Updated playtest version of NOIR
This afternoon I finally finished the layout of an updated playtest version of NOIR. The 8-paged PDF can be downloaded here. The latest version…
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Dicenomicon
Yesterday morning one of my readers (thanks, Jonas!) told me about a pretty new dice-rolling application for the iPhone/iPod Touch called “The Dicenomicon“. Some…
My new favorite podcast
A few days back I learned about RPG Circus. RPG Circus is a pretty new podcast hosted by three of my favorite RPG Bloggers:…
Preview: Kobold Quarterly 10
Warning! This preview has been written by someone who has never read any issue of Kobold Quarterly before. Yes, its true. I have never…
Please help us playtest NOIR!
Today Michael Garcia from Quick & Dirty Games and I released a playtest version of our roleplaying game NOIR. NOIR is a rules-light pulp…
Interview with Wolfgang Baur
Some days ago I managed to arrange an interview with Wolfgang Baur, Kobold-in-Chief of Kobold Quarterly. Wolfgang Baur is a RPG industry veteran and…
Stargazer’s World on Canon Puncture
I checked the blog stats this morning an noticed that the site http://www.canonpuncture.com/ links to my blog. I have to admit, I’ve never heard…
Ask The Readers:Dark Space
In a recent conversation that I had with Rob Donoghue over Twitter I learned about Dark Space. Dark Space was a campaign setting that…
First Look: Swords & Wizardry Quick Start
Today fellow RPG blogger Michael Shorten (better known as Chgowiz) released “Swords & Wizardry Quick Start” a 26-paged roleplaying game that is available as…
A Gamer in Japan Pt 2 – Location, Location, Location
In my last post in this series, I talked about who you will probably be spending a lot of your time gaming with in…
The ENnies and Quick-Start Rules
Yesterday’s post and similar posts on other blogs started quite a discussion in the RPG blogosphere. It even lead to the start of a…
My thoughts on the 2009 ENnie Award Nominations
The 2009 ENnie Award Nominations are live and of course everyone checks out the lists, interested to find out if his favorite game/setting/website/podcast/etc. was…
First Look: Traveller Core Rulebook
Please note: This is a first look, not a proper review. I haven’t read the whole book yet and I just write about my…
X-Plorers Playtest Version available
What if the fathers of roleplaying were fans of SF instead of Fantasy? That’s what David Bezio thought when he created X-Plorers. His game…
Skyfall
Today I stumbled upon Skyfall, an article by Rob Donoghue that allows playing Final Fantasy-inspired games using the “Spirit of the Century” rules. Actually…
A Study in Emerald
I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Yesterday I found out that Neil…
300!
When I started this blog last year I never anticipated I would reach the 300 post milestone in just 11 months. But with the…
Creepy!
If you need inspiration for your next horror RPG adventure, check out this video: Some of you may actually have seen this already. According…
OGT available at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
This morning I noticed that the “Open Game Table” is finally available at Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk! This is good news for us Europeans, since…
Cloudship Atlantis
Cloudship Atlantis is a free steampunk RPG written by fellow RPG blogger Rob Lang as his entry to the 24h RPG Contest. Considering that this…