Buck Rogers XXVc: A Few Thoughts
This week I will run the third session of our Buck Rogers XXVc campaign and I think it’s time to share a few thoughts. Overall things have been running smoothly with a few...
October 25, 2016
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Garesia: Land of Broken Shackles, Part 2
Dear reader, thank you for coming back! This is part 2 (although technically it is the third post) of the Garesia campaign. This all began as an adventure that became the idea for...
October 10, 2016
Garesia: Land of Broken Shackles, Part 1
Welcome back! Building upon last Friday’s post, I plan to continue detailing the campaign I inadvertently came up with wile creating an adventure for the last geeknic. You can read all about that...
October 3, 2016
Buck Rogers XXVc: Gear Quality
Before I even knew that pen & paper RPGs existed I was a fan of computer RPGs like SSI’s Gold Box Series. My two favorite games from that series were actually the games...
October 2, 2016
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century – Character Sheet
After playing a couple of one-shots and my players yearned for a longer campaign, so I retreated into my GM cave and thought long and hard what I really wanted to run. In...
October 1, 2016
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Out of a game, a campaign!
This past Sunday, Puerto Rico Role Players held its 20th Geeknic. The name of this latest edition was: Make Geeknics Great Again! (No relation to a certain political campaign, just a joke while...
September 30, 2016
Kickstarter: Shadow, Sword & Spell
Shadow, Sword & Spell by Rogue Games is a game very dear to me. I still have fond memories of the game Zachary Houghton ran for us at GenCon 2010. Originally Richard Iorio...
September 28, 2016
Caves of Qud
Yes, this is first and foremost a pen & paper roleplaying games blog, but sometimes I just need to sneak in a post about related topics. Today I want to talk about Caves...
September 27, 2016
How I Stopped Worrying And Just Played The Game …
Sometimes being me sucks. If there’s something I am really good at then it’s worrying. I can worry about the most minor things all the time. And don’t me started on the really...
September 21, 2016
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RPG Blog Carnival: Technology in my Games
Greetings dear readers! Michael recently wrote about our efforts to revitalize the blog, and I think we’re off to a good start. He invited our readers to discuss the types of posts and...
September 20, 2016
Sons of Arcadia: an RPG made in Puerto Rico!
Gaming is alive and well in Puerto Rico! I’m not just saying that because of my involvement in Puerto Rico Role Players, but because I meet GMs and players every day, hear of...
September 19, 2016
More White Box Shenanigans
This Saturday we had to cancel or regular Titansgrave game, because three of the players couldn’t make it, so I pulled out White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game, and we quickly rolled up...
September 18, 2016
Through the Moongate
Yesterday evening I had the chance to run my first White Box game set into the world of the Ultima series, Britannia (or Sosaria as it was known before). Overall I have to...
September 16, 2016
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Sunglar’s Savage House Rules!
I first became interested in Savage Worlds when I read a reference to it in a message board. Can’t remember which one now, but I do recall the poster praised the system on...
September 16, 2016
More Prep–More Props
I am a terribly lazy GM. If possible I try not to do any prep at all and usually rely on my improvisational skills to run my games. But this had led to...
September 15, 2016
Ultima & White Box
What I want to write about today is something which started as a very small side project which eventually got a bit out of hand. Or you could say it’s still in the...
September 15, 2016
Destiny Space
Most of the roleplaying games I write about are from the English-speaking part of the world. But sometimes there are German-language roleplaying games which really stand out, so I want to talk about...
September 14, 2016