Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 2: Other games and minis too!
And we are back… Welcome to part 2 of my Gen Con retrospective. When we left our brave traveler he was in the midst of the four best days in gaming, Gen Con!...
August 16, 2011
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Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 3
When last we left our valiant adventurers, they had climbed Mt. Doom and were about to toss the Ring into the giant Volcano… wait… think that is a different story. Ah yes! Now...
August 15, 2011
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Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 1: Role Playing Games
Last time I wrote about Gen Con was a week ago as I did my first day wrap up in the wee hours of the night. Then and there I realized writing posts...
August 12, 2011
Freebie: Stars Without Number Sheets
We actually planned to bring you some belated GenCon coverage this week, but as it seems Sunglar has some serious computer problems right now. So I had to look for something cool and...
August 11, 2011
Interview: Iain Lowson
Dark Harvest – Legacy of Frankenstein really struck me by surprise. Before I found it in my mailbox I never even heard of it and it was of the best written games I’ve...
August 10, 2011
Excited about Airship Pirates
A while ago I already posted about Cubicle 7 and Abney Park’s upcoming post-apocalyptic steampunk pirate game. I have to admit I am easily excitable when it comes to roleplaying games, but c’mon,...
August 9, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 2
Last time, I talked about my plans for using L5R as our game system of choice, due to its relatively easy rules and also thematically easy to relate to premise. I also decided that we are going to be going a bit away from a purely murder, death, kill, loot style of gaming. But, when last we parted, I wasn’t exactly sure about what I would be doing with the game; this week, the game type gets narrowed down, and we move into the realm of character creation. Good stuff.
August 9, 2011
Three Years of Stargazer’s World
On August 4th Stargazer’s World has celebrated it’s third anniversary. Over the last 36 months my team and I have brought you over 1140 posts. That’s about 31 posts per month! I sincerely...
August 8, 2011
Gen Con Day 1… Results: Tired! (Lots of fun but beat)
Whatever possessed me to think I could actually write about Gen Con Indy after a full day of gaming? Well here goes a post about first impressions. I got to talk to a...
August 5, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: Our character creation session
Yesterday my new gaming group assembled for our Starblazer Adventures character creation. None of us had played FATE before, so it was an exciting experiment for all of us. As expected coming up...
August 4, 2011
My Gen Con plans…
I am really looking forward to Gen Con! I blogged about it a while ago… We are so close to that most sacred gathering of geeks in Indianapolis that I can taste it....
August 3, 2011
Starblazer Adventures: Biotics
I finally made a breakthrough in my efforts to get a Mass Effect campaign using Starblazer Adventures up and running. The biggest hurdle so far have been the biotic abilities and tech talents....
August 2, 2011
Updated Dungeonslayers website
It seems the English version of the 4th edition of the old-fashioned role-playing game Dungeonslayers is finally nearing completion and to properly celebrate this, Christian Kennig has updated the DS website accordingly: If...
August 1, 2011
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What time is it? Jade Regent time!
I just got an e-mail from Paizo promoting their upcoming Adventure Path, Jade Regent. Curiously I organized my RPGs today (part of the ongoing get the library back into a semblance of normalcy...
August 1, 2011
The One Ring: Beginnings
A couple of days ago I read that Cubicle 7 has released a video on YouTube that shows The One Ring artist Jon Hodgson in conversation with its designer Francesco Nepitello. But it...
July 31, 2011
Converting the Spouse: An Ongoing Quest – Part 1
So my friends, I come to you in the very odd position of being married to a muggle. I don’t mean the non-magical kind, but rather the non-RPG-interested kind. I got married a...
July 29, 2011
Christmas in July!
I just wanted to remind all our readers that the Christmas in July sale at DriveThruRPG is still underway. Until the end of the month you have the chance to get hundreds of...
July 28, 2011