A first look at the Unity RPG–Part One
Unity is a roleplaying game by Zensara Studios distributed by Modiphius which was crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in 2016. I really haven’t had it on my radar until Panny from Modiphius asked me...
May 10, 2019
RPG
Kickstarter: “Making History: Three One-Session RPGs”
Back in 2010, about a month after I finished writing WR&M I visited GenCon in Indianapolis. There a fellow RPG fan called Tristan Zimmerman did an interview with me for his RPG podcast....
May 7, 2019
Recommendation: Kestrel Investigates
I guess Monday is a good day for off-topic posts. But what I am about to share with you, is just too awesome. I recently stumbled upon a web series called “Kestrel Investigates”...
May 6, 2019
Alien RPG coming from Free League
It’s no secret that I love everything Free League Publishing (aka Fria Ligan) has released so far. Mutant: Year Zero (see my review here) is definitely my favorite game at the monent (including...
April 29, 2019
Sagas of Midgard
I am lucky enough that in my day job I both work from home and work entirely online. What this means is that I could be pretty much anywhere in the world as...
April 22, 2019
Kickstarter: Odyssey of the Dragonlords
Modiphius is more active than ever. I just heard from their PR assistant Panny that they just recently started another Kickstarter project which has been funded in its first 24 hours. They are...
April 17, 2019
James Albert Smith Jr (1968–2019)
On April 10th James Smith known for his OSR blog Dreams of Mythic Fantasy passed away. I didn’t really know him, but I’ve read his blog from time to time. Regardless it always...
April 17, 2019
John Carter of Mars Live Play
I don’t actually remember when I first learned about Edgar Rice Burrough’s series of books about a civil war veteran from Virginia who suddenly finds himself on Mars, but I immediately fell in...
April 16, 2019
Escape The Noose, A Zweihänder Adventure
ESCAPE THE NOOSE is a Zweihänder adventure from Nights of the Shed that makes full use of the Main Gauche [MG] supplement. The booklet does say that you may want to use Main...
April 14, 2019
Ballad of the Pistolero
A friend of mine has, completely by chance, been working on a Wild West RPG called Ballad of the Pistolero. I say completely by chance because the topic only came up when I...
April 12, 2019
Kickstarter: RPG Smith
This is just a quick update to let you folks know that the Kickstarter campaign to fund the RPGSmith (check out my article about it) GM features is now live. They need about...
March 25, 2019
Easy NPC Reactions
Michael recently posted about the 3hex style of starting a game off easily with minimal prep. I thought I would share a technique that makes for interesting and sophisticated ‘common’ NPCs but without...
March 23, 2019
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RPGSmith
A couple of days ago, David Sumner, co-founder of RPGSmith got in touch with me and told me about his free web application. RPGSmith is – in a nutshell – an interactive character...
March 19, 2019
All good things come in Threes…
If you have followed my blog for a while you surely must have noticed that there’s a certain white whale I am hunting for years now: an old-school D&D sandbox campaign. I’ve made...
March 15, 2019
Podcast Recommendation: The Dungeon Master’s Handbook
This is a quick follow-up to my last post. I got in touch with Michael Shorten aka ChicagoWiz and asked him for advice on how to run old-school sandbox games. He pointed me...
March 14, 2019