This post is part of a series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering and adds my thoughts on the same subject. This time, we tackle choosing a Rule set which is very actual since we’re at the butt end of D&D’s current edition. Part 1 can be found […]
Guest Post over at Dungeonmastering.com
Good morning. If you aren’t already a regular reader of Yax’ Dungeonmastering blog, I invite you to head over there for a guest post I wrote about the OGL license. The DNDreview blog already added a few comments on it that are very interesting. So feel free to comment over there as I get the […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 2
See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1
Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]
The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 2
I’m dead tired, so I’ll tackle this instead on writing a sub-par Session report of our Pathfinder for newbies game (which went well for all except PM, he sucks at dice, period!) See part 1 here. The List is taken from Geeks are Sexy and posted by Piggybankpie‘s Patrick. Let’s continue, shall we? 6. Busted […]
Happy B’ Day Mr. Washington
As I can see from the vertiginous drop in readership, this be a long weekend for my American readers. Wikipedia graciously informed me that this holiday is actually to commemorate George Washington’s B’day (do note that American History is not taught up here in Canuck land). Well, enjoy your day off one and all. I’m […]
The Echo Chamber: 10 worst reasons to blog, Part 1
Totally unrelated to RPGs, this is a pure Meta-blogging post. Still it will be of interest to RPG bloggers. Towards the end of the week, Graham sent me a cool link. It’s a guest post on Geeks are Sexy by Montreal-based blogger Patrick who runs the PiggyBankPie blog/project. This very funny and eerily accurate article […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Have Time, Will Travel.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Bronze Dragon flying toward the sunset. In that post I challenged readers with a stupid question and the winner(s) could chose the subject of a Trope in RPG post. Davetrollkin stepped up first and requested I tackle Time Travel. Since time travel, much like the […]
Adventure Prep: The Newbie group, an Encore
Back in late October I posted an adventure prep article about doing a Demo D&D game for a group mostly made of D&D newbies based on Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 : Burnt Offering. The game was very entertaining, featuring crazy stupid goblins and some of the worse dice-craft I had ever seen in a game. A […]
Pathfinder #5 preview: Crawl that Dungeon!
Tonight features a double post because I’m taking off tomorrow night… It’s Valentine’s Day! (No I still haven’t received #4 if you were wondering) The fifth Installment of Paizo’s Pathfinder series, Sins of the Savios sets out to recreate the high-level massive dungeon crawl experience of classic D&D adventures. It features a multi-part dungeon based […]
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