Dicenomicon
Yesterday morning one of my readers (thanks, Jonas!) told me about a pretty new dice-rolling application for the iPhone/iPod Touch called “The Dicenomicon“. Some of you may remember that I already mentioned a...
July 23, 2009
News & Reviews
My new favorite podcast
A few days back I learned about RPG Circus. RPG Circus is a pretty new podcast hosted by three of my favorite RPG Bloggers: Jeff Uurtamo from The Bone Scroll, Mark Meredith from...
July 22, 2009
Preview: Kobold Quarterly 10
Warning! This preview has been written by someone who has never read any issue of Kobold Quarterly before. Yes, its true. I have never read an issue of KQ before. I guess KQ...
July 21, 2009
Interview with Wolfgang Baur
Some days ago I managed to arrange an interview with Wolfgang Baur, Kobold-in-Chief of Kobold Quarterly. Wolfgang Baur is a RPG industry veteran and has worked for many companies including Wizards of the...
July 20, 2009
Stargazer’s World on Canon Puncture
I checked the blog stats this morning an noticed that the site http://www.canonpuncture.com/ links to my blog. I have to admit, I’ve never heard from that site before and checked it out. I...
July 20, 2009
First Look: Swords & Wizardry Quick Start
Today fellow RPG blogger Michael Shorten (better known as Chgowiz) released “Swords & Wizardry Quick Start” a 26-paged roleplaying game that is available as paperback or free PDF download on Lulu. “Swords &...
July 16, 2009
The ENnies and Quick-Start Rules
Yesterday’s post and similar posts on other blogs started quite a discussion in the RPG blogosphere. It even lead to the start of a small campaign to promote the two products that are...
July 15, 2009
My thoughts on the 2009 ENnie Award Nominations
The 2009 ENnie Award Nominations are live and of course everyone checks out the lists, interested to find out if his favorite game/setting/website/podcast/etc. was nominated. I was pretty happy to see a few...
July 13, 2009
First Look: Traveller Core Rulebook
Please note: This is a first look, not a proper review. I haven’t read the whole book yet and I just write about my initial thoughts. So please take everything written here with...
July 13, 2009
OGT available at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
This morning I noticed that the “Open Game Table” is finally available at Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk! This is good news for us Europeans, since shipping from the US not only takes ages but...
July 2, 2009
Cloudship Atlantis
Cloudship Atlantis is a free steampunk RPG written by fellow RPG blogger Rob Lang as his entry to the 24h RPG Contest. Considering that this game has been designed and edited in just 24h,...
July 2, 2009
Warning! This post may cause 1D6 SAN loss!
I’ve seen quite a lot of roleplaying games in my time and I’ve even encountered a few pretty strange ones. But there’s one game that strikes fear in the heart of even the...
July 2, 2009
One-Page Dungeon Contest winners announced
Today Chgowiz and ChattyDM announced the winners of the “One Page Dungeon Contest”. 6 judges including the aforementioned RPG bloggers as well as Dave: the Game, Sham, Amityville Mike and Alex Schroeder had...
July 1, 2009
Forsaken Bounty
On Free RPG Day a free copy of Forsaken Bounty, the introductory adventure to the upcoming Rogue Trader RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, was available at participating game shops. Alas not everyone was...
June 25, 2009
Doctor Who RPG comes in October
According to an announcement of the Cubicle 7 site and this forum post, the Doctro Who RPG is finally coming in October. Why any mention of that game had been removed from the...
June 25, 2009
Quick & Dirty Games website launched
Today the website of the new roleplaying game publisher and design studio Quick & Dirty Games launched. Q&D Games is the brain-child of Michael Garcia, who some of you probably know from his...
June 24, 2009
Gaming on the cheap
Roleplaying games can be an expensive hobby, especially when you are the game master. Imagine you want to run games using everyone’s favorite fantasy game. You usually need at least one copy of...
June 22, 2009