Some Ramblings on the OSR, RIFTS, and more
A couple of years back the OSR was a mystery to me. For me it was strange that people put so much work and effort into reviving such an old game as the...
January 14, 2017
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My Gamer ADD is again in Full Swing
At the moment thousands of ideas are rushing through my head. I am looking at various roleplaying games at the same time, think about converting others, look into what’s coming up in the...
January 11, 2017
Traveller: 3rd Party Settings
Michael has already shed some light on the various incarnations of the Traveller rules. The sheer number of different versions can be somewhat overwhelming. But once you settled for a given ruleset you...
November 21, 2016
Q&A with Mark Reed
Yesterday I posted about Heroic Journey Publishing’s “Erinbour: Places of Power” Kickstarter. What excites me the most about the setting is two things: first it will support DwD Studios’ Barebones Fantasy, which is...
August 7, 2014
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Free RPG Day Debriefing
This past weekend, June 21st to be exact, I participated of Free RPG Day for the very first time. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time stores in Puerto...
June 24, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XXI
Of all the Sci-Fi Fridays! posts, this is the easiest one to write, since it was written for me. As part of the preparation for my Savage Worlds sci-fi campaign, about which you’ve...
June 6, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XVIII
As I mentioned two weeks ago, we are on the last leg of the Wanderers of the Outlands material (even if I wrote another piece of fiction for my players this week). Last...
May 16, 2014
The End of Starblazer Adventures
Cubicle 7 announced yesterday that they didn’t renew the Starblazer license and so Starblazer Adventures and Legends of Anglerre will be off the shelves at the end of the month. Starblazer Adventures had...
March 5, 2014
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Roleplaying in the world of The Elder Scrolls series
Recently I have started playing “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim” again. The fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series is one of my favorite computer games and even though some people call it “dumbed...
November 27, 2013
Fallout and Anxiety
Last Friday I ran the first session of the Fallout Fudged game I wrote about. Character creation was pretty fast even though I had to translate a couple of terms for one of...
November 11, 2013
Fallout Fudged
A while ago I had the idea to run a campaign based on the Fallout computer game series. I was actually just replaying the original Fallout computer game when I realized that it...
November 6, 2013
Kickstarter: Achtung! Cthulhu – Assault on the Mountains of Madness Confirmed!
On the weekend I received a press release by Modiphius that I just have to share with you guys. As I’ve said before I’m very excited about their current Kickstarter campaign. Combining WW2...
March 11, 2013
Review: Iron Kingdoms Core Rules
Back in 2008 I lamented the lack of Privateer Press’ support for the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying game and hoped that “Privateer Press will surprise us with their brand-new IK roleplaying game that perhaps...
September 11, 2012
Sandbox games: A collection of links
When I had the idea of running a sandbox game I did some research first. Especially when you try a new game or a new style of GMing things can go terribly wrong...
January 19, 2012
First Look: Anima Prime
Yesterday night I was browsing RPGNow in hopes of finding an interesting RPG I haven’t heard about yet. With thousands of titles on the site, it’s actually pretty easy to find stuff I...
October 20, 2011
Gen Con 2011, a retrospective… Part 3: On to other stuff…
So we’ve covered role-playing games (and I missed a couple of things but I’ll get to that in my next post), other games and minis, but there is so much more to do...
August 22, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Writing posts
Writing posts is actually the hardest part of running any blog. Everything else up to this point was mostly theoretical or technical stuff, but now we come to what really makes a blog....
April 20, 2011