Stargazer’s World presents Gears
One of the things I always wanted to accomplish was to write a complete roleplaying game system, a set of rules of my own design. Over the last years I repeatedly made attempts...
February 9, 2010
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Review: Wushu Open
Wushu Open is a short, free and rules-lite roleplaying game created with the Wuxia genre of fiction in mind, although it can be used in any genre. Wushu’s author Daniel Bayn also offers...
February 8, 2010
Reminder: One Page Dungeon Contest 2010 ends on March 1st!
Just this morning I had a chat with Alex Schröder, who is organizing this year’s One Page Dungeon Contest. He reminded me that the submission deadline is March 1st, 0:00 GMT. So, if...
February 5, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks reviews X-Plorers
I have been waiting quite a time for this particular review! Kurt Wiegel finally gave Grey Area Games’ X-Plorers a look, which is a game I enjoyed tremendously. X-Plorers is a “what-if” game....
February 5, 2010
My thoughts on the new D&D “red box”
It recently came to my attention (mainly by means of fellow RPG Blogger Greywulf’s post) that WotC will be releasing a new D&D 4th Edition Starter Box later this year. I have to...
February 4, 2010
What’s on my reading list right now?
I don’t think there ever was a time during the last 20 years or so, when there wasn’t at least one roleplaying game book lying on my bedside cabinet. I actually believe it...
February 3, 2010
Other Videogames That Should Be Turned Into Pen and Paper RPGs @ allgeektout
Fellow RPG blogger Aaron Broder followed up on my post about videogames that should be made into Pen and Paper RPGs yesterday with a post of his own. He talks about Bioshock, the...
February 3, 2010
DIY: Binding your printed PDFs
I know that a lot of gamers own PDF versions of roleplaying games, either because their is no printed version, the PDF version was way less expensive or they just didn’t want to...
February 2, 2010
Five Things You Should Never Say to Your DM
Geek blog “Geeks are Sexy” has shown its love for Dungeon Masters last Friday. Their post “Five Things You Should Never Say to Your DM” is their way to praise the unsung heroes...
February 1, 2010
Videogames that should be turned into pen & paper RPGs
Recently the extremely successful Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware was brought to the gaming table by Green Ronin Publishing. But the Dragon Age RPG is much more than just a simple conversion of...
February 1, 2010
Chimera RPG Price Reduction
When I opened my mailbox today I noticed that The Welsh Piper has sent its January 2010 newsletter. The most important news is that the Chimera RPG is now available for the reduced...
February 1, 2010
Get a free copy of KQ#10 until January 31
I think everyone already knows about the KQ store giving away the PDF version of Kobold Quarterly #10 for free until the end of the month. This post is just meant as a...
January 28, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life (Update)
It seems Penny Arcade joined the discussion about a court’s ruling to take away a prisoners D&D books, too: One commenter also provided us with two links to websites with further information on...
January 28, 2010
News from the Dresden Files RPG
Yesterday’s post on the official The Dreden Files RPG website made my entire day: Evil Hat Productions Brings The World of Harry Dresden To Life With The Dresden Files Role Playing Game Silver...
January 27, 2010
Ask The Readers: What was your first game?
From what I’ve heard the majority of gamers started playing with a variation of D&D, may it be the original D&D from 1974, AD&D 2nd Edition or the more recent D&D 3rd Edition...
January 27, 2010
No D&D for you, if you are serving life
I just found this news at BoingBoing and thought I should share it with you: Singer, 33, has been a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing game since he was a child, according...
January 26, 2010
Review: Alpha Omega – The Encountered Volume 1
In my “Best & Worst in Gaming 2009” posts, I picked the Alpha Omega RPG game line for “Best Production Values”. If you want your non-gamer friends get interested in the hobby just...
January 25, 2010