Carnival of role-playing blogs: Allow me: Doctor Pestilence
Published by The Troll on 26 March 2020
I admit it, the first thing I did after hearing about the first corona cases here in Bavaria was to research the prices for a plague doctor costume (attention, affinity link!) on amazon. I didn’t buy…
Review: The Plague of London
Published by The Troll on31 May 2020
Trigger warning: epidemics, death, comparison with the current corona situation
I recently bought an audiobook that sent a shiver down my spine. Daniel Defoe’s „A journal of the plague year“ (Attention!…
Role-playing breakfast: Nazi cows from Hitler’s laboratories threaten humanity!
Published by The Troll on 25 January 2018
They are big, vicious and aggressive and a Nazi invention: Hitler’s monster bulls! Read all about the Nazi bulls that were originally intended to be released into the wild in Germany. Perhaps one of…
Carnival of role-playing game blogs: Hat, police! – Of Medjai and Black Guards: a police unit in…
Published by The troll on 3 September 2020
What do Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Rakshazar have in common?
They have drawn on ancient Egyptian history, or more precisely, the Medjai.
In Assassins Creed: Origin, you take on the role of…
A perfect run… in reality: The Carlos Ghosn case from a role-playing perspective
Published by The troll on
15 January 2020
I’m surprised that nobody from the revered role-playing blog-o-sphere has taken up the story of the former CEO of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and shed more light on it. Yet the whole thing would be…
Elmer J. McCurdy – the (un)dead cowboy
Published by The troll on 28 March 2018
What connects an outlaw shot in 1911, Skeletor and the Six Million Dollar. A true story that only America can write…
An American outlaw
This story is about Elmer J. McCurdy, a bank and railway robber…
Spontaner DSA 4.1 One Shot – hat jemand einen einfachen Charakterbogen zur Hand?
Hey zusammen,
ich hab heute ganz spontan ein DSA 4.1 One Shot vor mir, und wie das manchmal so ist, fehlt mir noch ein passender Charakter, mein bisheriger eignet sich nicht wirklich. Daher meine Bitte: Hat jemand zufällig einen fertigen,…
(Ost)(Nord)Friesische Inseln in Aventurien
Seh ich es richtig das es für fast jede innerdeutsche Kultur ein Aventurisches Pendant gibt aber keine Nordseeinseln? Was ist da los? Wieso keine Deiche, Klabautermänner und merkwürdige Volksfeste? Übersehe ich was? Wenn ja was? Wo spielt…
Interview mit dem verantwortlichen DSA-Redakteur Alex Spohr zum Crowdfunding zu „Aventurien…
Der 24. Fantalk mit einem Interview mit dem verantwortlichen DSA-Redakteur Alex Spohr zum Crowdfunding zu "Aventurien - Das Lexikon des Schwarzen Auges", "Das Schwarze Auge - Die Illustrierte Enyklopädie" und dem Ingame-Band…