Best & Worst of Gaming 2009 [Part 1]
Picking up a meme started by Zachary Houghton and the other hosts of the RPG Circus podcast, I look back at the best and worst in last year’s gaming. Best Gaming Company That’s...
January 1, 2010
Random musings
My experiences with “Trail of Cthulhu”
As I’ve written in my “Happy New Year” post just a couple of hours ago, we played “Trail of Cthulhu ” tonight. And it was a blast. We had a lot of fun...
January 1, 2010
Am I getting old or just lazy?
In the last years I have developed an aversion against games that are very rules-heavy. Although Pathfinder looks very sweet, I just can’t see myself any game based on the d20 System anymore...
December 16, 2009
Why I love the Dragon Age RPG
Some days ago Green Ronin finally made the Dragon Age RPG Set 1 available for preorder and offered it as PDF download, too. On top of that everyone one who preorders the boxed...
December 15, 2009
Cyberpunk!
Inspired by Triple Ace Games’ cyberpunk rules I would love to write a Cyberpunk setting of my own, but alas I can’t decide what kind of setting I would prefer. First off, there’s...
November 26, 2009
Roleplaying in the Dune universe
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my favorite SF books. I’ve read several of the sequels but in my opinion the first book was the best. My father owned a hardcover version of...
November 23, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Ballad of the Monster Manual
Usually I don’t post two Lazy Friday Video Posts on one day, but this is a special exception! The following video, that I found on BoingBoing a few minutes ago, is just too...
November 20, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Dungeons & Dragons TV series intro
I remember having seen a few episodes of this series a few years back and I still don’t understand why anyone thought this TV show was a good idea. And by the way,...
November 20, 2009
400 posts milestone
I was so busy in the last weeks that I almost missed that my blog hit the 400 posts milestone recently. And since my last milestone post in July much has happened in...
November 17, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: Vintage D&D Commercial
Now I understand why people believed D&D was utterly evil. This commercial from the 1980s makes me shiver! And did we really wear these clothes back in the ‘80?
November 13, 2009
Confessions of a lazy GM
I am a very lazy when it comes to preparing roleplaying sessions. When other GMs plan and prepare for weeks I usually make some preparations just mere hours before I start running a...
November 11, 2009
Morality
It’s the 28th of October, so I still have a chance to take part in this month’s blog carnival hosted by Games of State. The topic this month is morality, in-game and in...
October 28, 2009
Upcoming games I am excited about (Revisited)
In August I wrote a post about the upcoming games I was excited about. Some of the games that I listed back then have been released in the meantime, so I thought and...
October 26, 2009
Lazy Friday Video Post: How to Play a Role Playing Game
I’ve found this video when I searched for “roleplaying” on YouTube. What I found very interesting was the notion of having a “leader” who does most of the speaking for the group. Perhaps...
October 23, 2009
The RPG Bloggers Network won’t die …
… unless we let it die. The former RPGBN board members have announced today that they step down from their posts after there was some (sometimes very emotional) criticism of how the network...
October 20, 2009
Champions
Recently I started playing the MMO Champion Online. Champions Online is based on Champions, Hero Games‘ award winning superhero roleplaying game. Although I enjoy the MMO very much so far, I don’t know...
October 20, 2009
10 RPG geeks you should follow on Twitter
The main problem when you start with Twitter is that you often don’t know who to follow. Aside from millions of spammers, internet marketers and people who just tweet about what they had...
October 14, 2009