Just Say Yes
Posted by Viriatha, the Bard of Valiant Saying yes to players is something we all know we should do, whether it be a hard…
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“Roleplaying games as a teaching tool” @ Musings of a ChattyDM
As announced some days ago, my first guest post at Philippe Ménard’s blog has gone live! Here’s a short excerpt: Some time ago, Barb,…
Follow-up: D&D 4th Edition Firearms
In last October I created some rules for simple firearms for D&D 4th Edition that are still very popular. Some days ago the reader…
Being Berin Kinsman
Yesterday I decided to have a look at Berin Kinsman’s autobiographic roleplaying game “Being Berin Kinsman”. The 45th anniversary edition is available at Lulu…
Don’t take yourself too seriously!
The ROLPUNK manifesto has – at least in my humble opinion – an underlying message: don’t take yourself to seriously, and remember it’s just…
House rules for Swords & Wizardry
One reasons why I picked up S&W was that it’s very easy to modify. In most modern games, making a small change on one…
Thrilling Noir Stories needs some more love
Some weeks ago I posted about “Thrilling Noir Stories”, my roleplaying game inspired by the film noir genre. The latest playtest version codenamed “Bogart”…
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, man!
UncleBear, father figure of RPG Bloggers has started a new movement: ROLPUNK! So, what’s this all about? Let the man speak for himself: Rolpunk…
What’s on the horizon?
Today I want to give you an update on what’s brewing at Stargazer’s World right now. Just today I finished the first draft of…
Confessions of a Gamer: Dungeon Mastering
I can’t exactly remember when I decided to run my own games as game master. When I am not mistaken I have been playing…
RPG Circus Episode 6
The latest episode of RPG Circus has been released a few days ago, but I just now managed to listen to it. As always…
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…
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…