Last week we played the first session of a German indie rpg: Dungeonslayers. As the name implies it’s a quick and easy, not quite old-school, Fantasy hack-and-slay (but not only) game. It’s a free download but can also be purchases in printed format at a very reasonable price. It’s worth it - we had a lot of fun.

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Shameless self-plug: I recently did an interview with Kobold Quarterly, which you can now read at their website.

Just recently I became aware of boxninja's game "3:16 - Carnage among the stars", a small press rpg about space troopers fighting a never-ending war among the stars - obviously inspired by classics like Starship Troopers, Traveller, Aliens, Warhammer 40k, Space Crusade and others.

I read the the short-but-intriguing session report by robin-d-laws ( Read more... )

The third session of my new Jhendor campaign is looming tonight and you will find the third map of the "a-map-a-session" program ( behind the cut )

Remember my a-map-a-session program?

Well, my Jhendor campaign's next session is scheduled for tonight and I didn't have my map for the session yet. So I whipped up a quick village map with City Designer 3. This took me about 30-40 minutes, including printing.

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The next role-playing campaign looms on the horizon ... and I have a new-campaign's resolution. I want to create at least one map for each session. I have neglected mapping for my own games (and my own enjoyment) far too much in recent years. It's time to change that ( Read more... )

I'm still waking up before the alarm because of jet lag, but it is getting later. On Sunday I'll probably be accustomed to the new time ... ready to head back to Europe.

I was at the ENnie Award ceremony yesterday and enjoyed seeing Pelgrane's Trail of Cthulhu get two Silver ENnies for Best Writing and Best Rules which it thoroughly deserves. I' ( Read more... )

Here's a little preview on next year's Cartographer's Annual.

10 plastic point for the first one to tell me who's map work this style is based on.


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I'm working on the next Annual issue, which will be map pack, highlighting floorplans with the new SS2 bitmap artwork. It'll also take a detailed look at using lighting and shadows in CC3. Here's a little sneak peek on my cathedral floorplan so far:


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