Next week, contest entries close on Chatty DM and RP Tips’ contest for One Sentence NPCs. All you need to do his head over there and leave a comment with one (or more, as I did) NPCs that can be summed up in one sentence. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think your writing is […]
Archives for 2008
Teaching Role Playing Games to New Players
This is a guest post of mine that originally appeared in Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter #408. It’s reprinted here to allow for comments. Subscribe to John’s weekly e-zine for awesome RPG tips delivered to your inbox. Introduction Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely know there is a new edition of […]
Player Motivation and Types Revisited, Again
The Gen Con 2008 seminar I’ll co-host with my friends DNAPhil, Zach and Vicki is going to be about sharing tips with GMs about prepping RPG game session . My parts of that seminar (What I’ve been doing most nights of this week and possibly the next one) will cover Using Tropes (yay!) and Player […]
Reiner Knizia: “Creation of a Successful Game”
Dr. Reiner Knizia, one of the best known and most successful boardgame designers, was one of the Guests of Honor at Origins this year. I showed up to one of his panels, entitled “Creation of a Successful Game”, a few minutes late due to late night D&D the evening before. When I arrived, he had […]
Doctor Horrible – Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, and.. Doogie Howser?
The mind behind Buffy and Firefly, the Actors behind Captain Tightpants and Doogie Howser, and god knows who else, have come together to bring the internet a free mini-series. Well, free at first. Go to www.drhorrible.com on July 15th for Act 1, 17th for Act 2, and 19th for Act 3. They will remain free […]
What’s your disgustingly good local dish?
I’m smack dab in the middle of my Gen Con preparation week (which will likely bleed over into the next one). This means that whatever I post here is going to be very light in relevant content. Since I can’t shut up and I hate silence, I put up little texts just to let you […]
Let’s Talk About Fluff
I was reading through a discussion on Paizo’s message boards that grew out of a post linking to our coverage of the panel with Mike Mearls at Origins, and one discussion in particular caught my eye. Several people began to discuss the amount of content provided in the 4E core books vs. the amount provided […]
Mini-Post: Ascension of the Drow and 4e Fantastic Terrain
Gen Con Drow Insanity This morning I had an email by Nicholas Logue, adventure writer extraordinaire from both Paizo and his own Sinister Adventures. Here it is: Hi All! If you are on this list, it means you have volunteered to GM and or assist with the Ascension of the Drow mega-event at Gencon this […]
Origins Wrap-up and Swag Report
Well, another Origins has come and gone. As with the past two years, I focused on press coverage and hanging out with friends moreso than playing games. However, I did still manage to hit the big games I wanted to play. Gaming North Star Games was one of the first booths I hit at the […]
While I was gone…
Three pretty important things happened in the gaming world while I was sequestered away at Origins: Reiner Knizia has won his first Spiel Des Jahres award for the boardgame Keltis. And he won the best kids game award too! I’m sure I’m one of the last bloggers to report on this, but Diablo 3 is […]
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