Review: Dragon Warriors
Dragon Warriors is a classic British fantasy roleplaying game that has originally been released in the mid-eighties by Corgi Books. In 2008 Magnum Opus Press released Dragon Warriors in a new edition which...
April 12, 2011
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Get 20% off of selected titles at DriveThruRPG this month
Like in the months before I can provide you with the coupon code for a 20% discount for selected titles at DriveThruRPG. This month’s code is DTRPGAprilPodBlog2011 and it’s valid for the following...
April 11, 2011
Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 1
Fellow poster, and all around nice guy, Shinobicow (who also has a really cool nick, but I digress) wrote an excellent series of posts on World Building that he shared here on the...
April 11, 2011
Someone is stealing our stuff!
I have no problems with people using the Stargazer’s World RSS feed as it is meant to be. The contents of the blog are usually licensed under CC BY-NC-SA after all. But it...
April 11, 2011
My homework for you today: try out a new game
Ok, you don’t have to do it today, but if you try out a new roleplaying game in the next six month at least, I would be very pleased. As most of you...
April 8, 2011
Ask the readers: Does not play well with others…
Over in the Paizo Blog I’ve been reading with some interest their proposed changes to the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program. I have never participated on such programs. When I began role playing I was...
April 7, 2011
Minigames in roleplaying games
Recently I have started playing Sid Meier’s Pirates! again. Pirates! is a single-player, open world game set into the Caribbean during the late 16th and early to late 17th century. You play a...
April 5, 2011
D&D4e / Fluff/Inspiration / Just my two cents / Legacy D&D / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
Inner Sea World Guide: First impressions …
This past Saturday I went down to my FLGS and got my hands on the new Pathfinder RPG campaign setting, the Inner Sea World Guide. Any casual reader of my posts will know...
April 4, 2011
A word on our Alternity April Fool’s post
On April 1st, commonly known as April Fool’s Day, we posted a fake press release claiming we had acquired the rights to Alternity from WotC to create a 2nd edition of that fine...
April 4, 2011
Exciting Alternity news!
We’ve been sitting on this for a couple of weeks, dying to share it with our readers, but we couldn’t until all the details were worked out. Now that all that is taken...
April 1, 2011
A font by any other name…
I don’t know about you, but I love collecting them. Ever since I got my first word processor I cherished the possibility of changing the font depending on the purpose of the document...
March 31, 2011
Aspects of War
Whether the Player Characters in your campaign stand for good or battle for evil, one thing will always be true. The ability to tell a story of war to your PCs. This is...
March 30, 2011
Review: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Player’s Guide
I haven’t been aware of the WHFRP Player’s Guide until I got a coupon code for a review copy in my email inbox. But I have to admit it was a pleasant surprise....
March 29, 2011
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Ask the readers: Filing off the serial numbers
If you follow me on twitter (@sunglar) or read my recent posts about Breaking the D20 Paradigm you may know I am struggling to find a system for a future sci-fi game (pun...
March 28, 2011
Lazy Friday Video Post: A Night’s Work
In the ‘90s I played a lot of Shadowrun. It has been one of my favorite games for quite a long time and even though I always struggled with the rules I have...
March 25, 2011
Adult themes in RPGs
WARNING – While this is NOT a post about Porn the RPG (imagine the stats for that game) or a review about the Book of Erotic Fantasy, it will deal with complex issues,...
March 24, 2011