Hannes – Farewell party

Hannes will leave us soon but there were still a few things we wanted to show to him, since he spent a lot of time over the last two days together with the hitchhiker sheep (on the pictures easily identified with a olive-green french-hat) and James the skunk – but…

Hannes at the Austrian Pub

Since we’ve met Hannes the Sheep, it has been a pleasure to enjoy his company. He’s a light-hearted little fellow and even accepted James the skunk without prejudice… So to make him a little present we decided on monday night, we’ll take him to a real Austrian pub, seems like…

Hannes the Sheep

Project Hannes. Ok now you’re waiting for some explainations, first of all – I apologize since this blog is mainly (90%) in english and I have the strong feeling more people are able to understand what I write here, when I do it in english, I’ll carry on with this……

RPG Superstar Round 3 (Villains)

Oh it looks very promising and the one european on his way to the finals is still there! According to the new paizo newsletter we’ve got 17 finalists, who are already fleshing out villains for their submissions. Based on Pathfinder’s beta rpg system (the inofficial D&D 3.75) I have to…

[updated] Freemind for Roleplayers

Update: This has been announced before in the comments, Johnn of roleplayingtips.com and campaignmastery.com has posted his behalf of useful tips and helpful tricks with freemind. Make sure and have a look at what he’s got to share. (by the way, campaignmastery has just received a complete category revamp that…

Gamedesign: Rattled by riddles

Riddels in a game – they are implemented quite often and quite a large amount of gamers like riddles if you ask them directly. I am one of them, if you ask me directly, I love riddles in the game, but once I start thinking about my past experiences with…

epic preparation – p9 – Conclusions

Weaving it together – the final chapter. Boris Balkan: Now you can watch! You can’t come with me… I must travel alone but you can look on and marvel. Dean Corso: That’s very kind of you. Boris Balkan: Indeed it is. There have been men who have been burned alive or…

Google’s Machinae

Besides a lot of rpg postings lately, the world hasn’t stopped rotating, hasn’t stopped moving onwards and it’s already end of January, 2009 again. Hell, time if flying by it seems. A lot of things change and not always for the better, that’s true for so many things and usually…

epic preparation – p8 – Actionplan

Actionplan Now we’re almost at the end of our epic-campaign guide and towards the end we got a key to success back hidden here. Let’s hope you find it useful since unless you’re already doing it with an actionplan and timeline you might find the concept a little strange and…

epic preparation – p7 – Politics

Political setup …or eeks – why should I do that? Politics… It’s easy – because you’ve got some really powerful characters running around and politics are always interested in having the big ones on their side. So we’ll have a close look to the politics of various groups, regions and…