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A great opportunity and a good cause!

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October 19, 2010
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I know many fine folk in the blogosphere, in Twitter and other places have already shared the news, but just in case you have missed it, the fine folk at RPGNow and DriveThru RPG have put together a package of products, similar to what they did for Haiti relief after the devastating earthquake in the island nation, this time for Doctors Without Borders Flood Relief. They are working to help the victims of the terrible flood in Pakistan.

There are two bundles, an RPG bundle worth $724.46 which you receive for a $25 donation. There are some great digital books in that bundle, from Icons, to Dragon Warriors, Don’t Rest Your Head, Exalted 2nd Edition, Fear Itself, Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs vol. 2, Spycraft 2.0, and many, many more (including some fine Pathfinder RPG supplements)!

This is for a good cause and you get some excellent gaming materials. There is also the comic book bundle worth $173.91 you receive for a $10 donation. I have not read the comics, but there are some gaming PDFs in there, like Dark Champions and Mutants & masterminds 2nd edition.

I got mine this afternoon and I’m still downloading and perusing all the gaming goodness. I encourage you to find it in your heart (and pockets) to donate. It’s a worthy cause, with loot! As I write this post gamers have donated $9,500, we are a generous folk, I know we can do more.

Have a great day!

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Skulduggery available for preorder

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May 27, 2010
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Skulduggery Robin D. Laws’ latest game “Skulduggery” is finally available for preorder at the Pelgrane Press store. If you preorder the printed version that will be released on July 1st, you will get the PDF now!

So, what is Skulduggery all about? Its a roleplaying game which plunges players into situations where they have to prevail by guile and persuasion, not brute force. The settings included allow GMs and players to create tales of modern politics and bureaucracy, the age of piracy, the high school drama club and interstellar trade. The preorder sets you back $22.95.

And while you are at the Pelgrane Press store check out their other products as well. The new Trail of Cthulhu adventure Castle Bravo for example costs $4.95 only! This is definitely a steal.

Lovecraftian Week: Roundup post

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May 3, 2010
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Last week we brought you several post on gaming inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. But all good things have to come to an end, and so the “Lovecraftian Week” concluded with a Lazy Friday Video Post featuring Lil Cthulhu.

The success of the event was overwhelming. We had 6,298 page views last week and Cody from “Kingdom of Geeks” joined us and wrote several Mythos-related posts as well. Perhaps we should have these themed weeks more often!

But now let’s have a look at the contributions to the “Lovecraftian Week”. I want to start with Cody’s posts here:

But he haven’t been lazy over here at Stargazer’s World, either, so without further ado, behold our contributions:

While the "Lovecraftian Week" is technically over, I’ve heard that my friend Roberto has still one unpublished post on the topic up his sleeves. Stay tuned, it will go live when the stars are right again!

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Review: The Armitage Files

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April 29, 2010
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The Armitage Files When I first heard about “The Armitage Files” I was intrigued at once (Robin Laws actually mentioned it in the interview I did with him last September)! The 152-paged softcover book is a campaign for the Trail of Cthulhu written by Robin Laws and published by Pelgrane Press. But it’s definitely different from most campaigns you’ve ever read. The Armitage Files doesn’t consist of fully fledged-out adventures that the Keeper has to run in a certain sequence, but it provides the Keeper with ten mysterious documents, supporting characters, locations and artifacts to run your unique version of this epic campaign.

Basically the book provides you with all the tools needed to improvise a whole investigative campaign. Investigative campaign and improvisation? Isn’t that usually contradictory? According to Robin D. Laws it isn’t. And so I gave the review copy I was provided by Pelgrane Press’ Simon Rogers (Thanks again, Simon!) a thorough read to find out, if that claim was true.

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Lovecraftian posts from the archives

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April 28, 2010
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I gathered all my mental strength and delved deep into the dusty archives of this blog to bring back some of the unspeakable truths about the Mythos. Behold!

All the posts listed here are either about some Cthulhu game product, give advice how to improve your Cthulhu gameplay experience or just fool around with the Mythos. Nobody was harmed during the creation of this post. :)

Reviews

Advice

Odds & Ends

I hope I didn’t miss anything! I don’t want to fight those pesky Mythos creatures anytime soon. ;)

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Old McWhateley had a cult… Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn! – My Top 5 Lovecraftian gaming products

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April 27, 2010
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In keeping with the theme of Lovecraftian Week here in Stargazer’s World I want to do a series of mythos themed top five lists inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. And since this is a gaming blog what better list to start with that my Top 5 Lovecraftian gaming products!

Hopefully it will be equal parts nostalgia and mini-review; I’ll try to include some gaming tidbits or ideas that can be of use to you. So without further ado gentle reader here we go…

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The Stars Are Right!

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April 26, 2010
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The Stars are right We’re having a special event this week at Stargazer’s World: Lovecraftian Week! The majority of the articles this week will be about gaming inspired by the Cthulhu mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft.

Call of Cthulhu is probably the best known roleplaying game based on H.P. Lovecrafts works, but in the recent years several games inspired by the Cthulhu mythos has been released. Take Cthulhutech for example which is a clever mix between the supernatural horror and the mecha genre. Another pretty recent game set into Lovecraft’s world is Ken Hite’s Trail of Cthulhu which makes use of the GUMSHOE system.

And even in some Fantasy game that are don’t refer to the Cthulhu mythos directly, influences of Lovecraft’s work can be found. Green Ronin’s Freeport is an example of a setting that contains cults, gods and creatures clearly influenced from the Cthulhu mythos.

So, stay tuned for some Lovecraftian goodness each day here at Stargazer’s World! And if you want to join the fun, just write something fitting the theme on your own blog, link back to this post and leave a comment here. It’s like some mini blog carnival this way. And feel free to use the logo I created (The Cthulhu artwork was created by DeviantArt user The-First-Magelord and was used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License) for that purpose.

Now there’s only one thing to add: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”

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