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…
✦ Category: Random musings
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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…