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
Savage Worlds
To Savage or Not to Savage
When you convert an existing campaign setting or game to the Savage Worlds rules you have “savaged” the setting. But there’s one important question: does it make sense to savage every setting? Savage...
August 7, 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
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
Another Space 1889 in the works!
Recently I wrote about a new version of Space 1889 being worked on by the German publisher Uhrwerk Verlag. But this is not the only updated version of Space 1889 that is being...
March 25, 2009
Two new upcoming Savage Worlds settings
Evil DM Productions, an indie game design studio, has announced two new settings for use with the Savage Worlds rules. The first setting “Legends of Steel” will be a sword and sorcery setting:...
February 23, 2009
Dungeoncraft: New Races for Asecia
The last time I wrote about Asecia I planned to use the FATE rules and I decided against non-human races. But in the end things always turn out differently than planned. My current...
February 2, 2009
One GM screen to rule them all
I have seen a lot GM screens in my roleplaying times and most of them were either not too sturdy or the information printed on the GM’s side was only partially useful. One...
September 24, 2008
Pirates are playing in the sandbox
This saturday, we concluded our first Pirates of the Spanish Main adventure. I used the adventure that was printed in the back of the book, added some things and made some minor changes...
September 15, 2008
“Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition” Review
Savage Worlds is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by Pinnacle Entertainment. So it’s no coincidence that the Savage Worlds rules have some similarities with the classic Deadlands rules. But other than Deadlands which...
September 5, 2008
Superhero campaigns
Although I am no avid fan I like superhero comics, movies and computer games. I also own “Mutants & Masterminds“, the superhero RPG by Green Ronin. But I’ve never actually played in or...
September 2, 2008
Savage Worlds
Last Saturday some friends came over to my place to play some board games. When we couldn’t decide what game to play I offered to run “Pirates of the Spanish Main” for them....
August 25, 2008