Mutant Future
Some time ago I posted about Labyrinth Lord and other retro clones based on old-school D&D. I didn’t know that the creators of Labyrinth Lord also released Mutant Future, a game based on...
February 23, 2009
News & Reviews
Two new upcoming Savage Worlds settings
Evil DM Productions, an indie game design studio, has announced two new settings for use with the Savage Worlds rules. The first setting “Legends of Steel” will be a sword and sorcery setting:...
February 23, 2009
RPGbomb
Some days ago I stumbled upon RPGbomb, a social network for roleplaying game fans. Here’s what the creators of RPGBomb tell us about their service: RPGbomb.com is an online service that allows their...
February 22, 2009
New Edition of “Space: 1889” in the works
The German publisher “Uhrwelt-Verlag”, a sublabel of Ulisses Spiele, has secured the rights to produce a new version of the classic steampunk roleplaying game Space: 1889. Instead of using the rules of the...
February 20, 2009
Why you should give the D6 System another chance
Do you remember West End Games? WEG was the company that brought us many successful roleplaying games including Paranoia and Star Wars. Star Wars used a very cinematic and easy to learn rules...
February 20, 2009
Will WotC shut us down next?
According to a post at ENWorld Wizards of the Coast has sent a Cease & Desist letter to 4epowercards.com. This time a site has been hit that offered power cards for 4E for free....
February 20, 2009
What’s new with Dungeonslayers?
Some time ago I introduced Dungeonslayers to you, a free and easy beer-and-pretzels roleplaying game. I have finished the translation of the everything but the introductory adventure and the character creation section has already been...
February 19, 2009
My first CC3 map
Yesterday I finally sat down to create my first map in Campaign Cartographer 3. I bought the software and played a bit around, but never actually made a proper map with it. Now...
February 19, 2009
Stargazer’s RPG podcast recommendations
When I got my first iPod I fell in love with podcasts. I commute by train for about an hour every day. And the best way to spend this hour is by listening...
February 17, 2009
Check out this d20!
While reading Wil Wheaton’s blog (yup, that guy who played Wesley Crusher back in the day), I stumbled upon this post. I just had to share this awesome d20 with you. I wish...
February 12, 2009
My first thoughts on Goodman’s “Level Up” magazine
I have to admit that I haven’t heard about Goodman Games’ 4E magazine “Level Up” until a few minutes ago, when I noticed that criticalhits has twittered about it. Perhaps I’ve actually read...
February 10, 2009
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies
One of the RPG Blogs I’ve subscribed in Google Reader is the german blog Rollenspiel-Almanach. Today a post about Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies grabbed my attention. I actually haven’t heard of that...
February 10, 2009
Dungeonslayers: Playtest report
Yesterday, a few friends came over to my place to play some games. One of the things I had prepared was Dungeonslayers, a free, rules-light, old-school game. The 18-page rulebook contains the rules...
February 8, 2009
My thoughts on OGL, GSL and beyond
When Wizards of the Coast decided to release the 3.0 (and the following 3.5) Edition of their popular roleplaying game D&D we saw a lot of 3rd party supplements and OGL games. Of...
February 5, 2009
Roleplaying music: Elyrion – Call of the Titans
In October I promised you a proper review of Erdenstern’s new CD “Elyrion – Call of Titans“. Their last work is not part of their usual “Into the …” line but it’s a...
February 4, 2009
A quick review of the D&D Character Builder
This morning I downloaded the D&D Character Builder Demo version. Within a few minutes I had created a sample character and I was surprised how easy everything worked. But there’s still some room...
January 30, 2009
Freebie: HARP Lite
A friend of mine is an avid fan of ICE’s classic roleplaying game Rolemaster. I still have some very fond memories of our Rolemaster campaigns set into his homebrew world Ebur. When ICE...
January 28, 2009