Star Wars Galaxy Map (7025x4967 resolution)

    After some time, a constant search and a bit of GIMP, I was finally able to put my fan hands on a good map of the Star Wars Galaxy. It seems to be one of the more accurate you can stumble upon. It have a very good resolution of 7025x4967, so it's quite suitable to be printed as a nice poster.

    Personally I'm going to make it into a big panel, which will be positioned between a cool Yoda poster and a complete and beautiful Middle Earth map.

    I really hope Disney will build an "official" Star Wars map, in the future, and that it will be sold as the ones of many other fiction settings are. For now, I'll just stick on this hand made one.

    As usual, may the Force bi with you.

    P.S.: Just click on the above thumbnail to reach the full-sized map, stored on GDrive. You'll be able to download the over 9mb JPG file from there.

Free Destiny Beta Keys for PS4

    So, I have a couple of free Beta Codes for the    (Europea code I think, not sure if they're valid worldwide).

    By the way, I'm shocked about how fast the game downloaded and installed on my system: 14GB in about half an hour. PS4 really knows it's job. Meh, if only the internet can always be fast like that...


    Anyway, here we go with the codes:

    1) 3EAA - 6NND - LJQ7

    2) J65Q - NJNA - 3AQA

    First to read, first to play ;) . Have fun and just add me to PSN if you like: LoneTear77 .

My first HangOut RPG experience!

    So yesterday evening I played an RPG for the first time using Hangout as a videochat. The game of choice has been PSI*RUN, a very interesting game which employ few strong mechanics and put more emphasis on the narrative aspect.

    The experience has been quite interesting and satisfying, even if I expected a better quality of the videochat service (I employ a powerful internet connection). Still, this tool seems a very strong choice for playing RPGs when you're unable to gather around a table with other guys.

    The game itself met my tastes very quickly, as it is very narrative and with a very low mathematic aspect: after years spent on the nastily numerical systems like d20 System or GURPS (even if I still consider GURPS a great game engine), I ended up liking narrative systems like FATE or The One Ring much, much more. The other players has been a very good company, too.

    I hope to be able to use this tool very soon to play some Star Wars- themed RPG. Pity my english is not that great, or I could play with foreign people without problems!

By the way, you can buy the italian version of the PSI*RUN game at this link: http://www.narrattiva.it/psirun

FATE ACCELERATED EDITION ITALIAN TRANSLATION! (Traduzione Italiana)

    So, after a couple of weeks of intense work, I finally ended the first translation of FATE ACCELERATED EDITION, which is now readable in italian language, too. Around half of this book was already translated by another guy, and I just gave it a quick revision, while the other half is all my work.

    I think it will require some tweak and arrangement, and must be merged with the work of other guys, before it reach it's final installment, but it is quite satisfying to have such a work done for the most part.

    If you're interested in having a look to the actual book, here is the link:

    - FATE EDIZIONE VELOCE (FATE Accelerated Edition)

    Please fell fre to give advice and opinion on the translation if you like, in order to help us to reach the best version we can think of.

The Lair: works in progress, part 2

    Works are progressing.

    The living room begins to take shape, especially now that I moved the TV, the PC, PS3 and PS4 to it.

    Some libraries are starting to be filled, while those which will be removed are slowly emptied.

    As you can see, Ennoia has already chosen her future spot in my new accomodation ;)

    I admit it's a pleasure to be finally able to place all my stuff in it's deserved place. My RPGs and BoardGame bookshelf is quite filled up, but at last they have their own now!

The Lair: works in progress, part 1

    I finally started to move into my new home, which is my old house, actually! In fact, I'm moving into what has been my home from the age of 15 to the one of 28, until I decided to take a small apartment on my own.

    It is a three-story house (basement + garage, room + kitchen, sleeping floor). Whay too big for me, but I'm going to manage the space the best I can.

    Some time ago we did a renovation, transforming the old garage into a free space, used by my mother as laundry, ironing and other similar activities, adding another underground large room as new garage.

    I've always loved this basement room used by my mother, thinking that it could become a beautiful "mini", or, at least, a very suitable living room to be decorated according to my nerdy passions ;)!

    After many years I can finally turn this place like I always wanted, and I started just in the last few days: In the photos the current work in progress.



P.S.: Mostly powered by Ikea ;)!

4th Dimensione - Kingdom Of Thyne Illusions

This is the video of one of the songs from the upcoming album of an acquaintance of mine.     This is the second 4th Dimension's disc, a fresh power metal group from Italy.     Take a listen to it, and share the video, if you can, as some advertising is always welcome ;) .     Good luck to them!     By the way, the band's website is: http://www.4thdimensionmetal.com/

The FATE affair

    This month I started working at a wonderful project, which I sincerely hope will be successful. This project concerns the Italian translation of FATE Core. FATE is a very interesting free RPG based on the FUDGE system, which aims to allow a group of players to create their game together, through a narrative collaboration that allows the group to build the setting, the characters, the theme, the mood, the powers and all those aspects of an RPG which are usually preset, the way they like most.

    It is therefore a product different from usual, which encourages players to shape every aspect of the game to their liking, instead of providing tomes of rules, data and statistics about something already settled.


    The collaboration began by chance, after reading an interview with Nicola Urbinati, project manager, on an Italian site dedicated to the world of RPGs. In this interview Nicola raised the possibility to participate in the publishing future of the Italian version of FATE. So I decided to write to him, proposing to help with the translation. It was quickly decided to give me the job of translation revisionist. My work is to smooth the original translation, in an attempt to make it more enjoyable to read. I hope to do a good job!

    This is a stimulating and interesting experience, but unfortunately, having another job, I will be forced to proceed slowly.

    After all, let's face it: who among those who truly love RPGs does not dream of seeing their name printed among those of the staff responsible for the publication of a manual?!? I really hope this will happens to me thanks to this opportunity !

    If you care to delve a little more into FATE, here are some useful links:

    - FATE at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_(role-playing_game_system)

    - FATE at Evil Hat Productions: http://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core/

    - FATE dedicated blog: http://www.faterpg.com/

    - Italian FATE site: http://www.fateitalia.it/

Dragon's Crown Artworks

    In the last days, after some weeks on Borderlands 2 (which I founded quite boring, to be honest, and much similar to its predecessor), I'm back to Dragon's Crown on PSVita. The more I play this game, the more I think it's a small masterpiece in the games scene of the last few years. My Fighter finally hit lvl 99, and now I'm climbing the new, almost-infinite, random dungeon added with the last patch. And it's hard!

    I'm thinking about buying this game for PS3, too, in its digital version, in order to have it always installed on the consolle and ready to be played with up to 3 more pals on the same room. This game is somehow similar to Diablo 3 in concept
(action rpg based on farming and gathering equipme
nt). After playing back on both, even if I really enjoy some Diablo 3 run, I ended liking the Dragon's Crown approach more: it's less technical, more simple, each stage take fewer time to be cleared and it's "old school" style really capture me.

    Here follow most of the beautiful artworks you can find in the game. Some of them are secret, and must be unlocked by completing some part of the game, so this is somehow a minor spoiler. Enjoy the beautiful gallery of these 57 arts by clicking on any of the following pictures:

Goodbay 2013, welcome 2014?

    Whoa, the last month has been pretty intense!

    The new year has brought a lot of new features and changes, some good, some bad. My parents are breaking up, unfortunately, after many years of marriage, and the question is not solving easily. Inevitably, I'm also catched into this affair, as a member of the family. This event has blocked my move, as the house where I had to relocate will instead be occupied by my mother, and I'll move in to the one where she lives today (which is much larger and more beautiful, to be honest ...!). She also decided to stop working at our store for some time, which made job more complicated for those who remained.

    I also bought a new car. Oh well, my first car to tell the truth :). Some photos soon in a separate post!

    Moreover, I'm partecipating to a very cool project in the RPGs world, as translation revisionist for the Italian version of FATE Core. Additional info in a future post.

Vegan Salami

    So, even 2013 is gone. This year I spent a rather quiet New Year's Eve, along with my girlfriend and all our beasts. We have finally begun to keep Enny, Kiro, Nobu and Giget
ta in the same rooms, finding that they bear each other better than we expected. Apart from a few sporadic attacks from Gigetta, some typical feline romp here and there and canine mutterings by Enny, cohabitation seems quite possible!

    We had dinner with the simple vegan dishes you can see in the pictures. To drink, sparkling wine Ferrari for her and beer for me!

Kiro + Nobu + Enny

Ferrari + Beer

Pie