Review: Mindjammer
A while ago Sarah Newton contacted me and asked me if I was interested in reviewing her debut novel “Mindjammer”. I have to admit I was hesitant at first, because I usually don’t...
March 29, 2012
Other Systems
Some thoughts on roleplaying in the SF genre
While I am currently a fantasy campaign I am already thinking about what I could run next. And as so often before the idea to run a SF game crops up again. I...
March 26, 2012
The D6 System needs your love
Another roleplaying game system that should get more attention by gamers is the D6 System by now defunct games publisher West End Games. A precursor of the system that should later become the...
March 20, 2012
Ask The Readers: FUDGE Roll Call!
Recently when I was looking for an idea for a blog post, #stargazersworld regular and Fudge enthusiast Jonas “fudgebob dicepants” Susara came up with the idea of the “Fudge Roll Call”. Fudge is...
March 19, 2012
Chronicle City to publish English edition of Dungeonslayers
For some of you this might already be old news, but I thought it would still make sense to share the news here. Chronicle City, the new British games publisher set up by...
March 13, 2012
Player’s Companion for “Adventurer Conqueror King”
There’s another Kickstarter project that grabbed my attention. Autarch is currently raising money to fund an expansion to the very intriguing Adventurer Conqueror King System. I picked up the core book a while...
March 12, 2012
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Savage Worlds, playing The Wild Hunt (and a long winded retrospective…)
I have been intrigued by Savage Worlds ever since I first read about it. A system designed to be “fast, furious and fun”, without sacrificing the detailed character creation and the tactical aspects...
March 5, 2012
Review: The One Ring – Adventures over the Edge of the Wild
J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings” is undoubtedly one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. It was one of the major inspirations for a lot of the...
March 1, 2012
Why Fudge needs a new edition
I’m assuming you guys already know what Fudge is. If not I recommend you check out the official Fudge site or my previous Fudge posts. After that, please come back. You’re back? Great....
February 29, 2012
You can never have too many maps! An interesting Kickstarter…
The emergence of patron backed publishing projects certainly caught me by surprise. By now I am familiar with Kickstarter and other similar endeavors and while I have promoted several I considered worthy and...
February 28, 2012
Review: Ruined Empires
Ruined Empires is an 43-paged adventure for Abney Park’s Airship Pirates (read my review here) written by the games’ authors Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton. And as in the rulebook Abney Park’s Robert...
February 27, 2012
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Ask the readers: Tools of the trade, RPG book transportation!
I’m on the last leg of my current Mutants & Masterminds Dawn of a New Age campaign. It’s gone on longer than I planned and we are having a blast, I am really...
February 23, 2012
The Known Lands of Vaneria
For the longest time fans of the Warrior, Rogue & Mage RPG have been wondering how the lands of Vaneria look like. This question is now answered! Matt Jackson, blogger and cartographer extraordinaire,...
February 22, 2012
Into The Odd
I think I have talked about Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd on Stargazer’s World already. It’s a very cool fantasy game with horror and sci-fi elements that is reminiscent of OD&D. But instead...
February 22, 2012
First impression: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
Yesterday the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game by Margaret Weis Production has been released in PDF form. I’ve been looking forward to this game for a while, mostly because I heard good things about...
February 22, 2012
The games I played …
Recently someone asked me to list all the games I’ve played or run over the years. It actually took me a while to remember all (or at least most of them) and today...
February 21, 2012
I want to be a spy, the interplanetary kind!
My recent post about TV inspiration has me musing about all the different inspirations that influenced me as a gamer. Probably many of you played the Choose Your Own Adventure books, and I...
February 21, 2012