My thoughts on Feng Shui
Last Friday I had the chance to play in a game of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a roleplaying game from the mid-1990s inspired by Hong Kong action movies. If you enjoy watching...
October 21, 2013
Other Systems
Fedoras, waistcoats, and Grey aliens
As I mentioned before I haven’t run any roleplaying games in a while. Several plans haven’t come to fruition and over the last weeks I got more and more frustrated. One advice I...
October 16, 2013
WHITEHACK
It feels like every time I turn a corner, I am bearing witness to yet another Old School Renaissance (OSR) role playing game being released into the world. A world that already has...
October 2, 2013
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Ask the Readers: What about this alien species?
Hello dear readers! Not writing too much on the blog these days, mainly because I’m working on my Thesis. But on those days when the writing is done and I’m not ready to...
September 30, 2013
More Mecha!
For some reason I’m in the mood for some more Mecha in my gaming life. Back in the early ‘90s we played Battletech almost weekly and I have some fond memories of a...
September 5, 2013
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Same game, new tools!
About two years and a half ago (can’t believe I’ve been blogging here for that long) I wrote a post about the then new game I was playing, Mutants & Masterminds, and I...
August 27, 2013
A different approach to campaign design
A while ago two of my friends and I sat together to talk about our upcoming Fate Accelerated game. We all had different ideas about what we’d like to play. Several ideas were...
August 21, 2013
Space 1889: Interview with Stefan Küppers
As a follow-up to my (p)review of Space 1889 I managed to get in touch with the people responsible for the popular roleplaying game and do an interview with one of the creators,...
August 15, 2013
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Numenera is here!
Little over a year ago Monte Cook launched a Kickstarter for his “science fantasy rpg set in the distant future”. Back then he was looking for $20,000 to fund his project. Thirty nine...
August 14, 2013
Space 1889 Soundtrack
In the latest update Angus Abranson mentioned that all backers at the Digital Rulebook Plus or Rulebook Plus levels get a Space 1889: Soundtrack for free (MP3 files) or for £11 if they...
August 12, 2013
Preview: Space 1889
As you might already know, Chronicle City’s Angus Abranson is currently running a fundraiser on Kickstarter for the English version of the new Space 1889 game which was released in 2012 in Germany....
August 7, 2013
Review: Psi-Punk
Psi-Punk is a 193-paged cyberpunk roleplaying game written by Accessible Games’ Jacob Wood powered by the Fudge System. Like many other recently released roleplaying games it has been funded over Kickstarter. Although it...
August 6, 2013
Kickstarters I recently backed
I have a kind of love-hate relationship with Kickstarter. One the one hand I am totally excited about all the cool new and amazing projects I can support there but on the other...
July 29, 2013
Review: Edge Of Midnight
The first character I ever played in a roleplaying game – I was playing TORG at a con in ‘92 – was a hard-boiled detective from the Nile Empire. I love watching movies...
July 16, 2013
More Games I’m excited about
Last week I posted about three upcoming games I’m excited about. Today I want to add a couple more to that list. Number one on my list is Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, you...
July 15, 2013
Accursed: A Savage Worlds RPG Setting
Last night Jason Marker (check out the interview I did with him back in 2011) got in touch with me to tell me about his latest project: Accursed. Accursed is a Savage Worlds...
July 12, 2013
Fate Core and Fate Accelerated now available at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow
Evil Hat’s Fate Core and Fate Accelerated Edition are now available for purchase from RPGNow/DriveThruRPG using a “pay-what-you-want” model. The recommended prices for Fate Core and Fate Accelerated are $5 or $2.50 respectively,...
June 6, 2013