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		<title>Lazy Friday Video Post: &#8220;Making the Most of Mythic Structure&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time I want to share a video from the Neoncon 2009 GamesU with you. In this 51-minutes video Matthew Grau from WildFire LLC talks about the monomyth (aka the hero’s journey) and how it can be used in creating stories.



I have to admit that’s the first video in that series that I actually enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/19/lazy-friday-video-post-making-the-most-of-mythic-structure/</link>
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		<title>The Secret of my Success…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a mailroom clerk with dreams of greatness, of getting that corner office with a view, I too picked up a gaming book long ago and embarked on this journey we call role playing games! Back in 1986 I began playing and since no one wanted to be the Game Master the responsibility fell on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/19/the-secret-of-my-success%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Ordo Draconis, a review…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently as a result of my previous review of the Pathfinder RPG (Which many of you seem to have liked, thank you!); I received a review copy of Ordo Draconis #2. What is Ordo Draconis you say? They describe themselves as a non-official e-zine dedicated to the Dragon Warriors RPG. Ordo Draconis also includes statistics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/18/ordo-draconis-a-review%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>New avatar!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Kyle Ferrin created a cool new avatar for me. All he needed was a photo of me and $25 that I payed via PayPal. And he did an awesome job. Especially the starry background is just great. If you are interested in his work, you should definitely check out his webcomic “…an eXtra Precious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/18/new-avatar/</link>
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		<title>Secret dice rolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I remember correctly I’ve always rolled behind the GM screen when I was running a game. My first GM did the same, as did most GMs I met in my life. Recently I had a talk on Skype with Philippe-Antoine Ménard and he mentioned that his rolls as a GM are always in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/18/secret-dice-rolls/</link>
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		<title>Our first RPG pub meeting was a success!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Some time ago, I wrote about the plans to organize a regular, RPG-themed pub meeting. Yesterday we finally had our first meeting and it was a great success. More people than we anticipated attended (we were 20 people including Mirko and me) and everyone seemed to have a great time.
But let’s start at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/17/our-first-rpg-pub-meeting-was-a-success/</link>
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		<title>Posts from Stargazer&#8217;s World will be included in OGT2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I have known this for some time now, but I wanted to wait with this announcement, to give Jonathan Jacobs the chance to post it first: Several of my articles written for Stargazer’s World and one guest post I wrote for Philippe Ménard’s “Musings of the ChattyDM” (now part of Critical Hits) have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/17/posts-from-stargazers-world-will-be-included-in-ogt2/</link>
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		<title>The most useless RPG-supplements you ever paid money for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess we all have done that at least once:
There is a new supplement for my favorite RPG, but I am kind of lukewarm about it. I guess, that I will not really need it. But still&#8230;I have bought everything else that has come out for that particular RPG. So – come on! I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/16/the-most-useless-rpg-supplements-you-every-paid-money-for/</link>
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		<title>Tales of  the Arabian Nights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to another boardgame review at Stargazer&#8217;s World!
For my second article I have chosen my newest acquisition: Tales of the Arabian Nights by Eric Goldberg, published by Z-Man-Games.
I have to digress a bit first:
Many of you will propably remember the Adventure Gamebooks from the eighties, like the Lone Wolf- or Fighting Fantasy-series. For those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/15/tales-of-the-arabian-nights/</link>
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		<title>GUMSHOE Sale on RPGNow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I just read about this on Simon Rogers’ LiveJournal blog:
All of our GUMSHOE PDF products are on sale over at rpgnow.com at a 15% discount until 19th March. Our average rating over 22 reviews is over 4 out of 5. So that’s Trail of Cthulhu, Mutant City Blues, Esoterrorists and Fear Itself. Get them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/15/gumshoe-sale-on-rpgnow/</link>
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		<title>Microlite20 Under New Ownership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 12th, Robin Stacey (aka Greywulf) announced that he had sold the rights to Microlite20, including microlite20.net, to Seth Drebitko.  I quickly asked Robin to get me in touch with Seth, which he did, and Seth was gracious enough to answer some questions about the sale and the future of Microlite20.  Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/13/microlite20-under-new-ownership/</link>
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		<title>Five good things I learned playing D&amp;D 4th edition (or… How I learned not to care about diagonal movement!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you might have gotten the idea from a previous post that I don’t like Dungeons &#38; Dragons 4th edition. Nothing could be further from the truth. I played the game for the better part of a year and had fun with it. Ultimately my players and I sat down to talk about it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/12/five-good-things-i-learned-playing-dd-4th-edition-or%e2%80%a6-how-i-learned-not-to-care-about-diagonal-movement/</link>
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		<title>Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen&#8217;s Duel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers.



The movie is not only extremely funny but also great inspiration for everyone thinking about running a steampunk RPG! The duel (and the resulting destruction) is truly inspiring!  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/12/lazy-friday-video-post-a-gentlemens-duel/</link>
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		<title>Initiative Tracking Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Initiative tracking is very important when it comes to running a Dungeons &#38; Dragons game. Gamers all over the internet have come up with some unique and creative ways for tracking initiative. I thought I would take a moment to talk about a few of my favorite initiative tracking tools.
DM&#8217;s Tracker by kbarapps
DM&#8217;s Tracker is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/11/initiative-tracking-tools/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Blog of a new RPGer&#8221; interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview with me.
The result is an in-depth interview with me which you can read over at Gordon’s blog. We talked about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/11/blog-of-a-new-rpger-interview/</link>
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		<title>Microlite Interview with AntiPaladin Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams on January 27th, 2010.  There have been a couple small edits.
While I was waiting for Randall Stukey to be able to get back up and running following the loss of his old computer, Ray Nolan and Phil Morris of AntiPaladin Games contacted me about doing an interview. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/10/microlite-interview-with-antipaladin-games/</link>
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		<title>Good news for all Iron Kingdom fans!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I almost overlooked yesterday’s post at Purple Pawn. But then I scrolled back and read the headline again: “It’s Alive: The Iron Kingdoms RPG Lives!&#34;
I have to admit I had to rub my eyes and reread everything, because I thought I was dreaming. But as is turns out, Privateer Press will be releasing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/10/good-news-for-all-iron-kingdom-fans/</link>
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		<title>Get the &#8220;World of Darkness&#8221; rulebook for free this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I just found out that the World of Darkness rulebook is available for free on RPGNow in celebration of “Read an E-Book Week”. This 224-paged PDF is the core rulebook for all “new” World of Darkness settings like Vampire – The Requiem or Geist – The Sin Eaters. But since the updated Storyteller is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/09/get-the-world-of-darkness-rulebook-for-free-this-week/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Dice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dice are a very important part of most role playing games. Without out a good set of dice you would not be able to roll up your character, let alone slay a dragon. They are just as important to people who play roll playing games as the story they are playing through. Some people take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/08/the-importance-of-dice/</link>
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		<title>Dungeonslayers: Forgeworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Finally the first official supplement for the Dungeonslayers game has been translated into English. Forgeworks by Christian Kennig is a 4-paged PDF containing new weapons, armor, and magic items for his free roleplaying game.
The Dungeonslayers core rules didn’t include that many items for your characters and we all know how important loot is! Aside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/08/dungeonslayers-forgeworks/</link>
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		<title>The A-Team: A model for RPG campaigns?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday while watching  an episode of The A-Team on TV, it struck me. Wouldn’t The A-Team make a perfect model for a RPG campaign?  Let’s look at the basic premise, which is summed up pretty good by the voiceover during the opening credits:
”Ten years ago , a crack commando unit was sent to prison [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/08/the-a-team-a-model-for-rpg-campaigns/</link>
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		<title>Stargazer&#8217;s World moved to a new server!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Some of you may have noticed that Stargazer’s World was extremely slow recently. Today it got unbearable and I decided to call the company that hosts the site. After a few minutes looking into what may cause the problem, they offered me to move my blog to another server. 
The move just took a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/07/stargazers-world-moved-to-a-new-server/</link>
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		<title>The State of the Game: Puerto Rico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello readers, I’m going to ask your indulgence for a moment because I intend to write about something very personal, gaming in Puerto Rico.
Recently I’ve become interested in the wellbeing and growth of the role playing community in the island. In a way I feel like it’s the least I can do for a hobby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/05/the-state-of-the-game-puerto-rico/</link>
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		<title>Gears: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While developing Gears I have encountered many situations where I was not sure if the direction I am taking with the game is the right direction. While working on the combat section of the Gears rules I have the problem that the basic mechanic, which I love, is getting in the way all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/04/gears-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes/</link>
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		<title>What about the review? Revisiting Pathfinder…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that read my previous post about the Pathfinder RPG and are scratching your heads, no my player’s characters did not go up in level SO fast that I’m ready to revisit Pathfinder and discuss game play at mid to high level. What has happened is I’ve gotten some great reaction and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stargazersworld.com/2010/03/04/what-about-the-review-revisiting-pathfinder%e2%80%a6/</link>
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