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
Question posed by yennico.
Answers provided by blut_und_glas, Hasran, and yennico himself.
Answers categorized by genre (specific system in one case), with half of the entries going to fantasy ideas. Continue reading
Welcome to the second installment of the article series about my fantasy setting Nydele. Today we are going to look at what I perceive as one of the major strengths of the setting. Even though none can lay claim to the truth, Nydele still sports a number of wonderful religions. But I am getting ahead of myself. Before we come to the religions, we will dwell a bit on Nydele’s fauna and flora first.
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… suddenly obsessing about colours (wait and see!), yennico was the one to ask „What is … a Cerulean Cossack?“. blut_und_glas threw his lot in with him, and together they brainstormed about a dozen options, ranging from the generic to the system-specific and covering pretty much everything from high fantasy to historical gaming and from rules to background to adventure hooks and back again. Continue reading
… the question „What is … the thing in that picture?“ was raised by Shadom after stumbling across Waterboy in the deviantart gallery of ~phil2001 (many thanks once more to Phil, for letting us use his picture). blut_und_glas, the doctor, Krath, Pythia and yennico took time out of their Christmas preparation to take a good look and come up with an answer. Continue reading
Right from the start of the Athena project, humanity not only integrated itself into the ecosystem of Poseidon but brought with it diverse organisms of Earth origin for transplantation to the water world, ranging from their fellow cetacean colonists over crops to bioplastic bacteria. What began with Athena was continued during Recontact and the Long John rush. A surprising latecomer in all this was the animal that had accompanied man everywhere before – the dog.
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… this question by blut_und_glas was attempted to answer by Shadom, Blut_und_Glas, Hasran und ApokalypseTest. This time we offer ideas, concepts and plot-hooks for The Dresden Files, Blue Planet, Warhammer Fantasy, Eclipse Phase and other cyberpunk and science fiction games. Continue reading
When Ruprecht died in dat puddle of ‘is own barf, the Raven priest told us, we ‘ad to bury ‘im in a keg of “Goldmanns Best” or ‘e wudd cum back to ‘aunt us. Aye we bought de ale, but then decided to drink it ourself. It wudd be a waste, I tell ya and Ruprecht wudd ‘ad ‘ated dat.«:
Hauke Hartlander, King of bar flies (deceased)
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"You shall not chain the Machine to the body;