Earthdawn Third Edition
After FASA closed its doors, I lost track of what has happened to the Earthdawn franchise. So I was pretty surprised that the current license holder, RedBrick Ltd., is actually releasing a 3rd...
June 8, 2009
Other Systems
When the World of Darkness died …
A couple of years back I played in a lot of World of Darkness games. Everything started with “Vampire – The Masquerade”. The game was pretty new (at least to us) and in...
June 3, 2009
What happened to the Doctor Who RPG?
Some time ago Cubicle 7 Entertainment relaunched their website and while their other product lines (SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures and Qin) make their appaerance at the new site, the Doctor Who RPG...
June 2, 2009
Ad Astra character sheet
Yesterday we finally started my Ad Astra campaign. In order to make things easier for my players and me, I created a couple of record sheets for characters and space ships. Today I...
May 31, 2009
Chat with ICE on RPGBomb (get HARP for free until 9pm EST today)
The social network for RPG fans, RPGBomb, hosted a chat with the guys from Iron Crown Enterprises a couple of hours ago. Alas I got the email with the announcement while I was already...
May 20, 2009
Bill Coffin’s Septimus will be WEG’s first big release under the OpenD6 banner!
West End Games and Bill Coffin’s Septimus are not dead after all! Recently Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that the secret project, he’s been working on for quite some...
May 19, 2009
Review: Questers of the Middle Realms
Questers of the Middle Realms is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy roleplaying game by Silver Branch Games. Questers uses the PDQ rules by Chad Underkoffler’s Atomic Sock Monkey and I have to admit that was...
May 18, 2009
Ad Astra: Starships using PDQ rules
When you have a look at the PDQ core rules you’ll notice that there is no section about how vehicles, space ships, etc. could be added to the system. In my opinion the...
May 15, 2009
Grognardia reviews Dungeonslayers
Yesterday James Maliszewski of Grognardia has posted a review of Dungeonslayers. He has written a pretty detailed review and gave Dungeonslayers some praise, although he had some problems with the translation. Especially that part...
May 14, 2009
Ad Astra PDQ character creation
Last weekend my group of players and I decided to give the PDQ system a try. We’ll be using it to run my “Ad Astra” campaign. At first I thought about using the...
May 14, 2009
Dungeonslayers review @ “Here Be Gamers”
The roleplaying podcast “Here Be Gamers” has been reviewing Dungeonslayers, the game I helped translating from German to English some weeks ago. If you like listening to RPG podcasts and are still undecided,...
May 11, 2009
Ad Astra: PDQ vs. D6 1:0
Yesterday my gaming group assembled to play our first session of “Ad Astra”. Alas I wasn’t able to finish everything I wanted to have written down at that point, but we decided it...
May 10, 2009
Get “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu” for just $2 each
One of my favorite games I never played is True20 by Green Ronin. Recently I learned about two awesome new settings for that game: “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu“. The first is a modern cyberpunk...
April 30, 2009
Interview with Chad Underkoffler
With the release of “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies” (get it at RPGNow or IPR) a few days ago, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to ask Chad Underkoffler, if he...
April 23, 2009
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies now available over RPGNow
If you are interested in swashbuckling fantasy RPGs you probably have heard of Chad Underkoffler’s latest work “Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies“. The hardcover version has been available for some time now at...
April 22, 2009
Roleplaying in the world of “On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness”
“On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness” is an episodic adventure RPG for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 set into a pseudo-victorian world where lovecraftian horror, pulp adventures and the twisted humor of...
April 21, 2009
Ask The Readers: Magic in PDQ?
Initially I planned to use FUDGE for the solo game with my girlfriend but in the end we decided to use Chad Underkoffler’s PDQ system (the core rules are freely available on the...
April 20, 2009
Dungeonslayers: GM shield
There’s now an official Dungeonslayers gamemaster screen called a GM shield (I think there are not enough rules for a proper screen). Here’s the blurb from the official site: Behold the Dungeonslayers gamemaster...
April 16, 2009
Solo Game with Fudge and Horror
Some time ago I have told you about my plans to try out a solo game with my girlfriend. We pondered over the several types of game we could try and finally settled...
April 15, 2009