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 I enjoyed it very much and a highlight of...
September 7, 2009
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 the early parts of the series (Ultima I –...
September 4, 2009
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 more of a critic. For quite some time I...
September 3, 2009
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 back with a vengeance. Ok, in most cases it’s...
September 2, 2009
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 we reached the section about Drakes, she exclaimed: “We...
September 2, 2009
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 (which is actually not old-school at all) and later...
August 31, 2009
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. If you speak German or aren’t afraid to use...
August 31, 2009
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 several D&D retro-clones allowed me to explore what people...
August 28, 2009
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 know the persons behind the games. That’s why I...
August 27, 2009
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 5 mins in length in which Jay Little, Senior...
August 26, 2009
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 know that the OGT is now finally available as...
August 25, 2009
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. Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game of conspiracy...
August 24, 2009
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 run the mission in the back of the book...
August 24, 2009
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 from the 70s. And I mean that in a...
August 21, 2009
Bye, bye, Odiogo!
Some of you may have noticed that I removed the Odiogo plugin from my blog. It added those buttons that allowed you to listen to an audio version of the post read by...
August 20, 2009
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 Mechwarrior 3rd Edition, I had pretty much lost interest...
August 20, 2009
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 will power the OpenD6 site wrote on the WEG...
August 20, 2009
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