Get your Free RPG Day swag today!
As you you may already know last Saturday was Free RPG Day. Alas not all of us had the opportunity to go to a participating FLGS to pick up some nice freebies, socialize...
June 24, 2011
Technoir Dice Mechanics
I have no idea how I could have missed this, but Jeremy Keller actually recorded a short video that gives an overview of how the dice mechanics of Technoir work. If you’re interested...
June 24, 2011
Tag Team Review: Battlelords of the Twenty-Third Century
Battlelords of the 23rd Century is one of the game I always wanted to check out back in the 1990s. The name alone aroused my interest in that game, but alas I was...
June 23, 2011
Savage (Worlds) Excitement!
Around these parts the big proponent of Savage Worlds has always been Michael. I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I discovered this blog doing a Google search for information about...
June 23, 2011
Gaming Disappointments: “Perry Rhodan – Das Rollenspiel”
With the majority of games I bought over the years I was quite happy with. Of course not every game was up to my expectations but in most I didn’t feel totally disappointed....
June 22, 2011
My gift to the Fudge community
As I mentioned a while ago I had some plans to run a Fudge Day event this year. Alas several things went wrong and so this never happened. So I was looking for...
June 21, 2011
What about The Complete Advanced Feats? A review…
When I read the author’s preface to The Complete Advanced Feats by Sigfried Trent and the author said that the compilation and publication in print was borne of the request of fans I...
June 21, 2011
Kickstarter: Age Past
It seems more and more small-press publishers are jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon. Jeff Mechlinski is a game designer from Batltimore, who is currently raising funds for his game “Age Past” on Kickstarter....
June 20, 2011
Airship Pirates preview
I was really surprised when I read on the German blog Rollenspiel Almanach that there’s already a PDF preview of Abney Park’s Airship Pirates RPG. When I first heard about the game, I...
June 20, 2011
Privateer Press announces Iron Kingdoms RPG
Yesterday Privateer Press finally announced an Iron Kingdoms Roleplaying Game. As already guessed by many fans and hinted at in an interview some time ago, it will share mechanical similarities with both the...
June 20, 2011
Gen Con here I go!
I realize it maybe a little premature to be so excited about it, Gen Con Indy is still over a month and a half away, but I feel like a kid the night...
June 17, 2011
Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about Faces of the Tarnished Souk: The Ghost Light That Dreamed, Gozutozawa? A review…
With a name that long, that title pretty much takes care of the review. It’s certainly a mouthful! This is a short book in PDF format detailing one of the many strange inhabitants...
June 16, 2011
“This Just In … From Gen Con” needs your help
Gen Con Indy is a quite expensive event and also a lot of work if you want to cover it on a blog or podcast. So it’s great that even if you don’t...
June 16, 2011
The sword is mightier than the laser gun – or is it?
My love for everything SF started back when I was still in elementary school. For a while I had been admiring the silver hardcover books with those fancy covers that my father had...
June 15, 2011
Fun with Photofunia
On the German RPG Blog “Cthulhu’s Ruf” I read about Photofunia, a service that allows you to apply all kinds of interesting effects onto your portrait photos. Aside from being a perfect time...
June 15, 2011
Support the Stargazer!
Some of you may already have noticed that I added a new widget to the right sidebar of the blog titled “Support the Stargazer!”. The widget contains links to my Amazon wishlists (on...
June 14, 2011
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