Airship Pirates Interview
Today we have a chat with “Captain” Robert Brown of Abney Park and Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton of Cakebread & Walton. They agreed to answer a few questions about the recently released...
September 29, 2011
Other Systems
Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite Call of Cthulhu adventure?
On Saturday I have started making plans for New Year’s Eve. Like in the years before a few friends will come over, we will have good food and do some roleplaying. This year...
September 26, 2011
Almost as good as the real deal: playing RPGs over Google+ Hangout
Yesterday I joined Chris McDowall and a group of three players I didn’t know before that in a game of “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. In this post I want to talk...
September 23, 2011
PDF version of Airship Pirates is now available on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG
Today the PDF version of Abney Park’s Airship Pirates has been released on DriveThruRPG/RPGNow! The PDF will set you back $24.99. As far as I understand it, people who already bought a physical...
September 22, 2011
Review: Abney Park’s Airship Pirates
Over the last few weeks you probably noticed a common theme to a lot of my posts on Stargazer’s World. Since I have heard about Airship Pirates, a roleplaying game based on the...
September 21, 2011
DC Adventures Heroes and Villains Volume 1 Unboxing
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VMugMGaUY] Links: GreenRonin Publishing DC Adventures RPG
September 19, 2011
First impressions: Abney Park’s Airship Pirates
A couple of days ago I found a mysterious package in mailbox. I opened it and found a copy of Abney park’s Airship Pirates courtesy of Cubicle 7. Some of you may know...
September 16, 2011
[Freebies] FU: the Free, Universal Roleplaying Game
Recently I discovered FU, the free, universal roleplaying game by Nathan Russel. At the core of FU are Descriptors. Descriptors are adjectives or short sentences that descibe one aspect of the character. Each...
September 15, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: First session
On Saturday I finally ran my first Starblazer Adventures session. As I’ve detailed in a couple of posts here on the blog we used the Mass Effect universe as a background and the...
September 13, 2011
New Airship Pirates downloads
There’s now new Airship Pirates material available at the Cakebread & Walton website: deck plans of the Pirate Ship Cordelia, as well as maps of the North American Wastes and the Sierra Nevada...
September 8, 2011
Review: Legends of Anglerre
It’s hardly a secret that I have a soft spot for the FATE system. I think over the last months I have acquired and read almost every FATE game I could get my...
September 7, 2011
Call of Cthulhu Anniversary Edition
When Chaosium announced the 30th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu I wasn’t actually that thrilled. Sure it looked nice enough, but I already owned the German Edition of the book. But over...
September 5, 2011
Freebies: Who Watches the Watch Fires (AGE System)
I am truly amazed how much third-party support Green Ronin’s AGE system has been getting lately. There are of course numerous fan supplements, adventures and conversions on the ‘net, but a good portion...
September 1, 2011
Call of Cthulhu / Fluff/Inspiration / Gumshoe System / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Savage Worlds
The Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos
In December 2008 I first read about Charles Stross’ short story “A Colder War”. Imagine an alternative timeline where the cold war ends in 1984 because the Soviets mistake a joke made by...
August 29, 2011
Ask The Readers: What’s your favorite Steampunk RPG?
My recently-discovered love for the music of Abney Park and their upcoming roleplaying game Airship Pirates has made me quite excited for all things steampunk again. And even though steampunk is probably not...
August 26, 2011
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
“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