A Study in Emerald
I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Yesterday I found out that Neil Gaiman has written a short story called “A Study...
July 7, 2009
Other Systems
Creepy!
If you need inspiration for your next horror RPG adventure, check out this video: Some of you may actually have seen this already. According to this article the creature is living in the...
July 3, 2009
Agatha Heterodyne
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I tried to come up with a Savage Worlds version of Agatha Heterodyne, the heroine from Kaja and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius. Creating this character was actually...
June 30, 2009
Girl Genius!
This month’s blog carnival hosted by Mad Brew Labs is about Steampunk & Klokwerks. Steampunk is (as you probably know) one of my favourite genres and so it’s no surprise that I wanted...
June 29, 2009
Forsaken Bounty
On Free RPG Day a free copy of Forsaken Bounty, the introductory adventure to the upcoming Rogue Trader RPG by Fantasy Flight Games, was available at participating game shops. Alas not everyone was...
June 25, 2009
Doctor Who RPG comes in October
According to an announcement of the Cubicle 7 site and this forum post, the Doctro Who RPG is finally coming in October. Why any mention of that game had been removed from the...
June 25, 2009
Quick & Dirty Games website launched
Today the website of the new roleplaying game publisher and design studio Quick & Dirty Games launched. Q&D Games is the brain-child of Michael Garcia, who some of you probably know from his...
June 24, 2009
Using Savage Worlds for an Eberron campaign
Inspired by Berin Kinsman’s post “Why Savage Worlds is Heir to 3rd Edition” I am thinking about running an Eberron Campaign using Savage World rules. Some of you are probably asking why someone...
June 18, 2009
OpenD6 logo revealed
Recently the web developer who is working for Eric Gibson to create the OpenD6 website revealed not only the OpenD6 logo but also posted an early screenshot of the OpenD6 website. The logo...
June 16, 2009
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
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