What was, what is and what will be
After a few days being sick, I finally went back to work today. I think this is a perfect opportunity to give you an update on what’s going on at Stargazer’s World at...
November 23, 2011
Random musings
Change is good!
“To everything – turn, turn, turn There is a season – turn, turn, turn” From the song by The Byrds, by way of another book I’ve written some pretty personal posts here in...
November 22, 2011
Ask The Readers: Tell me about Gamma World!
Let me start by saying that I didn’t particularly enjoy playing D&D 4th Edition. Over the course of about half a dozen game sessions and after reading to various rulebooks I realized that...
November 16, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #2
My project is progressing much slower than I anticipated. But I actually made some progress and slowly, very slowly the crunch part of the game is coming together. Astronauts will use a simple...
November 14, 2011
TRPBTNTWA or “Things Role Playing Bloggers Tend Not To Write About”
Fellow RPG blogger Noisms came up with a list of subjects RPG bloggers usually don’t write about. Alas I was oblivious to the existence of said blog until I read an article posted...
November 11, 2011
Using the Kindle at the game table
Yesterday I finally got my Kindle. For quite a while I have been pondering whether I should buy one or not. Last August I bought an iPad and actually thought it might double...
November 9, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #1
On Friday I announced my project for this year’s NaGa DeMon. It will be a near future hard science fiction roleplaying game called Astronauts. And after making that announcement I realized two things:...
November 7, 2011
Astronauts
I finally had an idea for what I want to work on for NaGa DeMon! Astronauts will be a hard sf roleplaying game set into a near future which focuses on human space...
November 4, 2011
Putting fantastic back into Fantasy
Yesterday I played in another session of Chris McDowall’s “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. As always we had a blast and it also inspired me to write about putting back the fantastic...
November 4, 2011
My Plans for NaGa DeMon
Last week I’ve posted about this year’s National Game Design Month (don’t let you distract by National, everyone may join the fray). I definitely want to contribute something this year, but when it...
November 1, 2011
NaGa DeMon, NaNoWriMo and Scrivener
No, we’re not talking about demonic snake-like people from Indian mythology here. Nathan Russel, the guy who created the awesome FU RPG among other things, had a great idea. Why not take the...
October 26, 2011
The woes of the amateur game designer
I am sure a lot of you have found my blog for the first time after they heard about one of my game designs. Especially Warrior, Rogue & Mage has been pretty popular...
October 25, 2011
Fleeting Moments: RPGs That End
“The best way to plan a chronicle’s size is to come up with a number of sessions or months you’d like to lead it as a Storyteller, then reduce that by 20 percent.”...
October 24, 2011
Mistborn
Yesterday Crafty Games released its Mistborn Adventure Game Primer on DriveThruRPG for free. I have to admit I haven’t followed the development of the Mistborn Adventure Game at all. I haven’t heard of...
October 21, 2011
First Look: Anima Prime
Yesterday night I was browsing RPGNow in hopes of finding an interesting RPG I haven’t heard about yet. With thousands of titles on the site, it’s actually pretty easy to find stuff I...
October 20, 2011
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
Free FATE
Recently I decided to switch to Free FATE for my current FATE games. This has mainly three reasons: It’s free. We used Starblazer Adventures before, which is an awesome FATE game, but I...
October 10, 2011