Almost exactly one year ago, Pinnacle Entertainment Group announced Space 1889: Red Sands, a Savage Worlds campaign setting based on the classic Victorian SF roleplaying game. I already own a copy of Heliograph’s...
Some time ago the 600th post has been published on Stargazer’s World. Considering that we reached the 500 posts milestone in February, this is quite an achievement! And this time I had a...
Nostalgia. We’ve been riding that wave for a while now. While I have certainly been guilty of buying into it, there is an argument to be made that if we are always revisiting...
Stop me if you’ve heard (read really) say this before! I am a lucky gamer. I have been playing role-playing games for going on four decades. Our gaming group has been meeting every...
This post brought to you by hurricane preparedness and emergency shopping! Just kidding… Currently Puerto Rico is under tropical storm warning, and we are preparing for the arrival of tropical storm Erika. Everything...
As you might already know, Chronicle City’s Angus Abranson is currently running a fundraiser on Kickstarter for the English version of the new Space 1889 game which was released in 2012 in Germany....
I’m currently on holiday (I love using that term, I feel so refined!) in central Florida, and despite having tickets to various parks the weather has been too cold (I blame my tropical...
Another week, another interview – this time I had the opportunity to ask a couple of questions to Shane Hensley and Matthew Cutter from Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Stargazer: Thanks again for taking your...
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...
Recently I wrote about a new version of Space 1889 being worked on by the German publisher Uhrwerk Verlag. But this is not the only updated version of Space 1889 that is being...
We’re here, on the final installment of the retrospective of my past 40 years as a gamer. It will not be the last post on the topic, mind you; this is just the...
Happy new year and welcome back to Stargazer’s World. I finally found some time to blog again, so lo and behold my first post of 2025! It has been a longtime tradition to...
A couple of years back I had the chance to playtest tremulus by Sean Preston. Tremulus is a lovecraftian horror RPG using rules inspired by Apocalypse World. To this day this has been...
This post concludes my first look/review of the fantasy RPG Unity. If you haven’t read Part One yet, you can check it out here. Before having a closer look at the rules, let’s...
Back in 2010, about a month after I finished writing WR&M I visited GenCon in Indianapolis. There a fellow RPG fan called Tristan Zimmerman did an interview with me for his RPG podcast....
I have come up against an interesting challenge this week. As some of you will remember I am working on a Wild West game. I like to use anything I am working on...
This is a claim we all have heard before. I am pretty sure that this notion first started just weeks after D&D was first released. For some reason people all over the world...
