The dice are falling!
RANT WARNING! The following post contains hyperbole, conjecture and unfounded opinions. Read at your own peril. These days there is a lot of speculation about the death of the pen and paper RPG...
October 28, 2010
Random musings
Eclipse Phase – A Study in Philanthropy
If you are even remotely interested in Science Fiction roleplaying games, you might have heard about Eclipse Phase by Posthuman Studios. It’s set in a future where being human is quite different from...
October 27, 2010
The State of the Industry and SPIEL
On last Saturday I attended SPIEL, the international game and toy fair in Essen, Germany. It’s the largest consumer fair of its kind with over 150,000 people attending every year. Especially this year...
October 27, 2010
Infinities
Roleplaying game settings based on an existing book, movie or computer game franchise can be either a boon or a curse. On the one hand you usually get a fully fleshed-out world which...
October 26, 2010
Iron Dynasty – Way of the Ronin
It’s been months since Gen Con and I still haven’t read all the books I’ve picked up there, let alone reviewed them. One of the books that impressed me most in August was...
October 26, 2010
Some thoughts on SPIEL ‘10
On Saturday my girlfriend and I accompanied some friends to the world’s biggest consumer fair for gaming, the SPIEL in Essen, Germany. On over 44,100 square meters, all kinds of games are shown,...
October 25, 2010
Guillotine
Generally my Dungeons & Dragons game starts at 1:30pm on Saturdays. Sometimes not everyone can make it. Sometimes enough people can’t make it that we opt out of D&D all together for some...
October 21, 2010
Dungeonslayers in the pub
Yesterday I had the opportunity to run a session of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeonslayers at our regular RPG pub meeting. We actually had two groups with four and three players respectively....
October 20, 2010
Stargazer’s World Book Club reminder…
We are past the half of the month and consequently past the half way point of our first book club reading. As posted at the beginning of this month the official selection for...
October 19, 2010
Lapsus Calumni
Lapsus Calumni is the title of M.S. Jackson’s internet fanzine and its accompanying blog. His more recent fanzine issues contained great material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Lapsus Calumni #5 – The Head...
October 18, 2010
Dawn of a New Age, Part 5
Well here we are the last installment of my experiment at using the blog to share the introduction I wrote for my upcoming superhero game. I am happy with the way it turned...
October 15, 2010
Dawn of a New Age, Part 4
Greetings dear readers! This is part four of the introduction I recently wrote for my next campaign. A supers game in a world where no superpowers existed before, but a strange incident has...
October 14, 2010
Return of the Immortals
Note: The contents of this post first appeared at Polyhedral Dreams in two parts. This collated post has been slightly edited. It began with a dream. I had found a new group to...
October 13, 2010
Dawn of a New Age, Part 3
This is the part three of the fiction I wrote for my new supers campaign. Over the previous two days I’ve published the first two installments. This is something new for me; I’m...
October 13, 2010
Dawn of a New Age, Part 2
This is the second part of the fiction I wrote as an introduction to my upcoming superhero campaign. The first part is posted here. You dear readers are getting to experience this for...
October 12, 2010
Gaming finds!
For quite some time I could not understand the appeal of antiquing and the TV shows about it. Likewise some of you may find the idea of shopping for bargains at discount stores...
October 12, 2010
Strands of Fate
Strands of Fate is a heavily modified version of the FATE rules written by Mike McConnell. The idea behind Strands of Fate was to create a streamlined version of FATE which can be...
October 11, 2010