The German rpg-blogs’ carnival concerns itself with the topic of “dumpstats” this month.
“But the games I usually write about do not even include dumpstats!” was my first meek response. Luckily, I then got reminded of the following little gem:
SLA Industries’ FLUX stat
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Berlin, 8th of May.
If nothing else, then the date and location alone call for a The Red Star article with the obvious topic of choice being the Great Patriotic War.
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Step 0: Preamble
Outbreaks of terrible diseases are a staple of rpgs, though they usually act as a threat to be averted or as backdrop to the action, and not as the “main attraction” for characters to get stuck in with directly. Continue reading
The 70th anniversary of the victory in the battle of Stalingrad has me thinking, amongst other things, of The Red Star and specifically brought me to ask “what does victory actually mean in a game?”.
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All month long, Germany’s RPG-bloggers have been discussing the topic of how to get into roleplaying games in the first place. Well, “getting into a game” can mean a lot of things – getting into it from scratch when you have never gamed before, getting into a group with new people, getting into a system, a setting, a campaign that’s new to you … practically all of those involve one thing, though: Getting into a new character. Which can be hard enough all of its own. Continue reading
Amongst other things The Red Star Campaign Setting is a military RPG.
It provides copious amounts of information on aspects of the organization and structure of the Red Fleet as they relate to the characters and how it all changes with large scale developments of the setting such as the fall of the URRS.
It also establishes promotion within the ranks of the fleet as an additional reward mechanism for player characters.
Strangely, it does not cover another class of rewards that seem obvious within such a context: It ommits all mention of decorations and medals.
This article aims to rectify this.
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When writing Halloween articles, SLA Industries is still a game that should probably feature in any event. So we follow up our deadnoughts, a special incarnation of LAD resurrection, with a couple more houserules for LAD itself, still all in the spirit of the German “From the Grave” carnival. Continue reading
Blue Planet might not appear to be the most obvious choice when looking for resurrection in a game.
In the hardish sci-fi setting of Blue Planet, medicine and biotechnology are easily the most advanced areas, but by no means can they considered ‘magical’. Continue reading
And here goes the next of our articles from the grave, still in line with the German blogger’s carnival theme for October, and this time focusing on the obvious undead.
Time and time again, men are condemned to wander the earth after they die, unable to come to rest due to some injustice or simply the circumstances of their death itself. Continue reading
Our recent pledge in regards to the collective German rpg blogging efforts this month (after all, someone had the nerve to claim, that all of our October articles would follow the “From the Grave” motto given out by Teilzeithelden…) starts to bear fruit:
In our third article a horrifically useful creature for Earthdawn creeps – or rather crawls – through Barsaive: Continue reading