#RPGaDay2024, The other topics… Days 13 to 18
Third time’s the charm. Once again, I’m doing the speed round, catching up on days 13 to 18. My regular daily posts have all been on the topics of Skala Wyzwania’s alternative prompt...
August 18, 2024
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#RPGaDay2024, The other topics… Days 7 to 12
Hello friend! I am doing the speed round once again. While my regular daily posts have all been on the topics of Skala Wyzwania’s alternative prompt challenge list, the regular prompts include all...
August 12, 2024
What’s new with the Stargazer?
Stargazer’s World, while it is focused mostly on tabletop roleplaying games, has also always been my personal blog which I have used to share brief glimpses into my personal life, mostly when it...
July 24, 2024
Heroes of Adventure
While browsing on itch.io I recently stumbled upon Heroes of Adventure, a free, rules-light, OSR-adjacent tabletop roleplaying game released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Like D&D it comes in three core rulebooks,...
June 6, 2024
Kickstarter: Dimday Red TTRPG – Nodus Zine 02
A couple of days ago Spiros Drakatos reached out to me and let me know about Dimday Red, his post-apocalyptical TTRPG and the Kickstarter he’s currently running to finance a zine to expand...
February 10, 2024
What’s holding Open Legend back?
A while back I bought a used hardcover copy of Open Legend. According to its subtitle it’s an open-source RPG which is right up my alley. I basically bought it on a whim....
February 5, 2024
Some thoughts on The Fantasy Trip
Back in 2022 I bought the “The Fantasy Trip” bundle on Bundle of Holding. Before that I have been aware of the system and read the clone of TFT released by Dark City...
January 9, 2024
The Stargazer’s Legacy
A while back I decided not to talk about unfinished tabletop RPG projects any more since they more often than not went up in flames shortly thereafter. But this time I am so...
December 21, 2023
My all-time favorite roleplaying game
Over the years I have played quite a few tabletop roleplaying games and I’ve read many more, but there’s one game or rather a series of games which have become my all-time favorite...
August 3, 2023
The Lost Ultima Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Even before I knew what pen & paper roleplaying games were, I was a fan of computer RPGs. Among the first titles I ever played from the genre were The Bard’s Tale and...
February 2, 2023
More Alternatives to D&D 5th Edition
About a week ago I wrote a post about several tabletop RPGs you could check out if you want to turn your backs on D&D. This post proved quite popular, so here are...
January 22, 2023
Let’s talk about alternatives to D&D 5E
A lot of people are pretty unhappy with Wizards of the Coast at this point and are looking for other games to explore. Instead of pointing at some obvious choices like switching to...
January 14, 2023
Why GURPS?
In my last post I revealed my renewed interest in GURPS aka the Generic Universal Roleplaying System by Steve Jackson Games. Back in the 1990s when I first got into roleplaying games I...
January 5, 2023
A Look Back on 2022 (and plans for the future)
Oh boy, where to start? When it comes to this blog, 2022 has probably been one of my most unproductive years so far. Luckily things weren’t that bad when it actually came to...
December 30, 2022
Fresh Take on d20 Modern in the works
Evil Genius Productions‘ Dave Scott recently let me know that they are working on “Everyday Heroes”, which is basically a new take on WotC’s d20 Modern using 5E-compatible rules. They even managed to...
February 10, 2022
Excited about “Monster of the Week”
A couple of years back I had the chance to playtest tremulus by Sean Preston. Tremulus is a lovecraftian horror RPG using rules inspired by Apocalypse World. To this day this has been...
February 9, 2022
Freebies: Castles & Crusades
Castles & Crusades by Troll Lord Games has been around for quite some time now. It was first released in 2004 as a simplified version of WotC’s d20 System inspired by old-school D&D....
December 30, 2021