Review: Into the Grey
The German band Erdenstern is known for their “Fantastic music for the adventure in your mind”. Their albums were mainly created with the use at the game table in mind. Five of their...
May 28, 2009
News & Reviews
Random musings
The last few days I spent some quality time with my girlfriend, played a couple of computer games I had been lying around for a long time and watched a couple of movies....
May 25, 2009
Chat with ICE on RPGBomb (get HARP for free until 9pm EST today)
The social network for RPG fans, RPGBomb, hosted a chat with the guys from Iron Crown Enterprises a couple of hours ago. Alas I got the email with the announcement while I was already...
May 20, 2009
Bill Coffin’s Septimus will be WEG’s first big release under the OpenD6 banner!
West End Games and Bill Coffin’s Septimus are not dead after all! Recently Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that the secret project, he’s been working on for quite some...
May 19, 2009
Review: Questers of the Middle Realms
Questers of the Middle Realms is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy roleplaying game by Silver Branch Games. Questers uses the PDQ rules by Chad Underkoffler’s Atomic Sock Monkey and I have to admit that was...
May 18, 2009
Another sale at RPGNow
I regularly check RPGNow for interesting new freebies and/or sales. Today I noticed that White Wolf is celebrating Alexandertide, honoring their writer Alan Alexander by selling books he has worked on for 25% off...
May 14, 2009
Grognardia reviews Dungeonslayers
Yesterday James Maliszewski of Grognardia has posted a review of Dungeonslayers. He has written a pretty detailed review and gave Dungeonslayers some praise, although he had some problems with the translation. Especially that part...
May 14, 2009
Help Zach to take his dad to the races!
Zachary, one of our fellow bloggers, needs your help. I have to admit that I am not good at things like that, so I just ask you to go over to Zach’s blog...
May 13, 2009
The future of roleplaying #2
Just when I published my lastest post, it struck me that I obviously missed a couple of things I wanted to say. But instead of editing the original post, I decided to write...
May 12, 2009
The Future of Roleplaying
This month’s blog carnival hosted by RoleplayingPro is about “The Future of Roleplaying”. He was kind enough to give us a couple of questions as inspiration for our posts and I will take up his...
May 12, 2009
One-page dungeon contest reminder
I am pretty sure most of you have already heard about the one-page dungeon contest held by our fellow bloggers Chgowiz and ChattyDM. But I think it’s in order to remind you that...
May 11, 2009
Dungeonslayers review @ “Here Be Gamers”
The roleplaying podcast “Here Be Gamers” has been reviewing Dungeonslayers, the game I helped translating from German to English some weeks ago. If you like listening to RPG podcasts and are still undecided,...
May 11, 2009
Ad Astra: PDQ vs. D6 1:0
Yesterday my gaming group assembled to play our first session of “Ad Astra”. Alas I wasn’t able to finish everything I wanted to have written down at that point, but we decided it...
May 10, 2009
Get “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu” for just $2 each
One of my favorite games I never played is True20 by Green Ronin. Recently I learned about two awesome new settings for that game: “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu“. The first is a modern cyberpunk...
April 30, 2009
The Magical Gnome
Today fellow blogger VulcanStev has setup “The Magical Gnome“, a Play-by-Post forum, where you can host and join PbP games. The site was created using the the NING social network service, so the...
April 23, 2009
Interview with Chad Underkoffler
With the release of “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies” (get it at RPGNow or IPR) a few days ago, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to ask Chad Underkoffler, if he...
April 23, 2009
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies now available over RPGNow
If you are interested in swashbuckling fantasy RPGs you probably have heard of Chad Underkoffler’s latest work “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies“. The hardcover version has been available for some time now at...
April 22, 2009