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
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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
Happy Birthday D&D!
A Sunday post, “Inconceivable!”, to quote a certain Sicilian of movie fame. I’ve put this post together for the very special occasion today, the 40th anniversary of the publication of Dungeons & Dragons....
January 26, 2014
Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part I
Welcome dear reader! As part of my renewed efforts to contribute more to the blog in 2014 I’ve decided to start a new Friday topic for the next couple of weeks, maybe months,...
January 17, 2014
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Good bye 2013… Hello 2014!
Year in review posts, they’ve been done before… And I’ll do one gain! 2013 was a great year for me! I finished my MA in Education accomplishing an important personal goal. It did...
January 13, 2014
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Yesterday my vacation started and so I decided to take a few days off from the blog starting today. Christmas (and my girlfriend’s birthday) are only a few days away, and I am...
December 17, 2013
Dust and Mirrors: A soundtrack for Night’s Black Agents
Over the last years Pelgrane Press have become one of my favorite publishers. Their games are written by my favorite game designers, the artwork and production quality is excellent, and they are one...
December 12, 2013
Why I prefer rules-light games
In a comment on one of my post someone told me that I am overanalyzing things. I have to admit he’s totally right. It’s something I noticed a while ago. Heck, I even...
December 3, 2013
Ask The Readers: Shadowrun WaRPed?
Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about Shadowrun. A while back my players asked me to run Shadowrun for them, and since then I’ve looked into various editions...
December 2, 2013