GURPS anyone?
When you browse through the RPGBN member blogs you read a lot about D&D 4th Edition, D&D 3rd Edition, old-school D&D (and all those retro-clones), Savage Worlds, White Wolf’s World of Darkness games...
October 5, 2009
Random musings
The Shiniest Stories on Stargazer’s World Last Month
September was a pretty good month for my blog. Let’s have a look back on your favorite posts from September 2009: My stance on D&D 4th Edition Some of you may remember that...
October 1, 2009
Is there still hope for Open D6?
A long time ago Eric Gibson, current owner of West End Games, announced that he plans to turn the D6 System into an open system. I believe he made that statement in his...
October 1, 2009
The end is nigh!
The end of the year that is. It’s mid-September now and fall is approaching fast (at least in the northern hemisphere). Perfect time to start a horror RPG campaign! So, why should you...
September 16, 2009
“Roleplaying games as a teaching tool” @ Musings of a ChattyDM
As announced some days ago, my first guest post at Philippe Ménard’s blog has gone live! Here’s a short excerpt: Some time ago, Barb, a homeschooling mom from California contacted me. She had...
September 14, 2009
Don’t take yourself too seriously!
The ROLPUNK manifesto has – at least in my humble opinion – an underlying message: don’t take yourself to seriously, and remember it’s just a game! Since I have started following RPG blogs...
September 10, 2009
Dungeonslayers / Fantasy Craft / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Site News / Storyteller / Swords & Wizardry
What’s on the horizon?
Today I want to give you an update on what’s brewing at Stargazer’s World right now. Just today I finished the first draft of a rather long post (1771 words so far) that...
September 9, 2009
Confessions of a Gamer: Dungeon Mastering
I can’t exactly remember when I decided to run my own games as game master. When I am not mistaken I have been playing roleplaying games for some time already when I read...
September 8, 2009
Why play old-school D&D?
If you haven’t been living under a rock for quite some time, you probably noticed a growing trend in the RPG hobby: OD&D is back with a vengeance. Ok, in most cases it’s...
September 2, 2009
Confessions of a Gamer: In the Beginning
In the recent post about Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay I revealed a few facts about my gaming history including that WHFRP was probably the game that influenced me a lot in how I see...
August 19, 2009
Follow-up on my Warhammer FRP 3rd Edition rant
I have to admit that in my last post about that topic I was really ranting and raving. The original WHFRP was probably the game that influenced me the most in my gaming...
August 18, 2009
Automata
A lot of RPG fans love Penny Arcade and I am no exception. Recently the first chapter of “Automata” has been completed. What I want to share with you today is a video...
August 15, 2009
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! WTF?
Fantasy Flight Games will release a new version of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game at GenCon this year. WHFRP was one of the first RPGs I played back in the day (this was...
August 13, 2009
To Savage or Not to Savage
When you convert an existing campaign setting or game to the Savage Worlds rules you have “savaged” the setting. But there’s one important question: does it make sense to savage every setting? Savage...
August 7, 2009
When in doubt, use RISUS
During the creation of my one-page dungeon “The Horror of Leatherbury House” I thought about easy ways to provide stats for the different NPCs without using a specific set of rules. One idea...
August 7, 2009
“The hobby is far from being dead!”
This time, the quote is by me. If you ask me, all those doomsayers that think the pen & paper roleplaying hobby will vanish in a few years are wrong. At first, we...
August 6, 2009
“Pen & paper games will be forgotten in ten years”
No, that line is not from me, but from game designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Games Workshop and creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. He has said these words in a recent interview...
August 5, 2009