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 is a traditional look at myself and my current...
July 11, 2010
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 came up for sale in RPGNow I was thrilled....
July 9, 2010
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 rules light RPG to play? Look no further than...
July 9, 2010
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 produced back in the day? In most cases, the...
July 8, 2010
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 Lord community, has recently started releasing his works on...
July 8, 2010
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 abandon Earth. The book itself also had a quite...
July 7, 2010
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 products! This time the coupon is good for the...
July 7, 2010
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 want to have a look at two books that...
July 6, 2010
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 just to this. The newly released (and excellent by...
July 6, 2010
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 into a dystopian future. A minority of the population...
July 5, 2010
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 Spiele GmbH, which is known as the publisher of...
July 5, 2010
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 game shop. According to fellow blogger Moritz Mehlem, Roland...
July 5, 2010
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 Earth got used up, and we found a new...
July 2, 2010
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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 that I spent all day daydreaming about it. To...
July 2, 2010
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 have one PDF copy of Reality Blurs’ excellent “Realms...
July 1, 2010
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. It became increasingly difficult to track how high up...
June 30, 2010
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 called Hero Factory (Fábrica de Heroís). On that post...
June 29, 2010
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