I am oh so very late to the party, but thought I´d share some of my thoughts. For the longest time Apocalypse World games have been a mystery to me. I did not get them at all, wasn`t able to finish reading the rules of DW because they seemed weird, meta and “artificial”. It came…
Rereading Beyond the Wall inevitably leads me to reread other OSR games and of course just generally googling around for neat OSR gems. One topic that often comes up are encumbrance rules. I wanted to present my take on it, which is very similar to others but not quiet the same. The basic idea is from…
Over the last years I have been trying to get a proper campaign up and running. Most I get to is session 1. I long looked for a reason and after some self reflection I had to realize a hard truth. I enjoy preparing a campaign, with custom or tweaked rules, some pages of background,…
This Saturday our regular scheduled game of Titansgrave could not happen because 3 of our regulars couldn’t make it. We still where 4 players, and my GM +Michael Wolf wanted to run a White Box one shot, a system he is very enamored with atm. I am usually not too big a fan of white…
Best laid plans and all that. What happened? My players decided two weeks before game date they would rather play Fallout instead of Shadowrun. I had to scramble and translated and modified Savage Fallout and Nates Fallout to suit my needs. If anyone is interested I can share a link, it is only in german…
Was a bit quiet this week, am on vacation. Still spent a bunch of time on my Shadowrun hack. It is coming together nicely. I know it is not for everyone as it is crunchy compared to Covert Ops. But I have fun building it. As an example of where I am going here a preview…
As posted earlier I am working on a Shadowrun 2nd edition conversion for D00lite. One of the things that should be in there is a Grimoire guide translating the Shadowrun spells into Doolite equivalents. Now, I am sure it wont be possible with everything. In BBF Magic is more flexible and less specific then Shadowrun.…
The author of Graystone Tower asked me to review his adventure and I am happy to do so. I crossed the path with Jim the first time a long time ago when I wrote Savage Space. He provided me with a review copy of his adventure. This is a reading review, I have neither run nor…
Lately I am in the mood again for a cyberpunk system. Originally I wanted to run Interface Zero for our next session. I like the system and the world seems interesting. However one of the players voiced his wish to play Shadowrun. He only knows a bit about the setting from the computer games but…
In the last few months and well, year, there have been some fresh releases for the D00lite system games Covert Ops and BareBonesFanatsy. Being who I am I totally missed those. It is time to remedy that. Here they are: Decahedron Magazine#5 The already established Fanzine with an irregular schedule released their 5th issue. It…
Wow, has been a long time again! Truth be told I just wasn´t interested in blogging about anything. I had nothing to say really. The reason I creep back up is an observation I made recently that I wanted to share, even though it may be just a personal one. A long time ago I…
I usually dislike coming back after a long while just for a promotion, but this one is worth it to me. One of my favorite RPG systems, BareBones Fantasy, has a tremendous sale for a short while with an all in bundle. I wrote about the game here and published several hacks for the it…
