Gamer Media, Parody and Negative Stereotypes
For at least the past year now, a close friend and gaming partner of mine has been trying to get me to watch The Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising. I refused because of what...
September 17, 2010
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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
Ask the Readers: Keeping up with super current events!
Yesterday’s post about supers and my very personal ideas an advice on the genre have generated some very interesting comments, and got me thinking about other topics. My, Ask the Readers poll is...
May 21, 2010
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Old McWhateley had a cult… Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! – My Top 5 Lovecraftian gaming products
In keeping with the theme of Lovecraftian Week here in Stargazer’s World I want to do a series of mythos themed top five lists inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. And since...
April 27, 2010
Hacking in Cyberpunk games
As I’ve written two weeks ago I am thinking about developing a Cyberpunk game powered by my Gears system. But there’s one thing that I don’t like about most Cyberpunk games: Hacking. Usually...
April 13, 2010
Gaming In Remote Locations: The U.S. Navy
As someone who only got into Dungeons & Dragons a year ago I found it difficult to find anyone else in Juneau Alaska who had experience playing D&D. Checking the internet was little...
April 8, 2010
Gamers Help Haiti Product Bundle @ DriveThruRPG
As you probably already know, One Book Shelf, the company behind RPGNow and DrivethruRPG is raising money to help the disaster relief efforts in Haiti. The fund raising effort has been a great...
January 20, 2010
Ask The Readers: Web comics for gamers?
I’ve been a fan of “Penny Arcade” pretty much from day one, and I was overjoyed when my favorite comics from the Dragon magazine “Nodwick” and “What’s New With Phil And Dixie” made...
October 5, 2009
THEY are out there!
I was a skeptic, a non-believer until I bought Monte Cook’s latest book “The Skeptic’s Guide To Conspiracies”. At first I was enraged to see that they sold me an obviously used book....
September 29, 2009
Guide to retro-clone roleplaying games
It’s probably pretty obvious that I recently discovered the world of old-school gaming for me. In a way this new passion started with Dungeonslayers (which is actually not old-school at all) and later...
August 31, 2009
The Lost Continent Illyria
Some time ago our fellow RPGBlogger Philippine Gamer has posted about a D&D 4th Edition campaign setting a member of his gaming group, R. Velasco, created: “The Lost Continent Illyria – A Renaissance...
October 21, 2008