The Horror of Leatherbury House
Following into the footsteps of Robertson Games I decided to share my submission to the One-Page Dungeon Contest with you. At first I didn’t want to participate. I haven’t created any adventure before...
May 14, 2009
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Grognardia reviews Dungeonslayers
Yesterday James Maliszewski of Grognardia has posted a review of Dungeonslayers. He has written a pretty detailed review and gave Dungeonslayers some praise, although he had some problems with the translation. Especially that part...
May 14, 2009
Ad Astra PDQ character creation
Last weekend my group of players and I decided to give the PDQ system a try. We’ll be using it to run my “Ad Astra” campaign. At first I thought about using the...
May 14, 2009
Help Zach to take his dad to the races!
Zachary, one of our fellow bloggers, needs your help. I have to admit that I am not good at things like that, so I just ask you to go over to Zach’s blog...
May 13, 2009
The future of roleplaying #2
Just when I published my lastest post, it struck me that I obviously missed a couple of things I wanted to say. But instead of editing the original post, I decided to write...
May 12, 2009
The Future of Roleplaying
This month’s blog carnival hosted by RoleplayingPro is about “The Future of Roleplaying”. He was kind enough to give us a couple of questions as inspiration for our posts and I will take up his...
May 12, 2009
One-page dungeon contest reminder
I am pretty sure most of you have already heard about the one-page dungeon contest held by our fellow bloggers Chgowiz and ChattyDM. But I think it’s in order to remind you that...
May 11, 2009
Dungeonslayers review @ “Here Be Gamers”
The roleplaying podcast “Here Be Gamers” has been reviewing Dungeonslayers, the game I helped translating from German to English some weeks ago. If you like listening to RPG podcasts and are still undecided,...
May 11, 2009
Ad Astra: PDQ vs. D6 1:0
Yesterday my gaming group assembled to play our first session of “Ad Astra”. Alas I wasn’t able to finish everything I wanted to have written down at that point, but we decided it...
May 10, 2009
Ad Astra Primer
Today I created an “Ad Astra Primer”, a system-less introduction to my science fiction setting. The 13-page PDF includes all of my Ad Astra posts that I already posted here and a few...
May 7, 2009
Ad Astra: Twilight Star
Although I am still in the middle of my hiatus, I want to share some more information on my Ad Astra setting. “I want this Twilight Star scum killed on sight!” – General-Emperor...
May 7, 2009
Taking a short break
I wanted to let you all know that I will take a short break from blogging. I am again at a point where I have the feeling that my creativity batteries have run...
May 4, 2009
Get “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu” for just $2 each
One of my favorite games I never played is True20 by Green Ronin. Recently I learned about two awesome new settings for that game: “Interface-Zero” and “Shadows of Cthulhu“. The first is a modern cyberpunk...
April 30, 2009
Guest post: Use Your Weaknesses
Stargazer and I chat regularly on Google Talk. He’s a pretty cool guy to talk to and our conversations almost always spur me to think about something new. Earlier this week, we were...
April 29, 2009
Ad Astra: The Psitech League
Almost as powerful as one of the major nations of the Star Ocean is the Psitech League. Without Espers interstellar travel would be impossible and the League is the largest and most influential...
April 28, 2009
Creating an old-school map in GIMP
As you probably remember, the One-Page Dungeon Contest hosted by fellow RPG bloggers ChattyDM and Chgowiz in on. Some people have already started sending in their dungeons, others (like me) are still working...
April 27, 2009