D&D4e January 11, 2011 • 6 min read Fortune Cards, my two cents… There’s been a storm in the Twitterverse and the Blogosphere, a storm of FORTUNE! (Fate would have sounded much cooler, thanks designers at WotC…
News & Reviews January 11, 2011 • 2 min read Midgard Recently Open Design LLC has started Midgard, their most ambitious Open Design project ever. Wolfgang Baur, Brandon Hodge and Jeff Grubb are co-authors of…
Advice January 10, 2011 • 3 min read Bridging the Gap There is a lot of animosity between the old-school and new-school gaming groups. A lot of this I think is unnecessary. I mentioned briefly…
Advice January 7, 2011 • 3 min read World Building Part 4 – Campaign Setting Genre Last week, I took a short break from this series because of travel and the holidays, but I am back this week to talk…
Random musings January 6, 2011 • 2 min read Wile E. Coyote at your service! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius. I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through…
Advice January 5, 2011 • 2 min read [Horror] Take Your World and Break It One of the most powerful ways to run a modern day horror campaign is to take the familiar and start blending in a little…
Fluff/Inspiration January 4, 2011 • 5 min read What about the GameMastery Plot Twist Cards? A review… (And slight ramble!) With such a convoluted title to this post, I better make some sense out of this! What is this post? First and foremost a…
Random musings January 3, 2011 • 3 min read Gaming-related plans for 2011 … and a look back at 2010 Last year I posted a long list with things I wanted to do in 2010. And as expected I didn’t actually reach all the…
Advice December 31, 2010 • 4 min read World Building Part 3 – Getting Started with World Tone Last time, we talked about making sure to keep it at least a little bit “old school” when it comes to world building by…
Ask The Readers December 30, 2010 • 3 min read Ask the Readers: Do you know of any gaming supplements where Puerto Rico is mentioned? This is a purely personal question, but I figure with the worldly and well read audience of this blog (flattery goes a long way,…
Ask The Readers December 29, 2010 • 5 min read Post Christmas Gaming Loot! I’m currently on holiday (I love using that term, I feel so refined!) in central Florida, and despite having tickets to various parks the…
Just my two cents December 28, 2010 • 4 min read What about Advanced Feats: The Cavalier’s Creed? A review… Ok let me say it outright, I love the cover! After complaining about previous covers in the Advanced Feats series, with the exception of…
Ask The Readers December 27, 2010 • 2 min read The wonderful world of gaming! I was too young to see the original Wonderful World of Disney on TV. I did catch reruns on local TV, in Spanish too,…
Blogging December 24, 2010 • 2 min read Happy Holidays from Stargazer’s World! Michael asked me to write a holiday message for the blog and I was happy to oblige, in fact I was honored! This blog…
Advice December 23, 2010 • 5 min read New game, new tools! This past weekend I began a new campaign. We reached a natural lull in the ongoing Pathfinder RPG campaign, which has run for 65…
Blogging December 23, 2010 • 1 min read Greetings from the Philippine Gamer Hey guys! Pointyman2000 here from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer here reporting in as a contributor to Stargazer’s World. I’ve been gaming…
D&D4e December 22, 2010 • 5 min read Revisiting the new D&D comic book I hate being wrong, but not this time! Let me elaborate… I wrote a previous post about the new Dungeons & Dragons comic published…
Just my two cents December 21, 2010 • 4 min read What about In the Company of Minotaurs? A review… “I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness. Such accusations (for which I shall exact punishment in due…
Advice December 20, 2010 • 4 min read World Building Part 2 – First Things First So, you have officially decided that you are no longer satisfied with the many worlds that exist for role-playing and that you want to…
Just my two cents December 17, 2010 • 2 min read The Pathfinder Role Playing Game Reference Document UPDATE! My love for Pathfinder is well known around these parts. It is my poison of choice for fantasy gaming and the rule system I…