Role-Player’s Cant
Tell me if this has even happened to you. You sit down to play for the first time with a group of gamers who’ve been at it for a while (be it a...
August 25, 2011
Random musings
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 4!
I fear this whole Gen Con retrospective might be getting a little old, after all Gen Con ended 2 weeks ago. With all the complications I’ve had to write these posts you’d figure...
August 24, 2011
What I like about “The One Ring”
“The One Ring – Adventures over the Edge of the Wild” is the latest roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and I dare to say it’s the best so far....
August 23, 2011
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 3: On to other stuff…
So we’ve covered role-playing games (and I missed a couple of things but I’ll get to that in my next post), other games and minis, but there is so much more to do...
August 22, 2011
Get 20% off until September 20 on selected DriveThruRPG titles
As in the months before DriveThruRPG has provided us with a coupon code that gives you 20% off of the following products: Vampire Hunter$: Modern OGL Compatible SAWS+ Character Sheet for Pathfinder Field...
August 22, 2011
D&D is rubbish! Or is it?
EN World’s Morrus shared three videos created by Nikolas Lloyd three days ago. In these three videos its creator explains why he thinks early D&D was rubbish, why mid-period D&D wasn’t great and...
August 22, 2011
Ask the Readers: One campaign, several GMs
Regularly I hear or read about campaigns in which the gamemaster is not a permanent position held by just one person, but everyone from the group takes on the GM’s mantle from time...
August 19, 2011
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From Weird West to Barbarians of the Future
Today I want to share a couple of things I stumbled upon during the last days. Tomb of the Overfiend Weird West is definitely one of coolest old-school games ever conceived. It’s extremely...
August 17, 2011
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 2: Other games and minis too!
And we are back… Welcome to part 2 of my Gen Con retrospective. When we left our brave traveler he was in the midst of the four best days in gaming, Gen Con!...
August 16, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 3
When last we left our valiant adventurers, they had climbed Mt. Doom and were about to toss the Ring into the giant Volcano… wait… think that is a different story. Ah yes! Now...
August 15, 2011
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Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 1: Role Playing Games
Last time I wrote about Gen Con was a week ago as I did my first day wrap up in the wee hours of the night. Then and there I realized writing posts...
August 12, 2011
Excited about Airship Pirates
A while ago I already posted about Cubicle 7 and Abney Park’s upcoming post-apocalyptic steampunk pirate game. I have to admit I am easily excitable when it comes to roleplaying games, but c’mon,...
August 9, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 2
Last time, I talked about my plans for using L5R as our game system of choice, due to its relatively easy rules and also thematically easy to relate to premise. I also decided that we are going to be going a bit away from a purely murder, death, kill, loot style of gaming. But, when last we parted, I wasn’t exactly sure about what I would be doing with the game; this week, the game type gets narrowed down, and we move into the realm of character creation. Good stuff.
August 9, 2011
Three Years of Stargazer’s World
On August 4th Stargazer’s World has celebrated it’s third anniversary. Over the last 36 months my team and I have brought you over 1140 posts. That’s about 31 posts per month! I sincerely...
August 8, 2011
Gen Con Day 1… Results: Tired! (Lots of fun but beat)
Whatever possessed me to think I could actually write about Gen Con Indy after a full day of gaming? Well here goes a post about first impressions. I got to talk to a...
August 5, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: Our character creation session
Yesterday my new gaming group assembled for our Starblazer Adventures character creation. None of us had played FATE before, so it was an exciting experiment for all of us. As expected coming up...
August 4, 2011
My Gen Con plans…
I am really looking forward to Gen Con! I blogged about it a while ago… We are so close to that most sacred gathering of geeks in Indianapolis that I can taste it....
August 3, 2011