Iron Kingdoms
The people who followed my Dungeoncraft articles may already have guessed that the Iron Kingdoms setting by Privateer Press was one of the major inspiration for Asecia. In the beginning IK started as...
October 7, 2008
News & Reviews
Hinterland
Yesterday Titled Mills released the computer game “Hinterland” over Steam. In that game you play a character that was tasked by the king to build a new town in the hinterlands of his...
October 1, 2008
Free solitaire game: Inquisition
Perhaps you know 1KM1KT, an excellent site that publishes new free roleplaying games on a regular basis. Today they made Inquisition available, a solitaire game set into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The game...
October 1, 2008
RIFTS Ultimate Edition – Just my two cents
When I today opened my mailbox I found an US airmail envelope with the RIFTS Ultimate Edition inside it. I ordered it some time ago after writing about my favorite post-apocalyptic settings. The...
September 29, 2008
One GM screen to rule them all
I have seen a lot GM screens in my roleplaying times and most of them were either not too sturdy or the information printed on the GM’s side was only partially useful. One...
September 24, 2008
Is d20 Modern dead?
When I am not totally mistaken the last major release for d20 Modern was d20 Dark•Matter and it was released in September 2006. The most recent article on the official d20 Modern site was posted...
September 22, 2008
First Look: Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide
On Saturday I got my copy of one of WotC’s latest books, the Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide. Although the Player’s Guide is a bit thin in my opinion, it’s a very good looking...
September 22, 2008
Roleplaying music – Bioshock
The award-winning computer game Bioshock takes place in an underwater city called Rapture, where the dream of scientists and artists turned into nightmare. The soundtrack of Bioshock not only featured songs form the...
September 15, 2008
Pirates are playing in the sandbox
This saturday, we concluded our first Pirates of the Spanish Main adventure. I used the adventure that was printed in the back of the book, added some things and made some minor changes...
September 15, 2008
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
We are still there! LHC has not killed us (yet), so we still have some time left to play post-apocalyptic roleplaying games! There are probably dozens of interesting roleplaying games featuring the end...
September 11, 2008
Post/page ratings and iPhone support
This morning I installed two plugins that will make reading this blog even more enjoyable! WP-PostRatings You’ve probably already noticed the small star icons below the post titles. You can now rate posts...
September 11, 2008
Is D&D Insider worth up to 8$ per month?
Recently WotC’s Randy Buehler has revealed the plans for the future of DDI. In the near future we’ll no longer get Dungeon and Dragon for free, but we’ll have to pay to be...
September 10, 2008
Elementary, dear Watson!
I love RPG and I love murder mysteries. When I am not blogging, gaming or drinking coffee, I am probably listening to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook or watch the latest CSI episode. I...
September 9, 2008
Drinking from the firehose
The RPG Bloggers Network is awesome. It helped new or virtually unknown blogs like mine to get an instant readership almost over night and usually you get a lot of helpful comments. The...
September 9, 2008
“Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition” Review
Savage Worlds is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by Pinnacle Entertainment. So it’s no coincidence that the Savage Worlds rules have some similarities with the classic Deadlands rules. But other than Deadlands which...
September 5, 2008
Roleplaying music – “WoW: Taverns of Azeroth”
Recently Blizzard Entertainment has released a new game soundtrack album over Apple’s iTunes Store: “World of Warcraft: Taverns of Azeroth” composed by David Arkenstone, who has composed several great albums with Celtic music....
September 3, 2008
Superhero campaigns
Although I am no avid fan I like superhero comics, movies and computer games. I also own “Mutants & Masterminds“, the superhero RPG by Green Ronin. But I’ve never actually played in or...
September 2, 2008