Champions
Recently I started playing the MMO Champion Online. Champions Online is based on Champions, Hero Games‘ award winning superhero roleplaying game. Although I enjoy the MMO very much so far, I don’t know...
October 20, 2009
Other Systems
Dungeonslayers 3.5 released
Quite some time ago, Christian Kennig has updated his “”old-fashioned roleplaying game” Dungeonslayers to version 3.5. Aside from a new character sheet, the latest version of DS contains some bugfixes and minor updates....
October 19, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks #122
It has really been a busy week and as you may have noticed I haven’t posted as regularly as usual. This lazy friday video post is featuring the latest episode of Game Geeks....
October 16, 2009
Under the Dark Sun
This morning I noticed a post by Moritz Mehlem on his blog “Von der Seifenkiste herab”. In his latest blog post he writes about Matt Seplin’s project of bringing Dark Sun to Spellcraft...
October 9, 2009
The Fantasy Trip
D&D is not the only roleplaying game that evolved from miniature combat games. Steve Jackson’s GURPS actually is based on “The Fantasy Trip”, a roleplaying game that itself evolved from Metagaming’s Melee and...
October 6, 2009
GURPS anyone?
When you browse through the RPGBN member blogs you read a lot about D&D 4th Edition, D&D 3rd Edition, old-school D&D (and all those retro-clones), Savage Worlds, White Wolf’s World of Darkness games...
October 5, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: The Whisperer in Darkness
Recently I learned about the upcoming “The Whisperer in Darkness” movie. It’s the second adaption of a H.P. Lovecraft story by the people who brought us the awesome “Call of Cthulhu” silent movie....
October 2, 2009
Is there still hope for Open D6?
A long time ago Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that he plans to turn the D6 System into an open system. I believe he made that statement in his...
October 1, 2009
Robin D. Laws interview
Recently I started reading Esoterrorists and Trail of Cthulhu again, since I am planning to run a game using the GUMSHOE system. While doing some research on the system, reading playtest reports and...
September 30, 2009
THEY are out there!
I was a skeptic, a non-believer until I bought Monte Cook’s latest book “The Skeptic’s Guide To Conspiracies”. At first I was enraged to see that they sold me an obviously used book....
September 29, 2009
A Time of War – Beta release
If you are interested in the Battletech roleplaying game “A Time of War”, Catalyst Game Labs has a special offer for you. They have released the upcoming game as a beta release for...
September 28, 2009
Swords & Wizardry Reference Sheets now available at RPGNow
I am one of the people who got infected by the “old-school” bug by Michael Shorten’s Swords & Wizardry Quick Start. Today his latest product, the 29-paged “Swords & Wizardry Reference Sheets” PDF...
September 23, 2009
First Look: The SKETCH System
Imagine the following situation: it’s your weekly roleplaying session, everyone has gathered at the game table but one player. Alas this player’s character will be crucial for the next session, so you decide...
September 22, 2009
Ask The Readers: What are your thoughts on the GUMSHOE system?
Recently I have thought about running another horror campaign this fall/winter and two of the games I am currently considering are Esoterrorists and Trail of Cthulhu from Pelgrane Press. Both games are using...
September 21, 2009
The end is nigh!
The end of the year that is. It’s mid-September now and fall is approaching fast (at least in the northern hemisphere). Perfect time to start a horror RPG campaign! So, why should you...
September 16, 2009
Being Berin Kinsman
Yesterday I decided to have a look at Berin Kinsman’s autobiographic roleplaying game “Being Berin Kinsman”. The 45th anniversary edition is available at Lulu as Paperback and PDF. On 26 pages you not...
September 11, 2009
House rules for Swords & Wizardry
One reasons why I picked up S&W was that it’s very easy to modify. In most modern games, making a small change on one end can lead to catastrophic results. Not so with...
September 10, 2009