#RPGaDay2017 Day 1: When you wish upon a die!
Here we go! If you read yesterday’s post you know all about #RPGaDay2017 and my plan to blog about it here and to vlog…
✦ Category: Random musings
Pre-#RPGaDay2017 Post… Get your motors running!
Like Peter Fonda driving down the road to the Steppenwolf’s classic it’s time to get ready. Like Jack Nicholson breaking through a door at…
Even Stranger Things Are Coming
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you probably have heard about Stranger Things, a Netflix series, which came basically out of nowhere,…
No love for WaRP?
In May 2012 I wrote a short blog post about the then recent release of the Wanton Roleplaying System (aka WaRP) under the OGL.…
Plans For After The Pause
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am currently taking a break from GMing. I hung my GM’s mantle on the hanger and…
Player Advice
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that while there are a lot of posts about how to be a better GM, there…
Games I’m excited about: Genesys
Fantasy Flight Games recently announced a new genre-agnostic roleplaying game powered by the Narrative Dice System, which is of course the system used in their…
Taking another break
The roleplaying games hobby can be pretty frustrating at times, especially if you’re a game master. One issue I’ve had all my life is…
Still alive …
Usually I avoid this kind of posts, but since I haven’t really written anything since May, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to send a…
New Traveller Starter Set
Sometimes I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of the people working at Mongoose. Recently they released the digital version of a…
Traveller: No Hero’s Journey
During the preparation of my upcoming Traveller campaign I realized something about Traveller: it’s different in one important aspect from most other roleplaying game.…
In My Traveller Universe
The work on my version of the Traveller universe continues. Initially I planned to create a subsector from scratch and place it at the…
Cepheus, Python & Me
UPDATE: I just found an error in my code that was responsible for the ridiculously high populations on many worlds. Line 108 is pp…
The Endless Quest For A Science Fiction Campaign Setting
I think as long as I knew about roleplaying games I was looking for the “perfect” science fiction setting. Of course there’s no such…
Video Game Recommendation: Torment–Tides Of Numenera
Yesterday InXile Entertainment released Torment: Tides of Numenera, the long-awaited computer role-playing game set into Monte Cook’s Ninth World. In a way it’s also…
EN Publishing and the Worlds of 2000AD
A couple of days ago I got an email by Angus Abranson with a press release from EN Publishing. It was about their acquisition…
Actual Play Report: Shadowrun Anarchy
Yesterday I ran Shadowrun Anarchy for my friends. Six of my “Stargazer’s Irregulars” showed up at 2 pm and after chatting, making jokes, and…
My Thoughts on Shadowrun: Anarchy
Shadowrun: Anarchy is the game I have been waiting for since I first played Shadowrun 1st Edition back in the 1990s. Anarchy is an…
Some Ramblings on the OSR, RIFTS, and more
A couple of years back the OSR was a mystery to me. For me it was strange that people put so much work and…
My Gamer ADD is again in Full Swing
At the moment thousands of ideas are rushing through my head. I am looking at various roleplaying games at the same time, think about…