Just my two cents July 13, 2010 • 2 min read What about SORD? A (short) review… Some days ago I wrote about game master screens and readers correctly pointed out that even if I don’t use a traditional screen, when I…
GenCon July 12, 2010 • 3 min read My GenCon Schedule Recently Zachary Houghton posted his GenCon schedule. I think this is a great idea, because so you a) know where you find him, if…
Fantasy Craft July 12, 2010 • 2 min read Video Review: Fantasy Craft On the weekend I finally sat down and tried to record a video review of Fantasy Craft. I am using the word “try” because…
Guest Post July 11, 2010 • 4 min read The Worldsmith’s Introduction Greetings to you all, as this is my first post on Stargazer’s World as a guest blogger I thought a nice place to start…
Just my two cents July 9, 2010 • 3 min read What about the ICONS Character Folio? A review… I am a confessed ICONS fan, you can see my review and various character write ups (here, here and here), so when new products…
Freebies July 9, 2010 • 1 min read Free Stuff Friday: Risus It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: Risus Looking for a quick and easy…
Legacy D&D July 8, 2010 • 2 min read Is the OSR mainly driven by nostalgia? I am not sure what got me thinking but recently I asked myself why all the retro clones have to look like they were…
Legacy D&D July 8, 2010 • 3 min read Soapbox Games Reviews Moritz Mehlem, a German old-school advocate who is pretty well known for his blog “Von der Seifenkiste herab” and his involvement in the Labyrinth…
Call of Cthulhu July 7, 2010 • 4 min read Review: End Time Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere’s End Time is a dark vision of the future, a world where the stars where right and humanity had to…
Site News July 7, 2010 • 1 min read RPGNow/DriveThruRPG discounts for July Like last months readers of blogs participating in One Book Shelf’s blog support program get a 20% discount on a large number of PDF…
Call of Cthulhu July 6, 2010 • 2 min read Review: Cthulhu Rising Usually Call of Cthulhu games are set into the 1920s, the Victorian age or modern times. But there are some exceptions. This week I…
Fluff/Inspiration July 6, 2010 • 9 min read Other sources of inspiration for RPGs: Comics It’s easy to list off the inspiration and influences from literature and movies on role playing games. Historically there are lists and appendixes dedicated…
News & Reviews July 5, 2010 • 3 min read Review: Hounds of G.O.D. Hounds of G.O.D. by Adam J. Weber Games is a 40-paged roleplaying game which is crammed full of awesomeness. Hounds of G.O.D. is set…
News & Reviews July 5, 2010 • 1 min read Ulisses Spiele GmbH now owns TORG According to a post on the West End Game fan forums, WEG’s Eric Gibson sold the rights to TORG to the German company Ulisses…
News & Reviews July 5, 2010 • 1 min read Open Game Table now available at Sphärenmeisters Spiele This will probably interest my German readers: The Open Game Table Vol. 1 is now available for 19.95€ at Sphärenmeisters Spiele, my favorite online…
Advice July 2, 2010 • 1 min read Free Stuff Friday – Firefly RPG It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: Firefly RPG Here’s How It Is… The…
D&D4e July 2, 2010 • 4 min read My Orcus & Me! Today I got my Orcus, Prince of Undeath Gargantuan Figure. I was so excited to get the news that my FLGS had received it…
Contest July 1, 2010 • 2 min read Realms of Cthulhu Giveaway Contest UPDATE: The contest is now closed. The winner will announced next week! I promised you another giveaway contest and here it is! I still…
Advice June 30, 2010 • 1 min read Combat Tiers Review Recently I ran into an issue with my weekly D&D game. My players where trying to attack a dragon while it was flying away.…
Fluff/Inspiration June 29, 2010 • 7 min read Your daily dose of ICONS! Some time ago, when I was just getting on this superhero bandwagon I wrote a post about supers, including a tool to illustrate characters…