Review: Coriolis–The Third Horizon
It’s no secret that I enjoyed Fria Ligan’s (aka Free League) Mutant: Year Zero. This game came to me as a total surprise and when I finally got my hands on it, I...
July 17, 2017
Games I’m excited about: Genesys
Fantasy Flight Games recently announced a new genre-agnostic roleplaying game powered by the Narrative Dice System, which is of course the system used in their popular Star Wars roleplaying games. I’ve been playing Edge...
July 12, 2017
5 Reasons Why You Should Get The New Star Trek Adventures RPG
A couple of days ago Modiphius released their eagerly-awaited Star Trek roleplaying game. Star Trek Adventures is the latest game in the long line of Star Trek games which have been pretty much...
July 10, 2017
Taking another break
The roleplaying games hobby can be pretty frustrating at times, especially if you’re a game master. One issue I’ve had all my life is that I quickly burn out on the games I...
June 28, 2017
Still alive …
Usually I avoid this kind of posts, but since I haven’t really written anything since May, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to send a few life signs… In May I returned to work...
June 21, 2017
New Traveller Starter Set
Sometimes I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of the people working at Mongoose. Recently they released the digital version of a Starter Set for their 2nd Edition Traveller game –...
May 31, 2017
[Kickstarter] The Veil: Cascade
Cyberpunk is definitely one of my favorite genres. So I am always quite excited when a new cyberpunk game gets released or is being kickstarted. For some reason I totally missed “The Veil”...
May 23, 2017
Interview with Marc Miller
If you are a fan of science fiction roleplaying games, then you probably know of Marc Miller. Back in the late 1970s he designed Traveller, which is without doubt one of the most well-loved...
May 15, 2017
Kickstarter – Archive: Historical People, Places, and Events for RPGs
Recently Tristran Zimmermann got in touch with me and let me know about his awesome new Kickstarter project: “Archive: Historical People, Places, and Events for RPGs”. The book is already written, laid out...
May 2, 2017
The New Alternity Game: An Interview with Richard Baker
I’ve talked about Alternity here in the blog before. Both Stargazer and myself are fans, and have posted about it numerous times. We even had an April’s Fool post back in 2011 about...
April 17, 2017
Interview: Modiphius
Back when the new Conan RPG by Modiphius was released I contacted Chris Birch and asked him if he was interested in doing another interview with us. Here’s what Chris and Sam Webb,...
April 7, 2017
Video: Why Traveller Leads the Pack of SF RPGs
Today I’ve stumbled upon a YouTube video by the Complex Games Apologist which I wanted to share with you. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxdIPzwcWmE You definitely should also check out his other videos.
April 5, 2017
Interview: Greg Saunders
About a week ago I wrote about Greg Saunders’ Exilium Kickstarter. Since I was interested in learning more about his new game and the man himself, I asked him to answer a couple...
April 4, 2017
Traveller: No Hero’s Journey
During the preparation of my upcoming Traveller campaign I realized something about Traveller: it’s different in one important aspect from most other roleplaying game. Characters don’t get new abilities over time. There’s no...
March 29, 2017
Kickstarter: Exilium–An Open D6 SF RPG
Today Greg Saunders, the designer of “In Flames” contacted me. He is currently trying to fund “Exilium” which is a reimagining of the aforementioned “In Flames” RPG. So what is Exilium all about?...
March 28, 2017
In My Traveller Universe
The work on my version of the Traveller universe continues. Initially I planned to create a subsector from scratch and place it at the edges of an empire which was in the process...
March 27, 2017
Desde la Fosa! A new project for Sunglar
Hello dear reader… Fret not about the title, I’m not quitting this blog (even if by my infrequent posting some of you suspected I already did), Michael is not getting rid of me...
March 22, 2017
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