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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: B2 Der Wald ohne Wiederkehr (The Forest of no...
“like Nostria and Andergast” has been a saying among DSA-fans for decades now. It’s the equivalent to “fighting like cats and dogs”.I think the rivalry between the two backwards nations of Nostria and...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: B3 Das Schiff der Verlorenen Seelen (Ship of...
One of remarkable bits of exposition this adventure starts with is that a few guards were chasing some thieves over half the continent, from Notmark to H’Rabaal, just to get discouraged by a few...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective B4 Die Sieben Magischen Kelche (The Seven Magic...
Hans Joachim Alpers sucked as a scenario author, and the reason I say this at the very beginning is because level 1 room 1 of the adventure has the following riddle: Q: what do Robert Zimmermann’s...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: B8 Durch das Tor der Welten (Through the Gate...
Ah. The infamous one with the Science Fiction stuff. I wish I could properly thrash it and make fun of it, or conversely just tell you that it’s one of the most amazing obscure titles in DSA history....
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I just bought another copy of White Box…
Hunter S. Thompson had this great quote at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “…once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.“ This...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective B9 Der Strom des Verderbens (The River of Doom,...
B9 was the first DSA module published in 1985. This is a year into the publishing history of the game. The Ausbau rules extension was around the corner, and so was the A-series of more advanced...
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[The Dark Eye] B1 Im Wirtshaus zum Schwarzen Keiler (Black Boar Inn, 1984)...
I already talked about Black Boar in in the first entry of this series. Since then I have gone through 10 or so adventures for DSA and it turns out my view on this module has evolved. Not evolved...
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#RPGaDay2023 Day 2: First RPG Gamemaster
OK, so I published the first day on August 2. For some reason it didn’t want to publish my article the day before and I had to do it over the mobile app. And the same thing happened yesterday. First...
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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,...
View Article[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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[Shadowrun] The Matrix of Yore
Have you ever looked at how the matrix worked in old Shadowrun? I mean really old, first edition Shadowrun? Because it’s fascinating in the most awkward 80s kind of pre-www way possible. Not that it...
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Download: PD Token Collection (170+ tokens for fantasy games)
The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my kids were not at an age...
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[Worldbuilding] Just one of each
I have been worldbuilding the last few months instead of actually gaming. The Glimmermark still does not feel ready to actually play in, I am still trying to figure out how to fit the building blocks...
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