recently I became aware that there might be an issue with my participation in OneBookShelf.com’s Blog and Podcast Support Program, being an active blogger/reviewer and my publishing efforts as Stargazer Games on the DriveThruRPG/RPGNow marketplace. In order to avoid any conflicts of interest that may cause trouble in the future I’ve decided to cancel my publishers agreement with them.

That means that all products available there will not be available anymore in the near future. I know this will cause some inconveniences for you. But rest assured that everything will be available for download in the future. I just moved all my stuff to my Google Docs account where you can download all Stargazer Games’ products. The download links are available on the respective product pages.

If there are any questions to this, feel free to comment below. And thanks for you understanding and continued support.

UPDATE: OneBookShelf actually acted pretty fast because the account has already been closed. If you have trouble downloading our games, please let me know.

Title	Downloads
A Wanderer's Romance	1405
Arcane Heroes	1117
Badass	2683
Discovered Lore	1964
From The Imperial Forges	2493
From The Imperial Forges 2	2045
From The Imperial Library	2103
Resolute, Adventurer & Genius	1181
The Art of Combat	2281
The Horror of Leatherbury House	1478
Warrior, Rogue & Mage	7010

I am not entirely sure how these numbers are generated, but I am pretty sure that 7010 WR&M downloads are not equal to 7010 unique downloaders. But even if that’s the case, it’s still quite an achievement. I am also overjoyed everytime WR&M comes up in an rpg.net discussion or is mentioned in a blog that has been unknown to me before.

I also want to thank everyone who contributed to one of the games above, wrote about them, played them, told their friends about them. You guys are awesome – all of you!

If you are interested in a more tactical combat in WR&M and any other Wyrm System game, check out Christopher’s blog post on the subject. He is currently planning to do some playtesting. If you like the idea, why not head to his site and leave some feedback?

Matt Jackson, blogger amd cartographer extraordinaire, has created a map for the Fallen Empire of Vaneria. Here is is:

Click on the map to see it in full size (2400 x 1800 pixels)

When I wrote WR&M I only had a faint idea of what the known world looked like but Matt managed to turn my words into an awesome map. I especially like the city icons. Adorable!
There was also the question of scale that had to be tackled. In the end we settled for a size comparable to Greece.

I hope you like the map as much as I do. And while you’re at it, why don’t you visit Matt’s blog and check out his other works? It’s worth it!

Warrior, Rogue & Mage has been translated into Spanish! You can check out the game’s announcement on the Arcano XIII blog and download the complete game here.

As I said before, the guys behind the translation project have done a great job and the final product is just looking great.

The team around José Muñoz is currently thinking about translating all the existing supplements and some of the Arcano XIII members are developing their own material for the game.

If you are a Spanish-speaking roleplayer, please check Guerrero, Pícaro y Mago out. I hope you enjoy it!

When everything goes as planned they’ll officially release it on their blog on the upcoming weekend.  I’ll update this post with a link to the PDF as soon as it goes life.

I won’t bore you with all the numbers here, but if you are interested in seeing all the details, I’ve made them available as a Google Docs spreadsheet here. What I want to talk about today is what I found out looking at these numbers.

When you look at download totals WR&M is the most popular product, but if you look at the monthly averages, Jay Steven Anyong’s BADASS wins this particular title. BADASS was hugely popular in the first two or three months since release. But on the long run I think WR&M will remain the strongest Stargazer Games’ title. It has been downloaded at least 6151 times since its release in July 2010.

What makes me a bit sad is that Resolute, Adventurer & Genius is obviously among the least popular products. And that’s a real shame. RAG written by Andrew Modro and Jason Cabal is a great game that is not only better looking than WR&M but also fixes a lot of the issues the first iteration of the Wyrm system had. But it seems fantasy is just much more popular than pulp will ever be. I also believe we should have done much more “advertising”.

Overall I am very happy with the success of all the products we’ve released. There’s not one game that hasn’t been downloaded at least 800 times in only a few months and especially the interest for Warrior, Rogue & Mage is still very strong.

What does this mean for the future? I think some more support for our current games would be in order. A while ago I mused about a setting book for Resolute, Adventurer & Genius. This could be a fun project and also raise interest in the game again.

Even though a lot of people urge me to write more stuff for WR&M I am not sure if I want to do so at the moment. Yes, it’s highly popular, yes it’s still my “signature game”, but personally I want to work on new projects at the moment.

Arcane Heroes is another game that was done in a few hours but has shown a huge potential. More than once I have thought about expanding it to a full game with a complete setting, revised rules and more stuff for you to play with.

On my blog I recently wrote about the upcoming NaGa DeMon and I think I might work on a special project for that event. So stay tuned for updates on that front.

Rough Draft 5 is the final iteration of the normal d6-based rules. But he didn’t stop there. Rough Draft 6 uses a new d12 mechanic, which is something I actually planned for the SF variant of Wyrm. From what I’ve seen WYRED has a lot of promise and if you are into the genre you definitely should check it out!

You can get the details on both releases here.

A couple of days ago they sent me a layout example and I have to admit it looks very nice. Check it out:

The final PDF version is not done yet, but I’ll let you know as soon as it’s out. I feel honored that people actually find my little game interesting enough to do the hard work of translating it into another language. By the way, the Spanish version is not the only translation of WR&M currently in the works. As far as I know there are currently people working on a German and a Hebrew translation of WR&M. I can’t wait to see them released as well!