Preview: Cypher System Rulebook
Recently a couple of fellow bloggers had the opportunity to look at Monte Cook Games upcoming Cypher System Rulebook. Since I wasn’t among the lucky ones, I got in touch with Shanna Germain...
June 29, 2015
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Three Upcoming Games I’m Excited about
Although I already own quite a few roleplaying games (I stopped counting a while ago), I am usually excited about at least one or two upcoming games. At the moment there are three...
June 15, 2015
RPG Blogging 101
Back in 2011 I wrote a series of posts about how to set up and run your own RPG blog. I guess most of my advice is still valid or at least a...
April 28, 2015
The RPGBA is Dead! Long Live The RPGBA!
A couple of years ago, Jeff Brissette and me (actually mostly Jeff), started the RPG Blog Alliance as an alternative to the RPG Bloggers Network. The latter used a pretty outdated and ill-fitting...
April 28, 2015
Review: Mutant Year Zero
Mutant Year Zero is one of the games that took me completely by surprise. I faintly remember that I read that Modiphius was running a Kickstarter project for the game, but I for...
February 9, 2015
My Gift to the WR&M Community
Recently a couple of people from the Stargazer’s World Google+ Community have started compiling new and old material for Warrior, Rogue & Mage and its derivatives. In order to help the community to...
January 21, 2015
Happy New Year!
I wish all my friends and followers a happy new year 2015! From a personal standpoint 2014 was a pretty bad year for me. My depressions have been worse than ever. But luckily...
January 4, 2015
What are RPGs? And is our hobby really dying?
I know, that’s a controversial topic and a lot of subjectivity is involved in the discussion. If you ask ten pen & paper roleplaying games fans you’ll probably get at least a dozen...
December 5, 2014
My Two Cents on #Gamergate
I actually didn’t want to write about this subject on the blog. But there’s a saying that the evil ones can only prevail if the good guys do nothing. And since I consider...
October 28, 2014
I’ve Got Traveller On My Mind
For years I wanted to run a proper SciFi game. I’ve made plans for Stars Without Number, but the project never made it to the game table. I tried to write a complete...
October 8, 2014
Kickstarter: Feng Shui 2
There are only a few games I enjoyed more than Robin D. Laws’ Feng Shui. I only played it once and with a group of people I never played with before, but we...
September 18, 2014
D&D 5th Edition is much better than I anticipated
When I had a look at the first public playtest documents Wizards of the Coast released of then-called “D&D Next” I was cautiously optimistic. But over time I lost interest in the game....
August 25, 2014
Roleplaying and Depression
Today I want to share something from my personal life. As you’ve probably read on my blog before I am having mental health issues. At first I thought it might be some kind...
May 23, 2014
Ask The Readers: What are you running with Fate Accelerated?
At first I want to apologize for not having posted in a while. At first I was busy with preparations for our German Free RPG Day convention and then my mental health issues...
April 10, 2014
From the Mindscape network: An Interview with Sarah Newton
Back in 2011 I published my first interview with Sarah Newton, RPG designer and author of the SF novel Mindjammer. We talked again two years ago, shortly after she left Cubicle 7 and...
March 12, 2014
News of the World #1
Don’t worry, I don’t want to write about the British news paper scandal here. But I thought that “News of the World” would be a great title for a column about news from...
March 3, 2014
Lamentations of the Flame Princess–A few thoughts
Recently I picked up the new hardcover version of Lamentation of the Flame Princess’ Rules and Magic book. Even though I have read the rules several times over the last few years, I...
February 26, 2014