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This one was again a rather short session. It literally was just the rest of session 2, but a week later. It took all of 90 minutes and then we were finished. They already had...
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You might have noticed that most of the links I put in those link posts are the ones I have come across during the week and posted on my dice.camp account. Here they are...
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Let’s read through Das Schwarze Auge adventure A2 Die Göttin der Amazonen (The Goddess of the Amazons) from 1985. First I was a bit demotivated to do B12 Der Zug durch das...
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I was reminded lately that I really should maybe just play in some games. Ever since the pandemic happened and we were all locked inside and my last campaigns died I have been...
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Czechoslovak illustrator and painter Peter Klúcik was approached to do illustrations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit in 1989. Unfortunately the publishing house lost the rights to the...
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(Trying out that wordpress reblog function…) I know everyone is tired because of various Xtobers so this month’s topic is about party and chill. Let’s Party! Festivals and...
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From what I have found there were exactly two scenarios for The Dark Eye in Casus Belli, and this is the second one. Le suppôt de Satan (The Devil’s Henchman) by Jacques...
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So I was posting about Little Wars a few days ago, which was mostly a chance for me to show dapper dressed Edwardian gentlemen playing toy soldier wargames in the garden. By...
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A shorter session this time, our kid’s birthday party cut into it. Previously the runners had found out the research center they were trying to rob had busted security sensors...
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I was browsing stuff about Casus Belli and it’s Jarandell subsetting, when I came across some scenarios they published for L’Œil noir at the time it came out. I actually never...
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A few years ago *cough*eleven*cough* I made a small post about free character portraits available on the net. As was pointed out to me all of the links on that post are dead by...
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Free Stuff Critical edition of Little Wars (Scholarly Editing) Download 222 Belle Epoque Posters (Open Culture) Thoughts What’s the function of a stronghold? (Spriggan’s Den)...
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So lets have a look at Das Schwarze Auge B12 Der Zug Durch das Nebelmoor (Wagon Train through the Mistmoor) by Karsten Wurr from 1985. Technically this is a double adventure...
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So this exists: “(your name) AND THE HOLY GRAIL”. A Monty Python and the Holy Grail themed adventure scenario from Space Gamer #41 (1981). Because yes, we need even more Monty...
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My kid already knows how to play Ticket to Ride, but his grandmother gave him the kids’ edition for his birthday, hoping that it would help him playing with his little brother....
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Well, continuing on: here are illustrations made for The Arabian Nights, as illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett in 1928. Unfortunately she did not produce as much as one...
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Did you know that wargaming, and by extension the tabletop roleplaying hobby, can claim descendence from a H.G. Wells book? In 1913 already well-known novelist H.G. Wells...
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There is something to be said about an application that just does exactly what you expect from it. Token Tool is the second of applications from RPTools, who are mostly known...
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I have mentioned it in my previous article, Dungeon and Dragons did not manage to make a proper impression in the German roleplaying scene in when it finally was translated....
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Yeah, I haven’t posted many monsters lately, but when joking around with my son I was thinking about a monster that could make sense: a predator that uses imitated noises to...
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Free Stuff Palace of the Silver Princess for Cairn (via itch.io) Papermau collects paper models from all over the world on the blog A collection of materials regarding Tony...
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Reading through Das Schwarze Auge adventure A1 Die Verschwörung von Gareth (The Conspiracy of Gareth) from 1985, by Reinhold H. Mai and Andreas Blumenkamp. And oh boy, this is...
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Oh Gods, am I going all Buzzfeed? I’m not sure myself. But I wanted to share some tabletop roleplaying podcasts I enjoy listening to, and ten makes such a nice round number....
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The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past,...
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A while ago I decided to buy myself the reissue of the first Das Schwarze Auge rules that came out in 1984. The reissue was a kickstarter-backed luxury reissue published in...
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The question what happens to us after death has been one that has been asked and answered many times ever since we started to think and noticed that sometimes when you bash...
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Imagine a second rate Robert E. Howard story and some fantasy by Clark Ashton Smith, blend them together, put them into your shisha and inhale. You hear that bubbling, that...
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We finally managed to get a game going. It took a while. Again. This doubles as my private notes of what was happening. Dramatis Personae * Misrule, a Haida Shaman * Glimmer, a...
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Just wanted to show something interesting/neat: The one article on the blog that actually is doing any numbers at all is me recounting the story of how Terry Pratchett changed...
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Stuff J.V.West’s fanzine Black Pudding can be found for free/pwyw on drivethrurpg, and worth checking out. Paul Siegel created a Book of War adjunct set of skirmish rules,...