This is a retelling of my recent Sword & Wizardry during a day of gaming with my friends. See part 1 here. Descent into the Depths of Level 1 As we set up for the game, we took a bunch of Hero Clix minis to act as our miniatures to represent marching order and determine […]
Old School Geekout: The Order of the Grappling Hook, Part 1
I started playing D&D with the 1st edition of AD&D way back in the first half of the 80s. I didn’t read English very well (and neither did my friends), so we ended up doing what pretty much everyone else were doing with the game: use the rules we understood and ignored/made up the rest. […]
Friday Chat: The Issue(s) of Combat length in D&D 4e
This post is inspired bu a Twitter discussions I had last week. As my player level up right into paragon level, I noticed that the length of combat in D&D 4e kept increasing. We often break the 90 minutes point for ‘normal’ encounters and massive boss-level fights will easily eat up most of our 3 […]
Notebook Campaing: Super Nico vs the 3 Hungry Goblins
Earlier this year, I went to the movie theater with my son and we ended up playing a little of D&D with made up rules. You can see the game here, including the now legendary Troll who can’t build a bridge encounter. When I came back from Gen Con a few days ago, I told […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Say it with Tentacles, Part 2
See part 1 here. Setting up the Fight This is going to be a weird game report because the fight that I will get into shortly, is pretty much all that happened in the game, with some dream sequence before and a bit of story and scary stuff after. So I’ll spend a few minutes […]
Primal/Within Chronicles: Say it with Tentacles, Part 1
If you are entirely new to my game posts, hi! Thanks for stopping by. Have a look here to retrace what happened up to now. Scare us Ô Dungeonmaster It will have been our shortest Summer break ever. After having skipped one game while I was gone camping with my lovely wife and kids, I […]
Gen Con 2009: Highlights, Part 2
I just listened to the ‘Not-going to Gen Con’ edition of the RPG Haven Podcast, and now I feel bad of not liveblogging the whole thing… since one of the host pointed toward my blog as a Gen Con source… It was a lot harder this year! Ohhh I forgot My good friend Wil kindly […]
Gen Con 2009: Highlights, Part 1
Because of several reasons whose roots coincide with my health issues of last spring, this year’s Gen Con trip lacked a clear mission. Part Networking, part press, part gaming with my friends and part work as a tournament DM, I ended up with a an overfull schedule that robbed me, in part, of the magic […]
The Order of the Chatty DMs: Gen Con Guest Posters 2009
Yes, I’m back from Gen Con. I’m still recuperating from it all, but it was as phenomenal as last year’s. That also means that the Gen Con hiatus is finished. Yay! Over the next few days, I’ll be writing posts about my Indianapolis adventures but this posts isn’t about that. Today I want to sing […]
Gen Con: ‘Puter troubles
Yesterday morning, I wrote a 775 word article on my 1st day of the Con. The post got eaten by WordPress (I can’t even recover autosaves it seems) and I only noticed last night. So I’ve decided that I will not post daily updates of my activities and will do a ‘Highlights and Lessons Learned’ […]
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