This is a very D&D specific post. Yan, one of my long-time players has started playing his 1st D&D arcane spellcaster ever. One of his feedbacks from last Friday’s debacle was that Spell Resistance really stank from a player’s perspective. You wait for your turn, you fire your spell, you roll a number and if […]
Archives for August 2007
Where has the post-game funk gone?
I don’t feel down at all about the bad game we had last Friday, I’m actually surprised at that. While bad sessions are a lot rarer than they were (switching from Gurps to D&D 3.0 was hard!), I often felt that it was finally time to hang my RPG skates after such a session. Even […]
DM Chronicles, Session 1: Harsh Beginnings
This series will be a DM-centric log of my current D&D campaign, it will not be an attempt at telling a story so much as being a ‘lessons learned’ tool for me to reflect on what was good and what wasn’t so good in the last session. It will be mostly about game mechanics, design […]
Comic Snap Reviews 8-24-7
The usual, there may be some spoilers!
Happy B'day Shamus
Shamus Young of DM of the Ring fame turns 36 today. Happy Birthday man! You created something really big and cool and we appreciate you doing it for us. I’m really curious about what’s coming next. I speculate that it will be a RPG satire (confirmed) but probably based on his own gaming photos instead […]
Interplannar adventures
Warning, Spoilers for Monte Cook’s Ptolus d20 setting. Safe for my players to read. I’ve been wishing to do a multiplanar campaign for a long time. A D&D 2nds edition was the period I had left that game for the crunchiness and detail of Gurps. So I missed out on Planescape, having touched it only […]
Rock Options (Guitar Hero and Rock Band)
It wasn’t all that long ago that if you wanted to play a rhythm game, your option was to play Dance Dance Revolution and all the neighbor-disturbing fake-dancing silliness that it implies. There were other entries that hit mainstream- Donkey Konga and Karoke Revolution come to mind, but none of them hit hard enough to […]
Game Carnival (If Only It Had Funnel Cake)
Yehuda has posted the newest Game Carnival, which includes two of my Critical Threat articles. It also contains a number of other articles about games, from a few theory articles to some video game reviews. I haven’t gone through all of them yet, but already I’m digging an article by Corvus that I missed when […]
Doritos Contest: Total Joke
Wired has a funny article up about the winners of a recent contest sponsored by Doritos to pitch games for Xbox Live Arcade. The kind of games selected are hilarious by themselves, but the article goes the extra distance of mocking them. A friend of mine entered a few ideas into the contest, mistaking it […]
Recent DMing stuff from the Bloggoshere
Instead of writing new DMstuff, why not link to interesting things other people have to say on the subject of DMing? Danny (Bartoneous) from Critical-hits talks about how to end a gaming session. I agree that Cliffhangers are a great way to end a D&D gaming night. I’ll further add* that Cliffhangers are sometimes hard […]
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