Taking a few days off
I’m currently enjoying a couple of days off work. I’m pretty busy meeting friends, playing games, sleeping till noon, and various other activities, so…
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Freebie: Secrets of the Ancients for Traveller
While reading up on the Ancients on various Traveller forums and wikis I discovered that Mongoose Publishing is giving away the whole “Secrets of…
When You Realize that You’re the Baddy
I have always been interested in history and I always found it quite intriguing to play in historic roleplaying games. So it was of…
I’ve Got Traveller On My Mind
For years I wanted to run a proper SciFi game. I’ve made plans for Stars Without Number, but the project never made it to…
First Look: Corporia
Today I was contacted by Mark Plemmons, designer of the urban fantasy RPG Corporia. He’s a fan of my blog and wanted me to…
1st Kellercon in Limburg
Yesterday the first Kellercon has taken place in Limburg, Germany. We chose the name Kellercon because the location was the Villa Konthor, a local…
My thoughts on “Chess is not an RPG”
Today I stumbled upon a blog post by John Wick about game balance, social skills, weapon lists etc. If you haven’t read it yet,…
Traveller without Aliens?
I am not sure if I already wrote on the blog about it, but I have been playing Traveller for several months now. Initially…
More Thoughts on the Cypher System
Over the last few weeks I have posted several times about Numenera and praised the so-called Cypher system which powers the game. The same…
Mental Health in Roleplaying Games
Because of my personal and professional experience I know quite a lot about mental health issues. As you may well know I suffer from…
Why do we play Roleplaying Games?
If you’ve followed discussions between roleplayers, read blogs, and played in different groups over the years, you’ve probably noticed that there are various approaches to…
How to deal with “That Guy” or do we need a Social Contract?
During the years I have been active in the RPG scene (offline and online) the topic of “social contracts” has come up from time…
Kickstarter: Feng Shui 2
There are only a few games I enjoyed more than Robin D. Laws’ Feng Shui. I only played it once and with a group…
Fuzion–Of unrealized Potential and being ahead of its Time
Back in 1998 I stumbled upon Fuzion, an universal roleplaying game which was available for free on the internet. This was – at least…
Life and Times of a German Blogger Part 2
Reports of my unfortunate demise are highly exaggerated. Aside from being pretty tired all the time I am actually quite fine. On Monday I…
D&D 5th Edition is much better than I anticipated
When I had a look at the first public playtest documents Wizards of the Coast released of then-called “D&D Next” I was cautiously optimistic.…
My Thoughts on ICv2’s 2013 Hobby Survey Results and the Top 5 RPGs Spring 2014 List
A while ago, ICv2 has released the results of their 2013 hobby survey results. According to them the gamer market has reached around $700…
Life and Times of a German blogger
Since I have been pretty quiet over the last few days I wanted to give you guys a short update on what’s new with…
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…
News of the World #2
In March I announced that I wanted to start an irregular column with news from all over the RPG scene. For some reason I…