Hunting White Whales
Happy new year and welcome back to Stargazer’s World. I finally found some time to blog again, so lo and behold my first post of 2025! It has been a longtime tradition to...
January 12, 2025
Random musings
Excited about Pathfinder 2nd Edition
I never thought I would be excited about Pathfinder 2nd Edition all of a sudden. As you know, I usually prefer rules-light games. I even found D&D 5th Edition overwhelming from time of...
November 28, 2024
Crowdfunding Backed Projects Audit 2024
In July 2022, I audited the Kickstarter projects I backed to know where all these projects were, if I was missing something, and what was still forthcoming. I wrote a Facebook post about...
September 1, 2024
#RPGaDay2024, Day 31 – Gamer I miss…
Sammy: A First-Line Friend I have reached a certain age where the death of friends, acquaintances, and even loved ones is not necessarily unexpected. Last year was particularly hard; two close and dear...
August 31, 2024
#RPGaDay2024 Day 27 – Shapeshifting
Day 27 of #RPGaDay2024. We’re counting down, five days to go! I continue posting about the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s...
August 27, 2024
#RPGaDay2024 Day 19 – Hologram
Day 19 of #RPGaDay2024. Let’s start another week. I continue posting about the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post...
August 19, 2024
#RPGaDay2024, The other topics… Days 13 to 18
Third time’s the charm. Once again, I’m doing the speed round, catching up on days 13 to 18. My regular daily posts have all been on the topics of Skala Wyzwania’s alternative prompt...
August 18, 2024
Cypher System / D&D5e / Legacy D&D / Numenera / Other Systems / Random musings / Rifts / RPG / RPGaDay2024 / Savage Worlds
#RPGaDay2024, The other topics… Days 7 to 12
Hello friend! I am doing the speed round once again. While my regular daily posts have all been on the topics of Skala Wyzwania’s alternative prompt challenge list, the regular prompts include all...
August 12, 2024
What’s new with the Stargazer?
Stargazer’s World, while it is focused mostly on tabletop roleplaying games, has also always been my personal blog which I have used to share brief glimpses into my personal life, mostly when it...
July 24, 2024
What’s holding Open Legend back?
A while back I bought a used hardcover copy of Open Legend. According to its subtitle it’s an open-source RPG which is right up my alley. I basically bought it on a whim....
February 5, 2024
Of Harassment In The Dungeons & Dragons Community And Other Unpleasant Things
Today I stumbled upon an article by Jeff Rients in which he writes about a rather lengthy Medium post by Dr. Clio Belle Weisman, a psychotherapist and social research scientist. She did a...
January 31, 2024
Tencent to buy D&D?
Just a few minutes ago I noticed a couple of posts on social media about a news article on the site Pandaily (which I have never heard before). I did some googling and...
January 31, 2024
We need more good player advice
A lot if not the vast majority of articles, blog posts, videos about roleplaying games are focused on giving advice to game masters. From my experience and observations, most people writing or producing...
January 31, 2024
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry
Happy New Year everyone! While looking through my posts from the last two years or so I noticed a disturbing trend: I make a lot of plans but they often if not most...
January 9, 2024
Books, PDFs and Online Services
Back in the early days of the hobby tabletop roleplaying games came in the form of books or small booklets, sometimes as part of a boxed set. With the advent of the internet...
August 4, 2023
My all-time favorite roleplaying game
Over the years I have played quite a few tabletop roleplaying games and I’ve read many more, but there’s one game or rather a series of games which have become my all-time favorite...
August 3, 2023
WotC’s Future VTT – A Few Thoughts
The more I read about WotC’s plans for their upcoming virtual tabletop software, the more I understand what the whole OGL 1.1 was all about. I am also pretty sure that people in...
April 20, 2023