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…
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Work in progress
Although I am more or less in “vacation-mode” and being lazy most of the time, I started working on a new campaign project. I…
X-plorers released
David Bezio just informed me in the comments to my last X-plorers post that the final version is available now on Lulu for download…
Give Dungeonslayers a 2nd chance
I am pretty sure some of you have already read about Dungeonslayers. In November of last year I first read about the project and…
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:…
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…
Dungeonslayers updates
While I was busy with some other projects the Dungeonslayers community was working hard on several new supplements for my favorite “old-fashioned” RPG: Into…
On WotC’s fan site kit policy
Yesterday our side of the Twitterverse was in uproar about Wizard’s silly new fan site kit policy. I usually don’t cover 4th Edition stuff…
“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…
“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.…
Happy birthday, Stargazer’s World!
One year ago, I wrote my first article “Beyond Azeroth” and if you told me back then that my blog would have hundreds of…
Vacation time
I just wanted to let you all know that I am having two weeks off from work and that usually leads to me being…
There’s more to OGL than d20 (Part 2)
This is the second and concluding (for now at least) episode of my series on OGL games. D&D 3rd Edition and the d20 System…
Reading Recommendation: “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming”
I have never played the early editions of D&D. Not even one of the retro-clones that are now freely available all over the internet.…
What kind of player are you?
I just read about a quiz that reveals what kind of player you are and of course I had to give it a try.…
There’s more to OGL than d20 (Part 1)
A couple of years back, when Wizards of the Coast released 3rd Edition of D&D, they not only updated the famous franchise, but they…
NOIR is now “Thrilling Noir Stories”
“It was another cold and rainy night. I was sitting in my 20 square yards appartment and bureau, staring into a half-empty glass of…
Ad Astra update
This weekend I finally continued work on my Ad Astra project. Some time ago fellow blogger Greywulf provided me with his awesome SF-themed render…
I voted in the ENnies!
I voted in this year’s ENnie Awards! And so should you! You can cast your votes here. The polls close at midnight, August 1st,…
Review: Lovecraftian Tales from the Table
A couple of days back, Paul MacLean from Yog-Sothoth.com wrote me an email and asked if I would like a courtesy copy of the…