You learn who your true friends are in times of hardship…
I have not posted here since July 1st, and my last post was about the planned Puerto Rico Role Players Geeknic. Was it the greatest geeknic on earth like I predicted? Well if...
July 11, 2011
Random musings
RPG Blogging 101: You need to have a thick skin!
In light of recent events I thought it would be a good idea to come back to my RPG blogging advice series. Whenever you post something on the internet you risk that someone...
July 7, 2011
Oh look, the Magus… and more!
The new class for the Pathfinder RPG keeps catching me unaware. As I wrote when the play test began, I had no idea that Paizo added the open content of the recently released...
July 4, 2011
Come one, come all, to the greatest geeknic on earth!
I try (I really do) not to toot my own horn, or try to use the blog (too much) to promote another project I’m involved with, Puerto Rico Role Players. I guess there...
July 1, 2011
Fated to play FATE
During the last weeks I have felt the pull towards Evil Hat’s FATE system getting continuously stronger. I have always thought that FATE was one of the most elegant and ingenious RPG systems...
June 29, 2011
What I am working on right now
I recently had a couple of long weekends that allowed me to work on several projects. One of these projects has been Jay Steven Anyong’s BADASS which we released some time ago. Now...
June 27, 2011
Gaming Disappointments: “Perry Rhodan – Das Rollenspiel”
With the majority of games I bought over the years I was quite happy with. Of course not every game was up to my expectations but in most I didn’t feel totally disappointed....
June 22, 2011
Privateer Press announces Iron Kingdoms RPG
Yesterday Privateer Press finally announced an Iron Kingdoms Roleplaying Game. As already guessed by many fans and hinted at in an interview some time ago, it will share mechanical similarities with both the...
June 20, 2011
Gen Con here I go!
I realize it maybe a little premature to be so excited about it, Gen Con Indy is still over a month and a half away, but I feel like a kid the night...
June 17, 2011
Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about Faces of the Tarnished Souk: The Ghost Light That Dreamed, Gozutozawa? A review…
With a name that long, that title pretty much takes care of the review. It’s certainly a mouthful! This is a short book in PDF format detailing one of the many strange inhabitants...
June 16, 2011
The sword is mightier than the laser gun – or is it?
My love for everything SF started back when I was still in elementary school. For a while I had been admiring the silver hardcover books with those fancy covers that my father had...
June 15, 2011
Fun with Photofunia
On the German RPG Blog “Cthulhu’s Ruf” I read about Photofunia, a service that allows you to apply all kinds of interesting effects onto your portrait photos. Aside from being a perfect time...
June 15, 2011
Support the Stargazer!
Some of you may already have noticed that I added a new widget to the right sidebar of the blog titled “Support the Stargazer!”. The widget contains links to my Amazon wishlists (on...
June 14, 2011
Putting my (hypothetical) money where my mouth is!
It’s an old adage (and yes I do love that word, I’ve used it often enough) that it’s not the system; it’s the Game Master that makes the role playing experience enjoyable. As...
June 14, 2011
What about The Gift: Curse of the Golden Spear Part 1? A review…
The Gift is part one of a three part series (they call it a campaign arc at the Rite Publishing website) of adventures for the Pathfinder RPG system, this installment is for four...
June 10, 2011
Crazy Campaign Chronicles: Childhood toys…
Introductory note: I wrote a previous post on this series about those crazy ideas one gets for campaigns and never gets to plays. This is a little different because I got to try...
June 7, 2011
“Spanish, Spanish, Spanish saving throw, Spanish”: Role-Playing in different languages
Recently I had a tweet exchange with Shaun and Michael about which language we role-played in, and Shaun wrote an excellent post about languages in RPG games here in the blog last week....
June 6, 2011