Kickstarter: Dimday Red TTRPG – Nodus Zine 02
A couple of days ago Spiros Drakatos reached out to me and let me know about Dimday Red, his post-apocalyptical TTRPG and the Kickstarter…
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TV Series Which Could Make Great TTRPG Campaigns
Turning existing movie, book or TV show franchises into tabletop roleplaying campaigns isn’t always a great idea. In many cases the world depicted in…
What’s holding Open Legend back?
A while back I bought a used hardcover copy of Open Legend. According to its subtitle it’s an open-source RPG which is right up…
New Player Advice: Curb Your Expectations!
So you have watched a season of Critical Role (or another high profile Actual Play series by professional actors/voice actors) and now your are…
Ask The Readers: Option Paralysis
For years I have been dealing with a rather severe case of option or rather decision paralysis. As you probably know I own way…
Tencent to buy D&D?
Just a few minutes ago I noticed a couple of posts on social media about a news article on the site Pandaily (which I…
We need more good player advice
A lot if not the vast majority of articles, blog posts, videos about roleplaying games are focused on giving advice to game masters. From…
Some thoughts on The Fantasy Trip
Back in 2022 I bought the “The Fantasy Trip” bundle on Bundle of Holding. Before that I have been aware of the system and…
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry
Happy New Year everyone! While looking through my posts from the last two years or so I noticed a disturbing trend: I make a…
The Stargazer’s Legacy
A while back I decided not to talk about unfinished tabletop RPG projects any more since they more often than not went up in…
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
D&D: Honor Among Thieves is the latest movie based on the fan-favorite tabletop roleplaying games. While the older movies were in the so-bad-its-good category…
Books, PDFs and Online Services
Back in the early days of the hobby tabletop roleplaying games came in the form of books or small booklets, sometimes as part of…
My all-time favorite roleplaying game
Over the years I have played quite a few tabletop roleplaying games and I’ve read many more, but there’s one game or rather a…
WotC’s Future VTT – A Few Thoughts
The more I read about WotC’s plans for their upcoming virtual tabletop software, the more I understand what the whole OGL 1.1 was all…
ChatGPT and Game Design
Using AI to create art or texts is all the rage right now. But it’s also a highly controversial topic. These AI models are…
The Lost Ultima Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Even before I knew what pen & paper roleplaying games were, I was a fan of computer RPGs. Among the first titles I ever…
They lost! We won! Or did we? (And some musings on the upcoming D&D movie)
Wizards of the Coast managed to do something extraordinary. In just a few days they managed to alienate a large portion of third-party publishers…
One Game to Rule Them All …
For quite some time now, Dungeons & Dragons (especially in its 5th Edition) has been THE roleplaying game. There have been times when D&D…
Let’s talk about alternatives to D&D 5E
A lot of people are pretty unhappy with Wizards of the Coast at this point and are looking for other games to explore. Instead…
My thoughts on the OGL scandal
If you haven’t been living under a rock these past few days, you surely have heard about the scandal surrounding the leak of Wizards…