What about Pathfinder? A review…

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has been out for a while, since August 2009, and it’s made me a happy gamer so far! So if you want the short of it there you have it. Interested in a little more detail? Ok read on… M[...]
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Monday Bonus: More SotU-Related Content

As I was gathering information on Searchers of the Unknown, I came across a comment that there was more floating about on the internet related to the game than just Swashbucklers of Mars. Curious, I kept digging, and I [...]
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Weekend Doubleshot Review

So far in my exploration of microlite gaming, I have stuck with games that have taken a single particular approach — taking an existing game and attempting to condense the rules while still maintaining a similar fo[...]
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Dragoons20 Review

While I was bopping about the internet the other day, I tripped over a new Microlite20-based fantasy game called Dragoons20. Written by Randy Angle, the game document can be found at Hoppsbusch.com along with a Pocket-M[...]
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Review: CthulhuTech Damnation View

Recently I was given the opportunity to review Damnation View (RPGNow Affiliate Link), the first storybook for CthulhuTech. Some of you may remember that I reviewed the CthulhuTech core rulebook in October 2008. Alas I h[...]
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Preview: Kingdom Builder by Chaotic Shiny Productions

I love all kind of random generators, especially random name generators, since I usually have a hard time coming up with cool-sounding character names. When some time ago Hannah Lipsky of Chaotic Shiny Productions asked [...]
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Review: Wushu Open

Wushu Open is a short, free and rules-lite roleplaying game created with the Wuxia genre of fiction in mind, although it can be used in any genre. Wushu’s author Daniel Bayn also offers two expanded versions of the gam[...]
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Review: Alpha Omega – The Encountered Volume 1

In my “Best & Worst in Gaming 2009” posts, I picked the Alpha Omega RPG game line for “Best Production Values”. If you want your non-gamer friends get interested in the hobby just put one of the Alpha Omega b[...]
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Review: Tunnels & Trolls v7.5 Boxed Set

Tunnels & Trolls is almost as old as D&D (it was released in 1975 – that was the year I was born) and surprisingly enough the latest version is almost unchanged from the game Ken St. Andre designed over 30 year[...]
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Review: Tunnels & Trolls v7.5 Boxed Set

Tunnels & Trolls is almost as old as D&D (it was released in 1975 – that was the year I was born) and surprisingly enough the latest version is almost unchanged from the game Ken St. Andre designed over 30 year[...]
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[German RPGs] 1w6 – Ein Würfel System

Recently Rob Lang of the Free RPG Blog asked me if I knew “1w6 – Ein Würfel System” (1d6 – One Die System). I had to admit that I’ve heard of it before, but I haven’t actually read it. So today I ha[...]
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Review: Alpha Omega Core Rulebook

For quite some time I was interested in getting Alpha Omega for myself, but for some reason I never bought it. Then a few weeks ago, I had a chat with someone from Mind Storm Labs on Facebook. I thanked them for their fr[...]
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Freebie: Mini Six

In the last months I have posted several times about West End Games’ D6 System and the OpenD6 project. A few months ago, Eric Gibson, owner of WEG released the cinematic RPG from the ‘80s that powered the very succe[...]
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Review: Shambles by Duane O’Brien

Last week, Duane O’Brien, blogger and owner of the RPG Bloggers Network, provided me with a free copy of Shambles, his Zombie RPG. But it’s no ordinary Zombies RPG. This time you don’t get to defend yourselves fro[...]
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Lazy Friday Video Post: Game Geeks #123 Dread

I’ve heard a lot about this game before and when I noticed that Kurt Wiegel had reviewed it on his YouTube channel, I thought this might be an appropriate video for today’s video post. I am not sure if I would ever p[...]
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Chimera 2.0 – worth a look? (Updated)

Yesterday fellow RPG blogger Greywulf wrote about the new Chimera 2.0, a quick-to-play multi-genre RPG. After reading his post I headed to the Welsh Piper website and was quite shocked that they want $20 for a 111-paged[...]
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Diaspora

Recently I heard about the hard science-fiction RPG powered by FATE called Diaspora. I am a big fan of everything science-fiction and so I read a few reviews, checked out the official website and finally I decided to bu[...]
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First Look: On Her Majesty’s Arcane Service

I recently got a copy of Flying Mice Games’ RPG “On Her Majesty’s Arcane Service” from RPGNow (RPGNow Affiliate link). The 234-paged roleplaying game is a perfect example of an interesting game that suffers fro[...]
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Necessary Evil

The Savage Worlds game is not only known for its fast, furious and fun game play but also for the unique settings. Some of those settings may look quite ordinary on the first look but most of them have a least a certain[...]
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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. Someone has added notes in re[...]
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First Look: The SKETCH System

Imagine the following situation: it’s your weekly roleplaying session, everyone has gathered at the game table but one player. Alas this player’s character will be crucial for the next session, so you decide not to r[...]
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Being Berin Kinsman

Yesterday I decided to have a look at Berin Kinsman’s autobiographic roleplaying game “Being Berin Kinsman”. The 45th anniversary edition is available at Lulu as Paperback and PDF. On 26 pages you not only get the[...]
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First Look: X-plorers

X-plorers is a new roleplaying game by David Bezio’s Grey Area Games. But although its brand-new you could easily mistake it for a game from the 70s. And I mean that in a good way. The basic idea behind X-plorers is a[...]
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New Battletech RPG on the horizon

Some time ago, someone mentioned a Battletech RPG on Twitter, I believe it was my fellow RPG Blogger Chgowiz. But after the IMHO horrible Mechwarrior 3rd Edition, I had pretty much lost interest in roleplaying games bas[...]
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Reading Recommendation: “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming”

I have never played the early editions of D&D. Not even one of the retro-clones that are now freely available all over the internet. The oldest game I’ve ever played was the original Traveller and that was in t[...]
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Review: Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

A couple of days back, Paul MacLean from Yog-Sothoth.com wrote me an email and asked if I would like a courtesy copy of the “Lovecraftian Tales from the Table” DVD. And of course I said yes, and just a few da[...]
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Dicenomicon

Yesterday morning one of my readers (thanks, Jonas!) told me about a pretty new dice-rolling application for the iPhone/iPod Touch called “The Dicenomicon“. Some of you may remember that  I already mentioned[...]
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My new favorite podcast

A few days back I learned about RPG Circus. RPG Circus is a pretty new podcast hosted by three of my favorite RPG Bloggers: Jeff Uurtamo from The Bone Scroll, Mark Meredith from The Dice Monkey and Zachary Houghton from [...]
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Preview: Kobold Quarterly 10

Warning! This preview has been written by someone who has never read any issue of Kobold Quarterly before. Yes, its true. I have never read an issue of KQ before. I guess KQ entered the scene when I was probably just not[...]
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First Look: Swords & Wizardry Quick Start

Today fellow RPG blogger Michael Shorten (better known as Chgowiz) released “Swords & Wizardry Quick Start” a 26-paged roleplaying game that is available as paperback or free PDF download on Lulu. “[...]
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First Look: Traveller Core Rulebook

Please note: This is a first look, not a proper review. I haven’t read the whole book yet and I just write about my initial thoughts. So please take everything written here with a grain of salt. Traveller was the f[...]
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Treasure: Part 5

Putting out a game that tries to change, or question, how RPGs are played presents its own problems. To start with, a full 200pp+ system can make learning ‘the basics’ seem like a ‘task’ for new [...]
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Cloudship Atlantis

Cloudship Atlantis is a free steampunk RPG written by fellow RPG blogger Rob Lang as his entry to the 24h RPG Contest. Considering that this game has been designed and edited in just 24h, the result is quite astonishing[...]
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Review: Into the Grey

The German band Erdenstern is known for their “Fantastic music for the adventure in your mind”. Their albums were mainly created with the use at the game table in mind. Five of their albums “Into the Gr[...]
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Review: Questers of the Middle Realms

Questers of the Middle Realms is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy roleplaying game by Silver Branch Games. Questers uses the PDQ rules by Chad Underkoffler’s Atomic Sock Monkey and I have to admit that was the selling poi[...]
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Two Worlds RPG for free

Two Worlds is an action RPG for PC and Xbox 360. In 2007 RPGObjects created a pen&paper roleplaying game based on that game that was included in the Collector’s Edition of the game. They are now releasing this [...]
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Basic Roleplaying Quickstart PDF

One of the oldest RPG systems in existence is Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying System that powered games like Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest or Stormbringer. Last year Chaosium finally released a generic BRP rulebook that [...]
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Review: Open Game Table

When I today crawled out of bed I found my copy of “Open Game Table - The Antholohy Of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1” in my mailbox. And I have to admit it looks great in print! The faux tome cover has a c[...]
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Basic Roleplaying

If you ever played Call of Cthulhu or RuneQuest you know Basic Roleplaying, the Chaosium Roleplaying System. Recently Chaosium released a generic BRP book that is meant to be a generic roleplaying game system that can be[...]
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Preview: “Open Game Table, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs”

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few months you have probably read about the upcoming “Open Game Table, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs“. The 140-page book will be available [...]
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Review: Microlite20 purest essence

I am always interested in roleplaying games I haven’t played before and especially when they are free. One of the free roleplaying games that grabbed my attention recently was Microlite20. What is Microlite20? Acco[...]
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Ye Olde Map Maker

You are in dire need of a dungeon map for your next adventure but you lack the artistic abilities to draw one by hand?Then you should have a look at “Ye Olde Map Maker“. This web- and flash-based tool allows [...]
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Dungeonslayers: Playtest report

Yesterday, a few friends came over to my place to play some games. One of the things I had prepared was Dungeonslayers, a free, rules-light, old-school game. The 18-page rulebook contains the rules for playing the game, [...]
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Roleplaying music: Elyrion – Call of the Titans

In October I promised you a proper review of Erdenstern’s new CD “Elyrion - Call of Titans“. Their last work is not part of their usual “Into the …” line but it’s a soundtrack cr[...]
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A quick review of the DD Character Builder

This morning I downloaded the D&D Character Builder Demo version. Within a few minutes I had created a sample character and I was surprised how easy everything worked. But there’s still some room for improvemen[...]
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Freebie: HARP Lite

A friend of mine is an avid fan of ICE’s classic roleplaying game Rolemaster. I still have some very fond memories of our Rolemaster campaigns set into his homebrew world Ebur. When ICE announced HARP he preordered[...]
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Roleplaying music: “Dead Space”

Dead Space is a SF-horror-themed third person shooter for the PC and several gaming consoles. I had the opportunity to play the game for a couple of hours recently and the first thing I thought was “Wow! This would[...]
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Retro review: Traveller

I have to admit I own a lot of different roleplaying games. Some I haven’t even completely read, some I haven’t even tried out and there are a few that have very fond memories connected to them. One of these [...]
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Playtest: WoW Miniatures Game

I have to admit I am an avid “World of Warcraft” fan. When the WoW Miniatures Game was announced I was sure I had to get my hands on one of the starter sets to try it out ASAP. Some time ago I finally had the[...]
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FATE review

“Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment” or FATE for short is a free roleplaying game by Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue. In many ways FATE is different from classic roleplaying games like D&D for exa[...]
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