This post features extensive spoilers for the 1st Pathfinder Adventure path adventure “Burnt Offering” Last night we played the introduction D&D game I talked about earlier this week. It was a good game and while I completely realize that I might be expecting too much from D&D, it could have gone better…. but this time, […]
Pulling the plug…on ads
Meta-blogging post alert… After nearly 2 months of Ad Sense and referral adds, I pulled in a Whopping 2$ (Canadian, mind you). I initially put ads on the page because I was curious to see how it worked. Since I’m nowhere near the threshold 1000 pageviews a day point (which would land about 0,15$ a […]
Finding the Path: Pathfinder #2 First Impressions
Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder Wallpaper found here*. According to Google Analytics, the 1st search result that lands people here is ‘Pathfinder’ (at 11,6%), right before my ‘Nom de Plume‘ (which doesn’t mean ‘My name is Plum!’). So there seems to be some genuine interest in Paizo’s Pathfinder Adventure Magazine on the Web. Since I just […]
Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Grab a can of Evil
Image Source: The one and only PM! This is part of a continuing series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki.Ahhhh Evil, evil, evil… Misunderstood, […]
A Fey’s Journal, 3rd entry. Part 2
As we where heading back to find the drug lab, seven other Spriggan were blocking our path. They were the remaining force of the Dogbane House and they got to see the unconscious form of their leader, Raketi in our grasp. To my surprise they started talking to me in Sylvan, stating that they had […]
Adventure Prep, Special Session: Introducing Newbies to D&D
Since PM posted his first ‘Perspective‘ post yesterday, I thought it was the perfect timing for posting this Adventure Prep/Response to PM’s post Next Friday, PM has agreed to get a few friends together and allow me to DM an introductory D&D game. I feel honored to be entrusted a mission so many of us […]
Guest Post: Perspective on Weekend Wizards from a closet Half-Orc…
Image Source: PM himself with a little help with a South Park creator, I would guess. Chatty DM: Welcome to the first of what I hope will become a series of posts by PM. PM is a friend of ours who has yet to succumb to the sweet call of RPGs, but the Evil Overlord […]
Yet another Milestone
This is just a short meta-blogging message to mark my 100th post in this here blog. I can’t believe that in only 10 weeks I wrote between 70 000 and 100 000 words already! Isn’t that like a novel or something? While I originally was doing this for myself and some of my players (and […]
A Fey’s Journal, 3rd entry. Part 1
What a day! Well just as I finished writing my last entry Cruguer complained that I did not pay enough attention to his martial exploits. Well this is something I surely intend to pay attention to from now on. So let’s get down to business. We are in this cave, discussing our next course of […]
DM Chronicles, Session 4: The Storytellers' Ball, part 2
See here for the 1st part of this DM log.So the characters, victorious over the Big Bad and his sidekick, were battered, bruised and the players were showing the 1st signs of being tired (it was getting close to 9 pm). I still had 9 Spriggan mooks and a lab to go through. That’s when […]
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