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
Random musings
They lost! We won! Or did we? (And some musings on the upcoming D&D movie)
Wizards of the Coast managed to do something extraordinary. In just a few days they managed to alienate a large portion of third-party publishers and some of their former business partners and alienated...
February 1, 2023
One Game to Rule Them All …
For quite some time now, Dungeons & Dragons (especially in its 5th Edition) has been THE roleplaying game. There have been times when D&D was basically to roleplaying games what Xerox was to...
January 15, 2023
My thoughts on the OGL scandal
If you haven’t been living under a rock these past few days, you surely have heard about the scandal surrounding the leak of Wizards of the Coast’s OGL 1.1. The Open Game License...
January 12, 2023
A Look Back on 2022 (and plans for the future)
Oh boy, where to start? When it comes to this blog, 2022 has probably been one of my most unproductive years so far. Luckily things weren’t that bad when it actually came to...
December 30, 2022
A story of D&D 5th Edition, vicious circles and mistakes made
The last time I wrote a post on this blog I was preparing a D&D one-shot for a group of dear friends. I had prepared a very simple dungeon adventure designed by Matt...
December 1, 2022
What’s New With The Stargazer?
It has been a while since I wrote a proper blog post and even though there’s no reason to feel bad about not posting anything, I actually do feel a bit bad about...
June 2, 2022
Excited about “Monster of the Week”
A couple of years back I had the chance to playtest tremulus by Sean Preston. Tremulus is a lovecraftian horror RPG using rules inspired by Apocalypse World. To this day this has been...
February 9, 2022
World in Progress
Yesterday I picked up a copy of Wonderdraft, a really easy-to-use fantasy map creation tool, and started playing around with it. Why did I buy Wonderdraft instead of just using Campaign Cartographer, which...
January 13, 2022
I have a plan!
Yesterday I asked the question whether I should give D&D 5th Edition another chance. After giving it some thought, talking to a couple of people and getting some feedback on Twitter, I decided...
December 31, 2021
Should I give D&D 5th Edition another chance?
In the last few days I have been thinking long and hard about my current gaming struggles and my obvious inability to make up my mind. In the last months I have considered...
December 30, 2021
Option Paralysis and the Urge to Create Something Myself
As you may well know I own a lot of roleplaying games. At this point I can’t even say how many. My “Pen & Paper RPGs” folder which contains all the PDFs I...
December 30, 2021
We finally killed Strahd!
For the last three years or so I was playing in an online Curse of Strahd game with a few friends. After having played Traveller for a while we were open for a...
December 28, 2021
Getting Back Into The Game
It has been quite some time since I last posted on this blog. For me writing about the hobby always is easiest when I actually play in or run games. Something comes up...
July 1, 2021
WEG Star Wars: An Almost Perfect Roleplaying Game?
I think it’s not the first time that I’ve mentioned my love for West End Games’ original Star Wars Roleplaying game from 1987. It’s one of the first roleplaying games I’ve played and...
January 20, 2021
The Crux With Established Settings From Movies, Games And Novels
Who doesn’t know this? You’ve just played through a video game, watched a movie or read a novel thinking this might make great source material for a roleplaying game. In fact some of...
October 7, 2020
The Misogyny At The Core Of Our Hobby
I consider myself a tabletop roleplaying games fan. I have enjoyed playing RPGs for most of my life, I’ve run games myself for over 25 years and I have introduced quite a few...
August 26, 2020