Ashen Stars!
Today when I came home from work I found my copy of Ashen Stars in my mailbox! Finally! I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I think I preordered...
August 25, 2011
Other Systems
“Iron Dynasty: Way of the Ronin” Giveaway Contest
Today I am going to give away a free PDF copy of RealityBlurs’ awesome Savage Worlds setting “Iron Dynasty: Way of the Ronin”. If you want to learn more about this great game,...
August 24, 2011
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 4!
I fear this whole Gen Con retrospective might be getting a little old, after all Gen Con ended 2 weeks ago. With all the complications I’ve had to write these posts you’d figure...
August 24, 2011
What I like about “The One Ring”
“The One Ring – Adventures over the Edge of the Wild” is the latest roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and I dare to say it’s the best so far....
August 23, 2011
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 3: On to other stuff…
So we’ve covered role-playing games (and I missed a couple of things but I’ll get to that in my next post), other games and minis, but there is so much more to do...
August 22, 2011
Get 20% off until September 20 on selected DriveThruRPG titles
As in the months before DriveThruRPG has provided us with a coupon code that gives you 20% off of the following products: Vampire Hunter$: Modern OGL Compatible SAWS+ Character Sheet for Pathfinder Field...
August 22, 2011
Ask the Readers: One campaign, several GMs
Regularly I hear or read about campaigns in which the gamemaster is not a permanent position held by just one person, but everyone from the group takes on the GM’s mantle from time...
August 19, 2011
First Look: The Kerberos Club FATE Edition
Arc Dream Publishing’s The Kerberos Club has been released three times over the last few years. It’s first version used the ORE system, the second version used Savage Worlds and last but not...
August 18, 2011
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From Weird West to Barbarians of the Future
Today I want to share a couple of things I stumbled upon during the last days. Tomb of the Overfiend Weird West is definitely one of coolest old-school games ever conceived. It’s extremely...
August 17, 2011
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Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 1: Role Playing Games
Last time I wrote about Gen Con was a week ago as I did my first day wrap up in the wee hours of the night. Then and there I realized writing posts...
August 12, 2011
Freebie: Stars Without Number Sheets
We actually planned to bring you some belated GenCon coverage this week, but as it seems Sunglar has some serious computer problems right now. So I had to look for something cool and...
August 11, 2011
Interview: Iain Lowson
Dark Harvest – Legacy of Frankenstein really struck me by surprise. Before I found it in my mailbox I never even heard of it and it was of the best written games I’ve...
August 10, 2011
Excited about Airship Pirates
A while ago I already posted about Cubicle 7 and Abney Park’s upcoming post-apocalyptic steampunk pirate game. I have to admit I am easily excitable when it comes to roleplaying games, but c’mon,...
August 9, 2011
Gen Con Day 1… Results: Tired! (Lots of fun but beat)
Whatever possessed me to think I could actually write about Gen Con Indy after a full day of gaming? Well here goes a post about first impressions. I got to talk to a...
August 5, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: Our character creation session
Yesterday my new gaming group assembled for our Starblazer Adventures character creation. None of us had played FATE before, so it was an exciting experiment for all of us. As expected coming up...
August 4, 2011
My Gen Con plans…
I am really looking forward to Gen Con! I blogged about it a while ago… We are so close to that most sacred gathering of geeks in Indianapolis that I can taste it....
August 3, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: Biotics
I finally made a breakthrough in my efforts to get a Mass Effect campaign using Starblazer Adventures up and running. The biggest hurdle so far have been the biotic abilities and tech talents....
August 2, 2011
Updated Dungeonslayers website
It seems the English version of the 4th edition of the old-fashioned role-playing game Dungeonslayers is finally nearing completion and to properly celebrate this, Christian Kennig has updated the DS website accordingly: If...
August 1, 2011
Freebies / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What time is it? Jade Regent time!
I just got an e-mail from Paizo promoting their upcoming Adventure Path, Jade Regent. Curiously I organized my RPGs today (part of the ongoing get the library back into a semblance of normalcy...
August 1, 2011
The One Ring: Beginnings
A couple of days ago I read that Cubicle 7 has released a video on YouTube that shows The One Ring artist Jon Hodgson in conversation with its designer Francesco Nepitello. But it...
July 31, 2011