Preparing for Gen Con: Almost There!
I can’t believe it’s just a few days to Gen Con! To say I am excited would be an utter understatement. Currently the emotional state I am in can only be described as...
August 2, 2010
Random musings
Warrior, Rogue & Mage is “Free Product of the Week” at DriveThruRPG and other updates
Wow, it has been just a few days since release but it seem I’ve hit a nerve with my free fantasy game “Warrior, Rogue & Mage”. Yesterday’s newsletter by DriveThruRPG lists WR&M as...
July 30, 2010
Character Death, woe or wow?
Last night I played a particularly long session of my weekly Pathfinder RPG game. During this game I killed a player character. Well that’s not quiet accurate. I wasn’t gunning out for him;...
July 29, 2010
Sci-Fi Setting, looking for some feedback…
Unlike some of my fellow writers here in Stargazer’s World I haven’t tried my hand at designing an RPG for some years now. I must admit that meeting so many great and creative...
July 28, 2010
It’s hard to be a reviewer
Sometimes it’s not easy to be a reviewer of RPG products. If you’ve followed my blog for some time now, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve written quite a few of those in my...
July 28, 2010
Dungeon Master Burnout… My cure!
Some context… I read a post by Chatty DM on twitter this past Sunday about him possibly taking a D&D sabbatical and ended up briefly tweeting with Greywulf about D20 burnout and how...
July 26, 2010
Preview: Warrior, Rogue & Mage Revised Edition Part 1
For the last weeks I have been working hard to get the revised edition of WR&M done. The revised edition is currently 38-pages long, contains a lot of small fixes and clarifications and...
July 26, 2010
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.
Tommy Brownell’s blog has a very interesting mix of topics: roleplaying games and wrestling. I have to admit that I know almost nothing about wrestling and so I won’t comment on his wrestling...
July 20, 2010
Growing the Hobby: The Horticulturist Way!
Mad Brew Labs is hosting this month’s RPG Blog Carnival and the topic is an interesting one, how to help the growth of the hobby? This is a topic I’m very interested in...
July 20, 2010
Atomic Highway
Recently I learned about the awesome post-apocalyptic roleplaying game Atomic Highway by reading Berin Kinsman’s review. While he’s not really into the genre, he really like the games’ mechanics and toolbox approach. I...
July 20, 2010
I Voted!
Please don’t forget to cast your vote for the 2010 ENnie Awards! I just submitted my vote. The voting polls are still open till midnight, July 25th (no idea, which timezone we’re talking...
July 19, 2010
Dark Sun Light… Microlite that is!
Andrew Mordo, also known as Corvus, fellow contributor to this blog and all around nice guy put together a little gem called Dark Sun Microlite. He’s our resident Microlite expert but I’ll take...
July 19, 2010
Salmon and D&D
Last Saturday I ran my weekly Dungeons & Dragons adventure. This weeks adventure was one I called “The Royal Sword of the Elvish Plains People” which addressed the back story of one the...
July 16, 2010
Preparing for Gen Con: Geek Wear
When I finally decided to attend Gen Con this year, I also decided that I wanted to have at least one t-shirt with my blog’s logo made. Why? Because it makes it much...
July 15, 2010
Mutants & Masterminds / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
First Impressions: DC Adventures
As soon as it was available, I decided to preorder the DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook from Green Ronin Publishing. Although I never actually had the chance to run a superhero game I really...
July 14, 2010
My GenCon Schedule
Recently Zachary Houghton posted his GenCon schedule. I think this is a great idea, because so you a) know where you find him, if you want to meet him and b) other GenCon...
July 12, 2010
Fantasy Craft / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG / Video
Video Review: Fantasy Craft
On the weekend I finally sat down and tried to record a video review of Fantasy Craft. I am using the word “try” because the result is probably not the best review possible...
July 12, 2010