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 hobby. He already had decided on a location and...
February 23, 2010
Random musings
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 parody or serious advice. If it’s a parody, it’s...
February 19, 2010
“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 the idea of “new” and I settled upon this:...
February 19, 2010
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 400th post. I don’t think I ever had a...
February 16, 2010
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 used in these old quickstart games are even better...
February 16, 2010
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 game I enjoyed tremendously. X-Plorers is a “what-if” game....
February 5, 2010
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 Edition Starter Box later this year. I have to...
February 4, 2010
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 lying on my bedside cabinet. I actually believe it...
February 3, 2010
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 is much more than just a simple conversion of...
February 1, 2010
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 with two links to websites with further information on...
January 28, 2010
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 2nd Edition or the more recent D&D 3rd Edition...
January 27, 2010
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 fantasy role-playing game since he was a child, according...
January 26, 2010
[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, some paper and a couple of dice and you’re...
January 22, 2010
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 to find out more about gamers’ music tastes. The...
January 19, 2010
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 is more D&D than it ever was. We’ve seen...
January 18, 2010
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 for the video post. But today I found this...
January 16, 2010
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 out there who share their ideas with everyone interested....
January 12, 2010
Communication is the key
I usually don’t rant on my blog and I although don’t post my thought on the industry that often either, but there’s something that got my blood boiling. Perhaps you remember the Open...
January 12, 2010
Gaming-related plans for 2010
Here it is, the inevitable New Year Resolution’s Post! At first I thought I shouldn’t post about my plans this year, because I won’t probably be able to reach all the goals I’ve...
January 8, 2010
Look at the shiny new theme!
I did a major redesign of “Stargazer’s World” yesterday and although not everything is working as it should, I am very happy with the result so far. Of course there are some minor...
January 7, 2010