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 SF and Cyberpunk with “Into the Grey”. Here’s an...
March 22, 2009
“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 SF-horror-classic “Alien” featured a group of colonial marines who...
March 20, 2009
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 less confusing than the cosmology we had before. But...
March 20, 2009
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 spots, but overall, this portends decrepitude. The entire tabletop...
March 20, 2009
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 children and even a lot of adults. Each Harry...
March 20, 2009
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 with the Warlord she played before and I wanted...
March 20, 2009
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 games which used an early version of BRP and...
March 19, 2009
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“! Recently I noticed that they are making the old...
March 19, 2009
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 that is meant to be a generic roleplaying game...
March 18, 2009
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 roleplayer decides it’s a good idea to play a...
March 18, 2009
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 for preorder. The 140-pages book will also be available...
March 18, 2009
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, one of the Final Fantasy games or Mass Effect...
March 17, 2009
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 things to try out. Of course it’s almost impossible...
March 16, 2009
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 although I got the impression that the discussion that...
March 13, 2009
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 remember that the post I wrote about 4E myths...
March 13, 2009
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 need the german PDF to run the adventure and...
March 13, 2009
“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 even a new class of spellcaster, the Arcane Pistoleer....
March 12, 2009
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