Dawn of a New Age, Part 1
This is the first installment of my experiment at sharing with you, our dear reader, some of the fiction I have written for my upcoming supers game. You, along with my players, will...
October 11, 2010
Random musings
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Gaming fiction weal or woe?
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
October 11, 2010
“A rose by any other name…” Poetry and Role Playing Games
The much quoted line in this post’s title is from a play you might have heard about, Romeo and Juliet, written by a Billy Shakespeare. This guy was old school, so much so...
October 7, 2010
RPG books on the iPad
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
October 6, 2010
Gears is not dead yet
Some of you may still remember that I was working on another RPG project earlier this year, called Gears. In June I decided to put Gears on a backburner and focused more on...
October 5, 2010
Fallout: Indianapolis – From SPECIAL to Atomic Highway
When I started converting the Fallout world to the Atomic Highway rules I encountered a few problems. No Vehicles? Aside from the Chryslus Motors Highwayman in Fallout 2 and the Enclave Vertibirds there...
October 4, 2010
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Free Stuff Friday: A Death Certificate
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: A Death Certificate I think we can all agree that when a player characters dies in...
October 1, 2010
Stargazer’s World Book Club: And the winner is…
Sometime ago I proposed the idea of starting a virtual book club here in the blog. The original post received a lot of feedback and interest but sadly real life kept me away...
October 1, 2010
Love the setting, hate the game!
I think we’ve all gone through it. We hear about it and we are intrigued… We finally get it to it and we love the concept… But, when we get to actually doing...
September 30, 2010
Book Club Reminder!
Just a quick reminder, after probably waiting too long, I finally made a post about starting the Stargazer’s World Book Club. I’m waiting for feedback on the possible books or games we could...
September 29, 2010
Telling the story my way…
As a long time Game Master I like to try different ways of telling a story. My latest session serves as an example. The previous adventure had ended as the players set forth...
September 28, 2010
Essentials and me…
This weekend I made my one D&D Essentials purchase, the Dungeon Tiles Master Set. I briefly considered buying the Rules Compendium, even had my FLGS pull a copy for me, but when I...
September 27, 2010
And finally, the Book Club!
Missed me yet? Anyone… Are those crickets I hear? Well I certainly missed all of you! Real life has kept me away from the blog for too long, and I figured what better...
September 23, 2010
Small Press Publisher Spotlight: Rogue Games
If you have been following this blog for the last two years you’ve probably noticed that I have a spot for the small press publishers. In my humble opinion, in the recent years...
September 23, 2010
PAX Prime 2010 – Day 3
Waking up on the last day of PAX was slow and painful for not only myself, but for Hannah as well. I pulled myself out of bed and lazily stood up. That’s when...
September 22, 2010
My thoughts on the D&D Essentials Starter aka “Red Box”
I recently got my own copy of the new Red Box. Although I am not that much interested in D&D 4th Edition, I still wanted to have a look what they’ve changed for...
September 21, 2010
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PAX Prime 2010 – Day 1
Hannah and I woke up early and eager on Friday so we could attend the PAX keynote address and meet up with our good friend Lyle. The Keynote was taking place at Benaroya...
September 20, 2010