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Get your copy of OGT now!
The Open Game Table is finally available from Amazon and Lulu for just $22.95! It will also be available from Indie Press Revolutions soon. The 140-page book is…
Roleplaying music: Into the Grey
Erdenstern has recently announced the release of their sixth album of their “Into the …” series. This time they venture into the worlds of…
“Game over, man”
That’s probably one of the most well known quotes from the movie Aliens, one of my personal favorite SF movies. The sequel of the…
And I thought D&D 4th Edition cosmology was less complicated than this…
Today’s Penny Arcade comic is about the cosmology of D&D 4th Edition and if you ask me this version is much more accessible and…
Internet killed the Table Top Star
Allen Varney has written an interesting article about how the internet affects our roleplaying hobby. Here’s an excerpt from his post: There are bright…
Why is there no Harry Potter RPG?
Harry Potter has been a great success. Author Joanne K. Rowling created a series of books that has rekindled the love for books in many…
Avenger or Bard? What class should I play?
For our D&D 4th Edition game on Saturday we decided to create new characters using classes from the PHB2. My girlfriend was pretty unhappy…
BRP, GORE and RQ
A what and a what and a what? BRP is the Basic Roleplaying game I wrote about yesterday, RQ is RuneQuest (one of the…
What’s New With Phil & Dixie
Do you remember that great comic from the Dragon Magazine by Phil Folglio? Yes, I am talking about “What’s New With Phil & Dixie“!…
Basic Roleplaying
If you ever played Call of Cthulhu or RuneQuest you know Basic Roleplaying, the Chaosium Roleplaying System. Recently Chaosium released a generic BRP book…
Gender bender – or why I don’t like when men try to play women in roleplaying games
In MMOs the majority of female characters is played by male players. That’s a fact. And once in a while a while a male…
Quick reminder: OPEN GAME TABLE available for preorder at amazon.com
I just wanted to remind everyone that the upcoming “OPEN GAME TABLE: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1” is now available at amazon.com…
Converting videogames to the gaming table
Video games can be great sources for inspiration. Everyone who played games like the classic Ultima series, the Elder Scroll series, the Fallout series,…
When in doubt, run a one-shot!
I am definately not a one-system person and when I run adventures in a setting for too long I tend to look for new…
The way it’s meant to be played
Recently a lot of bloggers all over the network started to write about old-school gaming and how it differs from newer gaming styles. And…
D&D 4th Edition without miniatures
When D&D 4th Edition was new, one of the first complaints was that it turned D&D into a miniature game. I disagreed and I…
Dungeonslayers: The Thieves of Lyrkenfenn
Today one of the new members of the english Dungeonslayers community called ur_hekau has posted an translation of the first Dungeon2Go adventure. You still…
“Feuerwerk” released
Today the second supplement for Dungeonslayers has been released. “Feuerwerk” is a 6-page PDF which include rules for firearms, bombs, cannons, firearms accessories and…
What class are you?
Wizards obviously has a new quiz that allows you to determine which class suits you best. And it seems I would make a good…