Image Source: Sorry couldn’t resist… 🙂 Post-publication clarifications: I ended up getting a few facts wrong (eg: cRPG vs MMORPG) and making erroneous assumptions in the post and the comments (eg: ‘Jake’s’ age). For that I humbly apologize to Ve4grm. However, I think that, as written, the post remains an interesting case study. In Yesterday’s […]
Why do you DM?
Thrommel, the head Admin. from the ‘Okay.. Your Turn‘ forums posed a good question a few days ago: “A DM carries a staggering amount of responsibility for game preparation, rules knowledge, storytelling and social interaction — especially when compared to the players, who often just have to show up and roll the dice. It’s a […]
Meet the players!: Math
Image Source: Shamus Young‘s most excellent DM of the Ring Webcomic (used with permission, thanks man!). Here’s the fourth Player Profile from my gaming group. All previous profiles can be found here. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, Race Class)? I play Aravar, an elven Duskblade that’s been tweaked out […]
Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Glowing Fluff Elemental
Image Source: RPGnet’s Forums. This is part of a 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. Quite a number of tropes exist solely because […]
The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 5: Performing
This series compares the development of a RPG gaming group with that of a workplace team through the concepts of the 4-stages of team development. This installment talks about the blissful stage of a performing group. Your players spontaneously discuss, in-character no less, the approach to a problem you sprung on them… and the agree […]
Closed for audit purposes…
I’m hosting a pair of scientists for a quality audit of my lab on Wednesday and Thursday (I’m a Quality Officer in a Genomics service lab). I’m more or less focused on this so I have little creative juices for this here blog. But never fear dear reader, let’s see what excellent stuff I browsed […]
New Milestone!!!
Image Source: Mille Bornes! (What? You never played that game???) This here blog thingnie hit the 100 unique visitor’s in a day mark for the 1st time yesterday at midnight. And that was before Martin’s shout-out this morning (Thanks so much, it means a lot to me)! I might as well spend a few lines […]
Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 2
This is the final part of Yan’s second Player log. See the 1st part here. At the shop everything went smoothly. Our shadier-looking members went in, pretending to be from another town and explaining they wanted to extend the market of this drug called Green Welcome. They gave the shop keeper a large bribe and […]
Big Fluff, Small Crunch
I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I […]
Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 1
This is Yan’s second Player log. He tells the story of our game from his PC’s perspective. That’s why I now leave out plot points and details form my DM logs. Yan is an up and coming storyteller and it’s fun to see him flex his creative muscles on a new venture. Thanks for fighting […]
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