The ENnies and Quick-Start Rules
Yesterday’s post and similar posts on other blogs started quite a discussion in the RPG blogosphere. It even lead to the start of a small campaign to promote the two products that are...
July 15, 2009
My thoughts on the 2009 ENnie Award Nominations
The 2009 ENnie Award Nominations are live and of course everyone checks out the lists, interested to find out if his favorite game/setting/website/podcast/etc. was nominated. I was pretty happy to see a few...
July 13, 2009
First Look: Traveller Core Rulebook
Please note: This is a first look, not a proper review. I haven’t read the whole book yet and I just write about my initial thoughts. So please take everything written here with...
July 13, 2009
X-Plorers Playtest Version available
What if the fathers of roleplaying were fans of SF instead of Fantasy? That’s what David Bezio thought when he created X-Plorers. His game reads and looks like it has been created back...
July 9, 2009
A Study in Emerald
I am a great fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Yesterday I found out that Neil Gaiman has written a short story called “A Study...
July 7, 2009
Creepy!
If you need inspiration for your next horror RPG adventure, check out this video: Some of you may actually have seen this already. According to this article the creature is living in the...
July 3, 2009
OGT available at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
This morning I noticed that the “Open Game Table” is finally available at Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk! This is good news for us Europeans, since shipping from the US not only takes ages but...
July 2, 2009
Cloudship Atlantis
Cloudship Atlantis is a free steampunk RPG written by fellow RPG blogger Rob Lang as his entry to the 24h RPG Contest. Considering that this game has been designed and edited in just 24h,...
July 2, 2009
Warning! This post may cause 1D6 SAN loss!
I’ve seen quite a lot of roleplaying games in my time and I’ve even encountered a few pretty strange ones. But there’s one game that strikes fear in the heart of even the...
July 2, 2009
One-Page Dungeon Contest winners announced
Today Chgowiz and ChattyDM announced the winners of the “One Page Dungeon Contest”. 6 judges including the aforementioned RPG bloggers as well as Dave: the Game, Sham, Amityville Mike and Alex Schroeder had...
July 1, 2009
DM of the Rings
Imagine you are running a D&D campaign for your friends based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. It might look something like this: Today, while checking the latest posts on BoingBoing I...
June 30, 2009
Lost Kingdoms Campaign Setting
Michael Garcia released another freebie over at Quick & Dirty Games. This time it’s a complete campaign setting called “Lost Kingdoms”. The 8-paged PDF is licensed under a Creative Commons license and was...
June 30, 2009
Agatha Heterodyne
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I tried to come up with a Savage Worlds version of Agatha Heterodyne, the heroine from Kaja and Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius. Creating this character was actually...
June 30, 2009
Girl Genius!
This month’s blog carnival hosted by Mad Brew Labs is about Steampunk & Klokwerks. Steampunk is (as you probably know) one of my favourite genres and so it’s no surprise that I wanted...
June 29, 2009
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