The End of The Forge
Recently Ron Edwards announced that the famous indie RPG forum The Forge will enter into its “winter stage” by the end of the year. What he basically meant was the forum will more...
November 3, 2010
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Death & Traps
As a Dungeon Master (DM) I have a confession to make. I want to kill a player character at my table. Just one. Not the whole party. Just one, or maybe two and...
November 2, 2010
Chimera Basic is out! Get it now for free!
The Welsh Piper just released his latest RPG: Chimera Basic. Like Chimera 2.0 it’s a rules-lite RPG that can be used in any genre. Chimera Basic is a 42-paged PDF which is a...
November 1, 2010
Free Stuff Friday: DinoPirates of Ninja Island
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: DinoPirates of Ninja Island Need a game? Need a free game? That what Free Shit Stuff...
October 29, 2010
Zombiepocalypse the SpyLite route…
At a recent local convention the Puerto Rico Role Players group set up a table to spread the love for pen and paper rpgs. This time around since we are so close to...
October 28, 2010
Eclipse Phase – A Study in Philanthropy
If you are even remotely interested in Science Fiction roleplaying games, you might have heard about Eclipse Phase by Posthuman Studios. It’s set in a future where being human is quite different from...
October 27, 2010
Iron Dynasty – Way of the Ronin
It’s been months since Gen Con and I still haven’t read all the books I’ve picked up there, let alone reviewed them. One of the books that impressed me most in August was...
October 26, 2010
Wolfgang Baur, Chris Pramas, and Michael Furlanetto to work on new patronage project
I just got word from Open Design that they’ll be launching a new adventure design project called “Dark Deeds in Freeport”. As already revealed in the title, Wolgang Baur (Kobold-in-chief of Kobold Quarterly),...
October 25, 2010
Free Stuff Friday: Mad Irishman Productions
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Mad Irishman Productions – Character Sheets Good Gravy this site has a lot of character sheets...
October 22, 2010
Fudge SRD TiddlyWiki
What’s better than the Fudge SRD? The Fudge SRD in TiddlyWiki format! One of the regulars of the #stargazersworld IRC channel on sorcery.net who goes by the name fudgebob has created a TiddlyWiki...
October 21, 2010
Dungeonslayers in the pub
Yesterday I had the opportunity to run a session of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeonslayers at our regular RPG pub meeting. We actually had two groups with four and three players respectively....
October 20, 2010
Stargazer’s World Book Club reminder…
We are past the half of the month and consequently past the half way point of our first book club reading. As posted at the beginning of this month the official selection for...
October 19, 2010
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A great opportunity and a good cause!
I know many fine folk in the blogosphere, in Twitter and other places have already shared the news, but just in case you have missed it, the fine folk at RPGNow and DriveThru...
October 19, 2010
Lapsus Calumni
Lapsus Calumni is the title of M.S. Jackson’s internet fanzine and its accompanying blog. His more recent fanzine issues contained great material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Lapsus Calumni #5 – The Head...
October 18, 2010
What about Advanced Feats: The Witch’s Brew? A review…
The fine folk at Open Design, i.e. Kobold Quarterly, are at it again, producing excellent third party products that support the Pathfinder RPG, specifically the classes in the Advanced Players Guide. I received...
October 18, 2010
Free Stuff Fridays: Javascript Character Generators
This is usually Youseph’s territory but I’m trying my hand at writing a Free Stuff Friday post because it’s a topic I’ve recently become very interested in, Character Generators. Every so often I...
October 15, 2010
Mouse Guard RPG Boxed Set
David Peterson posted on his blog today some new information about the upcoming release of the Mouse Guard RPG Boxed Set. At the NYCC we announced that there will be a Boxed Set...
October 14, 2010