Long Silence!
It is a long time since I have posted anything here or even commented for that matter. I have not abandoned Stargazer’s World, I have just been exceptionally busy. Several weeks ago I...
June 18, 2018
News & Reviews
New D&D 5E Campaign Settings are Just Around the Corner
The site comicbook.com were the first to break the news. Obviously they spoke with Nathan Stewart, the Brand Director and Executive Producer of Dungeons & Dragons, at a recent event where he hinted...
June 5, 2018
Ghost Ops QS & One Page Solo
This is a sort of double play test as I was using the One Page Solo Engine that I talked about last time, specifically the Fudge version I wrote in Javascript, to play...
April 3, 2018
First Look Ghost Ops RPG
Ghost Ops RPG by FeralGamersInc is available as a free quick start document. You get an overview of the fudge system, five pregen characters (called Operators) , and overview of the combat system,...
March 31, 2018
Star Fighter – Fourth Wish Games
Star Fighter by Lucas Jones, Forth Wish Games, is a fast and loose Sci Fi role playing game released in February this year. I am a fan of games that define characters through...
March 8, 2018
Review: Mutant Year Zero: Gen Lab Alpha
I was never very fond of anthropomorphic animals. That’s one of the reasons why I never actually played Gamma World. I just found it too childish. When my Mutant: Year Zero GM approached...
March 5, 2018
Bundle of Holding: Traveller New Era
If you are into science fiction and space opera roleplaying games the latest Bundle of Holding may be of interest to you. For about $15 you get everything you need to run a...
February 14, 2018
Pocket Gumshoe -Everything is Connected!
If you are familiar with Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency you will know the phrase “Everything is connected”. It generally highlights that everything in the universe is connected to everything else in the...
February 12, 2018
Corporation from Brutal Games
Quite by accident I ended up spending all my free time last week reading the Corporation Core Rules. This is a free PDF so you can grab what a copy if you are...
January 30, 2018
Rise of the Eurogame
I read an article this week about the rising popularity of European and particularly German board games, the so-called Eurogame. The core difference apparently between American and German games in the past 50...
January 24, 2018
Feature / Game Design / Interview / Kickstarter / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG / RPG tools / Starfinder
Distress Call, a Starfinder adventure on Kickstarter, an interview with the author.
A couple of weeks ago I found about a new product in Kickstarter. With the success of Starfinder there are a slew of new third-party products available. Many push the system in new...
January 15, 2018
Tomes of Cthulhu
Bear with me on this one… Recently I have looked at the Fria Ligan games. I like their mechanics and it satisfies my desire for a rules lite but flavour rich game. In these...
January 12, 2018
Coriolis
I have spent some of my down time over Christmas reading up on Coriolis from free league publishing. I was super impressed with Mutant:Year Zero with its beautifully simple skill resolution mechanics, the...
December 31, 2017
Game Master Emulators
I half expected Micheal to post this morning, it being Christmas eve. In our house we celebrate a Swiss Christmas today and then do a British one tomorrow as the two halves of...
December 24, 2017
Gaming All Day, Gaming All Night
Today I thought I would do a bit of an opinion piece just to break up the number of game read throughs I have done recently. I like to think that deep down...
December 12, 2017
Mutant:Year Zero
I have read just about everything that is available to get for free several times in the past couple of weeks and this looks like an awesome game and I really want to...
December 8, 2017
A Look At Awaken
A while back Zoltan Lečei from The Games Collective, a Croatian game developer, contacted me and told me about their game Awaken which had been successfully funded by Kickstarter in 2015. Awaken is...
December 5, 2017