Game Design March 4, 2010 • 2 min read Gears: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes While developing Gears I have encountered many situations where I was not sure if the direction I am taking with the game is the…
News & Reviews March 4, 2010 • 4 min read What about the review? Revisiting Pathfinder… For those of you that read my previous post about the Pathfinder RPG and are scratching your heads, no my player’s characters did not…
D&D4e March 3, 2010 • 5 min read Driveby Nerfing! The recent Wizards of the Coast update to D&D 4th edition… A friend of mine actually got me writing this post after she shared the link to Wizards of the Coast announcement of their update…
News & Reviews February 23, 2010 • 2 min read Organizing a regulars’ table Some time ago I was asked by an old friend if I would like to participate in a regulars’ table focused on the RPG…
Advice February 19, 2010 • 1 min read Lazy Friday Video Post: “How To Play Dungeons and Dragons” While looking for interesting RPG-related videos I stumbled upon this one: And I don’t really know what the creators intended this to be: a…
Advice February 19, 2010 • 3 min read “You had me at hello…” Hello all! Since I’m part of the new team of contributors around here, I thought my first post should be about something related to…
News & Reviews February 16, 2010 • 3 min read Five Hundred! Wow! Who would have guessed that I hit the 500 posts milestone that fast. It was in November 2009 when Stargazer’s World reached it’s…
Freebies February 16, 2010 • 1 min read Microlite Storyteller This morning, Andrew Modro and I where talking about the old Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Quickstart rules on #rpmn. In his opinion the mechanics…
News & Reviews February 5, 2010 • 1 min read Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks reviews X-Plorers I have been waiting quite a time for this particular review! Kurt Wiegel finally gave Grey Area Games’ X-Plorers a look, which is a…
D&D4e February 4, 2010 • 2 min read My thoughts on the new D&D “red box” It recently came to my attention (mainly by means of fellow RPG Blogger Greywulf’s post) that WotC will be releasing a new D&D 4th…
FATE February 3, 2010 • 5 min read What’s on my reading list right now? I don’t think there ever was a time during the last 20 years or so, when there wasn’t at least one roleplaying game book…
Fluff/Inspiration February 1, 2010 • 4 min read Videogames that should be turned into pen & paper RPGs Recently the extremely successful Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware was brought to the gaming table by Green Ronin Publishing. But the Dragon Age RPG…
Legacy D&D January 28, 2010 • 1 min read No D&D for you, if you are serving life (Update) It seems Penny Arcade joined the discussion about a court’s ruling to take away a prisoners D&D books, too: One commenter also provided us…
Ask The Readers January 27, 2010 • 2 min read Ask The Readers: What was your first game? From what I’ve heard the majority of gamers started playing with a variation of D&D, may it be the original D&D from 1974, AD&D…
Legacy D&D January 26, 2010 • 2 min read No D&D for you, if you are serving life I just found this news at BoingBoing and thought I should share it with you: Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the…
Advice January 22, 2010 • 5 min read [Blog Carnival]: “We travel light. Let’s hunt some Orc.” When you are a player, you probably don’t need much material to be able to participate in a roleplaying game. You need a pen,…
Ask The Readers January 19, 2010 • 2 min read Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite rock band? As a lot of ideas these days, the idea to this post developed on Twitter. Zachary from RPG Blog 2 tweeted about being interested…
D&D4e January 18, 2010 • 2 min read D&D 4th Edition – is it D&D? There are people who believe D&D 4th Edition is not really worthy of the name Dungeons & Dragons while others say that 4th Edition…
Legacy D&D January 16, 2010 • 1 min read Lazy Saturday Video post: “Everything I need to know I learned from D&D” Yes, I know. It’s usually the Lazy Friday Video Post, but yesterday I was so busy, I didn’t manage to find the perfect subject…
Blogging January 12, 2010 • 2 min read Some blogs you should be reading My main source for inspiration are other people’s RPG blogs. The RPG blogosphere is extremely creative and there are quite a few talented people…