Gaming In Remote Locations: Juneau Alaska
A little over 4 years ago I moved to Juneau Alaska. I was leaving behind Seattle Washington for a better job. I went from living in a city with a population of around...
March 30, 2010
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Cheap battlemats!
For the longest time I gamed without minis or a battlemat. Despite beginning to play AD&D with 1st edition, I never had a war gaming background and for the longest time my combats...
March 30, 2010
Dresden Files RPG: Nevermore
This news is already a couple of days old, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to post this here: Recently Evil Hat Productions has made the whole 39-paged Baltimore chapter of the upcoming...
March 29, 2010
Traveling for Inspiration
Travels, short and long, have often inspired me, both as topics for writing fiction (something I enjoy and don’t do enough of) and gaming. Over the last fourteen years I’ve traveled all across...
March 29, 2010
Apple’s new iPad and RPGs
I have to admit I am very excited about Apple’s upcoming iPad. In my opinion it closes the gap between smartphones and notebooks, could be a perfect alternative to ebook readers like the...
March 29, 2010
Why do I design games?
In the past people have asked me, why I bother to write games? There a already hundreds of roleplaying games out there and since I don’t intent to sell them and make some...
March 26, 2010
Freebie: Old-School Fantasy Character Pack
You might remember my recent review about Reality Blurs’ new old-school fantasy adventure “A Keg for Dragon”. Yesterday they released a couple of pregenerated characters that you can use for that adventure or...
March 26, 2010
Roleplaying Poetry
I am usually no fan of poetry, but this is so awesome: The Gamer Once inside a game store dreary, while I pondered, obese and bleary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
March 25, 2010
Ask the Readers: Where do you buy your RPG products?
That’s something that interested me for quite some time, where do you buy your roleplaying games, supplement, dice, battlemats etc.? Back in the day I bought everything at a small game shop in...
March 24, 2010
Ed Healy interviewed ChattyDM
Earlier today Ed Healy tweeted about his interview with my good friend Philippe-Antoine Ménard aka ChattyDM. They not only talk about roleplaying games but also about Philippe’s teaching, politics and more. You definitely...
March 24, 2010
The worst session I’ve ever played (or Gaming with Strangers)!
The first time I ever played an RPG with a total stranger was a disaster, and it turned me off from gaming with strangers for years. Let me give you some context. By...
March 22, 2010
Freebie: Warrior, Rogue & Mage
Yesterday around 10pm local time I had an idea for a rule-light fantasy RPG with some old-school feel to it. The result is “Warrior, Rogue & Mage” a four-paged PDF containing complete rules...
March 22, 2010
Lazy Friday Video Post: “Making the Most of Mythic Structure”
This time I want to share a video from the Neoncon 2009 GamesU with you. In this 51-minutes video Matthew Grau from WildFire LLC talks about the monomyth (aka the hero’s journey) and...
March 19, 2010
The Secret of my Success…
Like a mailroom clerk with dreams of greatness, of getting that corner office with a view, I too picked up a gaming book long ago and embarked on this journey we call role...
March 19, 2010
Secret dice rolls
When I remember correctly I’ve always rolled behind the GM screen when I was running a game. My first GM did the same, as did most GMs I met in my life. Recently...
March 18, 2010
Our first RPG pub meeting was a success!
Some time ago, I wrote about the plans to organize a regular, RPG-themed pub meeting. Yesterday we finally had our first meeting and it was a great success. More people than we anticipated...
March 17, 2010
Posts from Stargazer’s World will be included in OGT2
I have known this for some time now, but I wanted to wait with this announcement, to give Jonathan Jacobs the chance to post it first: Several of my articles written for Stargazer’s...
March 17, 2010