs, editor of “Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1”, and co-founder of Nevermet Press has let us know that the OGT is now finally available as...
Yesterday I was browsing RPGNow for some free stuff, when I discovered that the PDF version of Eclipse Phase is already available for purchase. Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game of conspiracy...
This weekend I wanted to give X-plorers a try, but alas aside from my girlfriend noone was around to play, so we decided to run the mission in the back of the book...
X-plorers is a new roleplaying game by David Bezio’s Grey Area Games. But although its brand-new you could easily mistake it for a game from the 70s. And I mean that in a...