Ask The Readers: Running a Ultima campaign in S&W
Inspired by Chgowiz’s Siege Perilous project I am tempted to run my own Ultima campaign using Swords & Wizardry rules. Alas he only covered…
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My stance on D&D 4th Edition
When you read some of my older post you’ll notice that I praised D&D 4th Edition on numerous occasions and recently I have become…
Why play old-school D&D?
If you haven’t been living under a rock for quite some time, you probably noticed a growing trend in the RPG hobby: OD&D is…
Fantasy Craft
It all started with the Fantasy Craft preview PDF. While I was paging through it, my girlfriend was sitting next to me, and when…
Guide to retro-clone roleplaying games
It’s probably pretty obvious that I recently discovered the world of old-school gaming for me. In a way this new passion started with Dungeonslayers…
Adventure Games as inspiration for RPG campaigns
There’s an interesting post about using the classic Lucasarts adventure game “Full Throttle” into a Cyberpunk 2020 campaign over at the German CP2020 blog.…
Ask The Readers: What is your favorite D&D retro-clone and why?
I have never played the original D&D from 1974 or any other version of D&D before AD&D 2nd Edition. But then the release of…
Interview with David Bezio
It’s great to read reviews and explore the stuff that someone has written but I always found it even more interesting to get to…
WHFRP 3rd Edition Seminar by Jay Little
Yesterday I learned about this video seminar and headed over to the FFG site to watch it. It consists of five videos each about…
Open Game Table now available as PDF
Yesterday Jonathan Jacobs, editor of “Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1”, and co-founder of Nevermet Press has let us…
Eclipse Phase available at RPGNow
Yesterday I was browsing RPGNow for some free stuff, when I discovered that the PDF version of Eclipse Phase is already available for purchase.…
X-plorers solo game
This weekend I wanted to give X-plorers a try, but alas aside from my girlfriend noone was around to play, so we decided to…
First Look: X-plorers
X-plorers is a new roleplaying game by David Bezio’s Grey Area Games. But although its brand-new you could easily mistake it for a game…
New Battletech RPG on the horizon
Some time ago, someone mentioned a Battletech RPG on Twitter, I believe it was my fellow RPG Blogger Chgowiz. But after the IMHO horrible…
OpenD6 beta coming soon
It seems the beta test of the OpenD6 website is just a few days to weeks away. As the developer of the software that…
Upcoming games I am excited about
I believe in a couple of post I came across much like a grumpy grognard who attacks everything new and is clinging to the…
Confessions of a Gamer: In the Beginning
In the recent post about Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay I revealed a few facts about my gaming history including that WHFRP was probably the game…
Follow-up on my Warhammer FRP 3rd Edition rant
I have to admit that in my last post about that topic I was really ranting and raving. The original WHFRP was probably the…
There’s more to the OGL than d20 (Paizo Edition)
Recently I wrote about the various games that have been released under the OGL and for which a system reference document is available. A…
Automata
A lot of RPG fans love Penny Arcade and I am no exception. Recently the first chapter of “Automata” has been completed. What I…