In October 2011 I did my first interview with Sarah Newton, who then worked with Cubicle 7 as head of the editorial team and line developer. Since then her novel Mindjammer has been released...
Hooray! Reality Blurs’ Sean Preston posted today that the launch of the tremulus Kickstarter is only a few days away. The stars are right on August 27th! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! tremulus–a storytelling...
Some time ago I was invited to a Pathfinder game run by a friend of a friend. I wasn’t certain how things would work out; I had attempted to join a game some time...
These are the characters I used for the CONcurrent Savage Worlds game The End is Near. I meant to post it BEFORE the games (yes games, I ran in online for CONcurrent and...
This morning I stumbled upon the news that FFG has started selling the beta version of their upcoming Star Wars roleplaying game at Gen Con. Selling the beta version? Yes, that’s right. You...
Some of you might have wondered why all Mindjammer products vanished from sites like DriveThruRPG recently and why Sarah Newton’s novel had been rereleased on the Amazon Kindle store. The short answer is...
As part of the upcoming CONcurrent I’m preparing to run a Savage Worlds sci-fi game. I wrote a little introduction for the game that I mean to share with players who have confirmed...
I recently reviewed the first three installments of the Monster of Sin series from Kobold Press, formerly Open Design Games. (I like the change; the friends at Open Design are so tied to...
I’ve been fortunate enough to be contributing for this blog for two and a half years now… How time flies! Through this time I have made many new friends, had the opportunity to...
Today, we’re not going to talk about games. Well, not directly. Michael offered me the coveted opportunity to invade his space, and post whatever I wanted to to celebrate the fourth anniversary of...
Today I stumbled upon Jeff Moore’s blog Dreams and Dragons and (re)discovered his awesome rules-light RPG Five By Five. I think I have downloaded and leafed through it a while ago, but I...
It’s so damn hot that even the prices are melting at DriveThruRPG. The following products are 20% off until September 10th: Tailslap Issue 1 [Unicorn Rampant] Claw/Claw/Bite Issue 18 [Unicorn Rampant] Second World...
Yesterday night I resumed playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution after a long hiatus. As it is often the case with me and computer games I began thinking about how I could recreate the...
If you follow me over social media (and you can find out how to at the little bio at the end of this post) you might have read my gushing praise for The...
In the German roleplaying blog scene people have been posting about the ten RPGs they would take to a desert island. In my opinion that’s a fun thing to do and it provides...
The Seven Deadly Sins have a strange allure in modern society. They figure prominently not just in the religious tradition from whence they came but in popular culture. From comics, where they are...
In his article “The GM’s Influence on Character” in Kobold Quarterly #22, famous actor Monte Cook jumps right on out there and says: Past a certain point, the more influence a player has...