Television programs have long inspired role-playing games; we have adapted concepts from TV into games, like arcs, episodes, etc. Books on scriptwriting have been incredibly useful for me when creating adventures. This “season”...
Campaign Cartographer 3 is definitely one of the RPG tools I wish I had more time to work with. When you design your own campaign setting or even if you’re just running a...
It’s Valentine’s Day, people, the perfect opportunity to get your significant other geek a gift from DriveThruRPG. Under the motto “Geek Love Rules” they have complied a list of romance-related RPG products that...
Earlier today I purchased a copy of the Game Music Bundle including one extra copy for a friend. This extra copy I will give away for free! So what do you have to...
On the weekend I downloaded a game called “Rebuild” onto my iPad. In this game you reclaim a city one square at a time after a zombie apocalypse. The game has a few...
Earlier that week I have been coping with a nasty cold. My head felt like someone smashed it with a sledgehammer, I was freezing all the time, overall I felt awful. And don’t...
I have been roleplaying for about two decades now but there’s still one thing that causes me headaches as a GM: social conflicts. Usually when player characters act in a roleplaying game, it’s...
Ok so that title is a little misleading… I’m not planning a strange mash up entitled The Masquerade 2020, what I am working on an alternate future story for my possible Vampire the...
When you’ve followed the blog for a while you might have noticed that I am a huge fan of the Iron Kingdoms setting by Privateer Press. But I also thought that D&D 3.0/3.5...
Third Eye Games’ Eloy Lasanta just reminded me that February 2012 is the 2nd Annual Wu Xing Giveaway Month. So what does that mean? At first you get a free copy of Wu...
For those wondering why there was no post yesterday, the Stargazer is sick! Doesn’t seem to be anything life threatening (sorry guys we are not inheriting the blog just yet!). With our fearless...
Recently Cubicle 7 has reduced the prices for a lot of their products on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. You can get the excellent Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein (read my review here) for mere $10 for...
Who knew that former US President George H. W. Bush was a Game Master, and a groundbreaking pioneer at that! He spoke about points of light campaigns in 1989 almost twenty years before...
Kickstarter and similar services like IndieGoGo provide a great way of raising funds for creative projects. In the last year I’ve backed a couple of projects and all of them turned out great....
Reports that the English version of Dungeonslayers 4 is vaporware are highly exaggerated. DS 4 is alive and well and Christian Kennig has released the updated character creation as a teaser today! The...
I am a longtime fan of Star Frontiers, I’ve written about it before, and every now I then I visit the fan sites still supporting the game. Imagine my surprise when I discovered...
Back in August 2010 I wrote the following about KQ#14: Currently I play none of the games which are regularly covered by Kobold Quarterly, but so far I’ve enjoyed reading every issue I...
