750 – new year, new milestone
All that scratching out business grows rather tiresome. The first week of 2017 has scarcely passed and already we hit another milestone in regard to our article count. As in […]
Editorials
Late SLAmas
Since reporting from the first Open Day last August, the news about SLA Industries and its derived skirmisher CS1 have quieted down somewhat here at d6ideas. Although not for lack […]
28 Enchantments and 3 Wishes
The first German RPG bloggers’ carnival 2017 translates as something akin to “curses, echantments, wishes”. So what we will do this month is present a suitably enchanting lunar cycle’s worth […]
Targets 2017
Following straight on the heels of the somewhat lacklustre performance evaluation for 2016, we set ourselves some targets for 2017. Of course we continue our commitment to our ongoing mission: […]
Report Card 2016
So, quick check: Which of our 2016 targets did we actually meet? Spoiler: Not that many… First of, more of the usual. Meaning: House rules, background ideas, and other material […]
![[German] Karneval der Archive - Thema: Alte Säcke](https://d6ideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bunker-archive.jpg)
[German] Karneval der Archive – Thema: Alte Säcke
“Old Farts” somehow ended up as the topic for the fifth anniversary of the German RPG bloggers’ monthly carnival. We trail our archives for what we old farts did these […]
![[German] Die Kurzschrift des Gefühls - Musik und Rollenspiel noch einmal anders](https://d6ideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Settingmixtape.png)
[German] Die Kurzschrift des Gefühls – Musik und Rollenspiel noch einmal anders
Today, I suddenly realised that I use music a lot in researching and preparing settings, especially historical and pseudo-historical ones. Some more thoughts (or perhaps just words) on this in […]
![[German] Ein Gespenst geht um im deutschen Rollenspiel - das Gespenst des Realismus](https://d6ideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gespenst-362x500.png)
[German] Ein Gespenst geht um im deutschen Rollenspiel – das Gespenst des Realismus
German rant about ranting about a rant about realism in games and – stuff.
Rubies and Emeralds: In Search of Names – preliminary thoughts on Northern Ireland and the Troubles in The Red Star
Originally, I had planned to use this November to finally realise one of those projects which I kept on the backburner for several years – a The Red Star take […]
[German] Rapid Fire – The Red Star und die Matrjoschkarevolution
Some German musings on the Rapid Fire special of The Red Star and how it portrays multiple rebellions going on at the same time.