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
Other Systems
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
Strands of Fate
Strands of Fate is a heavily modified version of the FATE rules written by Mike McConnell. The idea behind Strands of Fate was to create a streamlined version of FATE which can be...
October 11, 2010
Games I was sad to see go away…
I guess we’ve all had them. The system you love; the one you can’t wait for the next supplement to come out for. And then all of a sudden, BOOM, cancelled! Thankfully in...
October 8, 2010
Gears is not dead yet
Some of you may still remember that I was working on another RPG project earlier this year, called Gears. In June I decided to put Gears on a backburner and focused more on...
October 5, 2010
Fallout: Indianapolis – From SPECIAL to Atomic Highway
When I started converting the Fallout world to the Atomic Highway rules I encountered a few problems. No Vehicles? Aside from the Chryslus Motors Highwayman in Fallout 2 and the Enclave Vertibirds there...
October 4, 2010
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Free Stuff Friday: A Death Certificate
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: A Death Certificate I think we can all agree that when a player characters dies in...
October 1, 2010
Stargazer’s World Book Club: And the winner is…
Sometime ago I proposed the idea of starting a virtual book club here in the blog. The original post received a lot of feedback and interest but sadly real life kept me away...
October 1, 2010