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40 Years a Gamer – A Life in 100 Games

Hello friends! Welcome back. Continuing my celebration of 40 years in this hobby, today I want to move from the “proto-history” I wrote about in my last post to the actual history. The...

January 16, 2026

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Advice / Cortex Prime / Feature / GURPS / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

Let’s talk about alternatives to D&D 5E

A lot of people are pretty unhappy with Wizards of the Coast at this point and are looking for other games to explore. Instead of pointing at some obvious choices like switching to...

January 14, 2023

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Guest Post / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / WR&M

Hacking WR&M–A Play Report by Malcolm Coull

A while back Malcolm Coull got in touch with me asking me about the source files for the WR&M character sheets. He had created his own homebrew version of “my little game” and...

September 15, 2017

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Ask The Readers / Freebies / Just my two cents / Microlite Games / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / RPGaDay2017 / Video / WR&M

#RPGaDay2017 Day 21: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Monday rolls around once more on #RPGaDay2017. So, let’s get going with a quote from the Bard of Avon. posts, thanks for dropping by for a read. Today’s question is: August 21: Which...

August 21, 2017

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Dragon Age / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / WR&M

Some Thoughts on Fantasy AGE

I like Fantasy AGE a lot. I tremendously enjoyed the original game using the AGE system, the Dragon Age Roleplaying Game. It even was one of the inspirations for my own fantasy RPG...

August 8, 2017

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Advice / Ask The Readers / Blogging / D&D5e / FATE / GenCon / Other Systems / Pathfinder / RPG / RPGaDay2016 / Savage Worlds / WR&M

RPG a Day 2016: “Shall play a game?”- Day 19

Friday at last! What a week… If you’ve been following my #RPGaDay 2016 posts you’ll notice my posting times have been all over the day this week. Work and family matters have kept...

August 19, 2016

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Game Design / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / WR&M

Why there will be no 2nd Edition of WR&M

Over the last years I have thought several times about creating a 2nd Edition of Warrior, Rogue & Mage. No game is perfect and WR&M is no exception. The combat rules need fixing,...

February 11, 2015

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Freebies / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

Recently a couple of people from the Stargazer’s World Google+ Community have started compiling new and old material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage and its derivatives. In order to help the community to...

January 21, 2015

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NaGa DeMon / Random musings / RPG / WR&M

WR&M Pocket Edition–A few Thoughts

During this year’s NaGaDeMon I worked on two projects: rewriting Galaxy Core (I worked on it during another NaGaDeMon) into a d20-based system and on a simplified and dice-less (!) version of Warrior,...

December 9, 2014

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Game Design / NaGa DeMon / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

NaGaDeMon: WR&M Pocket Edition

Over the last few days I have continued working on the project I dubbed WR&M Pocket Edition. Initially I wanted to create something which is to WR&M what Chris McDowall’s Into The Odd...

November 21, 2014

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Gumshoe System / Legacy D&D / NaGa DeMon / Numenera / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / WR&M

NaGaDeMon: It’s Full Of Stars!

One thing which makes NaGaDeMon so hard for me is that I tend to read a lot of roleplaying games especially the ones I like while I should be focusing on writing stuff...

November 7, 2014

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Freebies / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

WR&M Tactics – beta testers required!

Christopher Brind has written a very interesting supplement for Warrior, Rogue & Mage that adds some extra depth to combats. “Tactics” is inspired by action-point based systems found in games like Space Hulk...

October 15, 2012

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Not excited about D&D Next? Then check out these cool alternatives…

This morning I had a conversation on Twitter about the fact that bloggers don’t really seem to be excited about D&D Next anymore and what alternatives to D&D I would recommend. Since 140...

October 10, 2012

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The man behind the Stargazer! An interview with Michael Wolf…

I’ve been fortunate enough to be contributing for this blog for two and a half years now… How time flies! Through this time I have made many new friends, had the opportunity to...

August 9, 2012

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News & Reviews / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

Warrior, Rogue & Mage to be translated into German

Some months ago someone contacted me and asked me for permission to translate WR&M into German. This wasn’t actually necessary, because the license I released the game under allows that anyway, but it...

May 23, 2012

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Game Design / News & Reviews / Other Systems / WR&M

Tactical combat in WR&M (or any other Wyrm System game)

Earlier today Christopher Brind contacted me today and let me know about a cool ruleset for tactical games he has designed for WR&M. It’s modeled loosely after the system from the classic Games...

April 11, 2012

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Freebies / Other Systems / RPG / WR&M

The Known Lands of Vaneria

For the longest time fans of the Warrior, Rogue & Mage RPG have been wondering how the lands of Vaneria look like. This question is now answered! Matt Jackson, blogger and cartographer extraordinaire,...

February 22, 2012

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Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago

The deed is done! Warrior, Rogue & Mage has been translated into Spanish! You can check out the game’s announcement on the Arcano XIII blog and download the complete game here. As I...

November 16, 2011

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Update: WR&M in Spanish

Yesterday I got the final PDF of the Spanish translation of WR&M. I have to admit I can’t judge the quality of the translation since I don’t speak Spanish, but I am very...

November 8, 2011

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Ask The Readers / Fluff/Inspiration / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / RPG / Savage Worlds / WR&M

Character Concepts: The old hero…

Just as I am more of a lover than a fighter (and no I’m not giving you any references so you can confirm this, you better take my word for it), I am...

October 19, 2011

Stargazer Games website relaunched

Uprising on Antares-9

40 Years a Gamer – A Life in 100 Games

Let’s talk about alternatives to D&D 5E

Hacking WR&M–A Play Report by Malcolm Coull

#RPGaDay2017 Day 21: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Some Thoughts on Fantasy AGE

RPG a Day 2016: “Shall play a game?”- Day 19

Why there will be no 2nd Edition of WR&M

My Gift to the WR&M Community

WR&M Pocket Edition–A few Thoughts

NaGaDeMon: WR&M Pocket Edition

NaGaDeMon: It’s Full Of Stars!

WR&M Tactics – beta testers required!

Not excited about D&D Next? Then check out these cool alternatives…

The man behind the Stargazer! An interview with Michael Wolf…

Warrior, Rogue & Mage to be translated into German

Tactical combat in WR&M (or any other Wyrm System game)

The Known Lands of Vaneria

Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago

Update: WR&M in Spanish

Character Concepts: The old hero…