Kickstarter: Feng Shui 2
There are only a few games I enjoyed more than Robin D. Laws’ Feng Shui. I only played it once and with a group of people I never played with before, but we...
September 18, 2014
RPG
Fuzion–Of unrealized Potential and being ahead of its Time
Back in 1998 I stumbled upon Fuzion, an universal roleplaying game which was available for free on the internet. This was – at least for me – something new and unexpected. Back in...
September 15, 2014
Life and Times of a German Blogger Part 2
Reports of my unfortunate demise are highly exaggerated. Aside from being pretty tired all the time I am actually quite fine. On Monday I returned to the office after being signed off work...
September 11, 2014
My Thoughts on ICv2’s 2013 Hobby Survey Results and the Top 5 RPGs Spring 2014 List
A while ago, ICv2 has released the results of their 2013 hobby survey results. According to them the gamer market has reached around $700 million at retail in the US and Canada. Surprisingly...
August 14, 2014
Life and Times of a German blogger
Since I have been pretty quiet over the last few days I wanted to give you guys a short update on what’s new with your favorite blogger. My fight with depression is going...
August 14, 2014
Q&A with Mark Reed
Yesterday I posted about Heroic Journey Publishing’s “Erinbour: Places of Power” Kickstarter. What excites me the most about the setting is two things: first it will support DwD Studios’ Barebones Fantasy, which is...
August 7, 2014
News of the World #2
In March I announced that I wanted to start an irregular column with news from all over the RPG scene. For some reason I totally forgot about this. So without further ado, here’s...
August 6, 2014
Numenera: One of the best Games I ever ran!
On Saturday six of my friends and I met to play Numenera. None of us had played the game before but we all were pretty excited about it. We all had high hopes...
August 5, 2014
Countdown to Numenera
Tomorrow I’ll run my first game of Numenera. In addition to being the first time I run this game it will be the first time that I run a game for such a...
August 1, 2014
Make Games Not War!
Since the release of the D&D Basic Rules another war is waged in the RPG community. This time it’s not about editions but about the people who helped Wizards of the Coast to...
July 31, 2014
I’ve got Numenera on my Mind
Last Friday the Fallout campaign I was running came to an end. So we started thinking about what I could run next. For a while we thought about another Fate game, perhaps even...
July 22, 2014
A new Edition is always a good Thing, isn’t it?
Everyone is talking about the new edition of D&D right now. But as usual not everyone is happy about a new edition. But isn’t a new edition a good thing? It shows that...
July 18, 2014
One Game To Rule Them All?
One question has divided players basically since the day when there was more than one roleplaying game on the market: which is the best roleplaying game? Is the new D&D better than Pathfinder?...
July 15, 2014
Ask The Readers: Shall I Give Shadowrun 5th Edition Another Chance?
Recently I had the chance to play in a Shadowrun 3rd Edition game. We initially planned to play something else, but one of the players couldn’t make it, so we decided to play...
July 14, 2014
(Almost) Back to the roots: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition
As I’ve mentioned several times before, the first roleplaying game I’ve played was TORG but the first campaign I played in was a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition one. And believe it or...
July 7, 2014
Ask The Readers / Blogging / Game Design / Mutants & Masterminds / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / RPG
Fantasy Fridays! Ask the readers, Pathfinder RPG House Rules?
Hello readers! Sorry for another skipped week RL and all that. I’m very interested in continuing my contributions to the blog with at least one post a week. Let’s do this… You’ll notice...
July 4, 2014
Lazy Wednesday Video Post: Tabletop RPG Design 101
A couple of days ago, Tim Kirk posted a very interesting video blog on game design on his YouTube channel. In the about 13 minutes long video he gives great advice to anyone...
July 2, 2014