So last time I talked about TDE mechanics, I talked about how it does an excellent job of supporting games that are not combat focused,...

Rashid Ben Omar, the desert guide Traveling through the Khôm desert, even on one of the more frequented caravan routes is a dangerous...

I read fpruller's great article about Rondra, and thought instead of commenting I might write this instead. The world of The Dark Eye,...

In this post I will try to show you the differences between D&D and TDE - but not in a hard, crunchy way. Instead of comparing how many...

The Blessed One of Rondra is one of the most played Blessed Ones in the Dark Eye. I'm going to look into that as well as dissect the...

The Dark Eye is a pretty well rounded-game compared to many other TRPGs, particularly when compared to something like Dungeons & Dragons....

The Investigator The Horasian Empire is the most advanced realm in many aspects. If you think about the intrigues of the Borgia in...

There are countless RPGs out there and in particular in the genre of medieval style fantasy with knights and orcs and the like you find a...

Every group is different, every game is different. I wanted to preface this post with that statement because everything from this point...

First Example Another GM recently was in need for a villain in Al’Anfa and asked me to help her. She eventually went with a modified...

Crafting: The Aventuria Compendium gives rules on how to craft items as a PC, but what about if your character instead wishes to...

When I use NPCs in TDE they come in a variety of flavours from the limited stat block as a combat or skill obstacle without even a name...

I thought I'd start a little series about the Gods in Aventuria, and who better to start with than Praios king of the gods and leader of...

Character generation in The Dark Eye might feel a bit intimidating at the first look. And truth be told, the game is a bit frontloaded...

As already stated by Alisdair HERE, the dark eye provides some rules in addition to the base ruleset, called optional and focus rules....

One of TDE’s mostly cited features is its „living history“, a term that describes the setting’s metaplot that has been constantly...

I thought I'd start with a short post on my first impressions of the game. Let’s not bandy words, it looked dense. This might be...

Welcome! As the title says, this blog will be about sharing information on the english version of Ulisses Spiele's excellent RPG "The...