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
Random musings
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
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
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