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[Tools] How To Use Usenet: A Biased Introduction

Usenet was the first discussion board on the Internet, way before there were things like the world wide web or anything really graphical. Yes, there was a time when the internet existed that was there...

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Diary of the Doctor Who Role-Playing Games

Over the years there have been multiple attempts [1] to create a Doctor Who RPG. Unfortunately those were not as successful as one would expect. The last incarnation, Cubicle 7‘s Doctor Who: Adventures...

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Callers

Hmm… I was reading up on Gamma World (because I was thinking about doing some post-apocalyptic one-shot at one point) and came across this on Grognardia: Like many old school rulebooks, Gamma World...

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[RPG Music] More RPG Ambiance Music

I haven’t really been playing MMORPGs lately, not since I switched over to a Linux system in 2006, and so I am not really current with a whole lot of things here. MMORPGs never really caught my...

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[Labyrinth Lord] Easy Multiclassing

The only game I found which handled multiclassing in an elegant and simple way was D&D 3.X. And I had my gripes with that as well, the least being that it demanded a complete rewrite of the system...

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Where do all these undead come from?

One of the ideas I just was having while thinking about the Wilderlands and their inherent danger was the amount of Undead one might encounter.  Where do all these come from anyway? There is not really...

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[Tools] Tavern Soundset for Syrinscape

Remember when I wrote about Syrinscape last week? It’s a soundscape program for RPGs that allows to create background noises for your RPG sessions. It already comes with a nice amount of different...

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My Frankenstein

I was not idle the last few weeks, I was just busy with other things and in places that didn’t have a good internet connection for blogging. Christmas, and work, and other stuff kept on interfering...

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Poker Chip Ideas

Bennies The idea comes from Savage Worlds, a benny is a single token that can be exchanged at one point during the game for a certain effect. Every player (GM included) gains a certain amount of...

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[Shadowrun] Run 1.1: Speakeasies, Devil Rats, and lots of Pizza

So, we had our first session of Shadowrun 5th edition today. It was a bit of a surprise for me. I had the rules beforehand (only as a pdf though, which was hard to read from), but I did not actually...

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The (maybe) first D&D game ever played in Germany

Midgard 1st ed. 1981 Here’s an interesting anecdote about the beginnings of roleplaying games in Germany. It’s from an article by Manfred Roth on fantasyguide.de, must have been written around 2003,...

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[The Dark Eye] Documentary: Hinter der Maske des Meisters (Behind The Mask of...

Orkenspalter is one of those fanpages for Das Schwarze Auge that have been around for so long they have become part of the establishment. And I mean this literally, they have a series of Actual Plays...

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#RPGaDAY2022 Day 4: Where would you host a first game?

Frankly, host it wherever is convenient. I don’t have the convenience of a friendly neighborhood game store, so a living room table might be it. Maybe even mine. We sprang for a really big table from...

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#RPGaDAY2022 Day 7: System Sunday: Describe a cool part of a system that you...

Reaction rolls were a revelation when I first realized what they are and how they work. People always think Dungeons and Dragons is only about fighting, and then you have actual social mechanics in...

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#RPGaDAY2022 Day 8: Who introduced you to RPGs?

some bronze art on the location of a neolithic hill fortress, down the road from my parents’ house Me. I’m a country kid. I grew up between farms and woods and castles. Well, I did, but I spent a lot...

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#RPGaDAY 2022 Day 9: What is the 2nd RPG you bought? Macross II: The...

Cover: Macross II: The Role-playing Game Macross II: The Role-Playing Game came out in 1993. Palladium tried to cash in on the surefire success of Macross II. What the hell is Macross II? you might...

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B1X The Legend of the Lost Supplements

I sometimes have opinions about ttrpg stuff that don’t quite gel with the consensus. But that’s ok, lots of people have that, that’s how we are getting a vibrant hobby going over 50 years. (50? Yeah,...

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[The Dark Eye] B1 Im Wirtshaus zum Schwarzen Keiler (Black Boar Inn)

Here’s a thing I wanted to see for a while: I have this pet theory that German-language roleplaying and roleplaying in English-speaking countries have different characteristics not only because, well,...

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Privateers & Gentlemen

This is an interesting purchase I made on Amazon lately. It’s available on there as a POD title.It’s a late 70s/early 80s Age of Sail RPG/wargame. Basically a Hornblower RPG, but the author of the...

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Nebula Award for Game Writing 2021

Here are a few interesting things I just noticed (yes, I am slow, this is news from May): 1. The Nebula Awards have a category for Best Game Writing, and have had since 2018 2. The last few years it...

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