#RPGaDay2024 Day 1 – Runes
Hello August! Also, hello, friends and readers, welcome to day 1 of #RPGaDay2024. Here we are again… This yearly tradition seems to bring me…
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What’s new with the Stargazer?
Stargazer’s World, while it is focused mostly on tabletop roleplaying games, has also always been my personal blog which I have used to share…
Heroes of Adventure
While browsing on itch.io I recently stumbled upon Heroes of Adventure, a free, rules-light, OSR-adjacent tabletop roleplaying game released under the Creative Commons Attribution…
New Player Advice: Try To Learn The Rules
Last time in the series I wrote about the “Matt Mercer” effect and the misconception that every TTRPG session has to look like an…
Kickstarter: Dimday Red TTRPG – Nodus Zine 02
A couple of days ago Spiros Drakatos reached out to me and let me know about Dimday Red, his post-apocalyptical TTRPG and the Kickstarter…
TV Series Which Could Make Great TTRPG Campaigns
Turning existing movie, book or TV show franchises into tabletop roleplaying campaigns isn’t always a great idea. In many cases the world depicted in…
What’s holding Open Legend back?
A while back I bought a used hardcover copy of Open Legend. According to its subtitle it’s an open-source RPG which is right up…
New Player Advice: Curb Your Expectations!
So you have watched a season of Critical Role (or another high profile Actual Play series by professional actors/voice actors) and now your are…
Ask The Readers: Option Paralysis
For years I have been dealing with a rather severe case of option or rather decision paralysis. As you probably know I own way…
Venezuela?!
While checking my blog’s stats, I noticed that the vast majority of readers in the last few days came from Venezuela, of all places.…
Tencent to buy D&D?
Just a few minutes ago I noticed a couple of posts on social media about a news article on the site Pandaily (which I…
We need more good player advice
A lot if not the vast majority of articles, blog posts, videos about roleplaying games are focused on giving advice to game masters. From…
Some thoughts on The Fantasy Trip
Back in 2022 I bought the “The Fantasy Trip” bundle on Bundle of Holding. Before that I have been aware of the system and…
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry
Happy New Year everyone! While looking through my posts from the last two years or so I noticed a disturbing trend: I make a…
The Stargazer’s Legacy
A while back I decided not to talk about unfinished tabletop RPG projects any more since they more often than not went up in…
ChatGPT and me
I irregularly play around with ChatGPT to help me come up with ideas or just to experiment with what it can do. Recently I…
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
D&D: Honor Among Thieves is the latest movie based on the fan-favorite tabletop roleplaying games. While the older movies were in the so-bad-its-good category…
Books, PDFs and Online Services
Back in the early days of the hobby tabletop roleplaying games came in the form of books or small booklets, sometimes as part of…
My all-time favorite roleplaying game
Over the years I have played quite a few tabletop roleplaying games and I’ve read many more, but there’s one game or rather a…
WotC’s Future VTT – A Few Thoughts
The more I read about WotC’s plans for their upcoming virtual tabletop software, the more I understand what the whole OGL 1.1 was all…