Image Source: Necromancer games’ Mother of all Encounter Tables. It’s Thursday and as I’ve seen a surge in reading on that day, what better time to serve a post of mini-musings? I’m playing tomorrow and I’m taking the evening off from prepping and blogging to recharge my mental batteries before the game. But as I […]
Real Ultimate Showdown Round 3
[This round is over, go vote in the FINAL ROUND] Eight groups enter, only four will advance. The epic battle to determine what is the coolest thing of all rages on. Some unexpected warriors have made it this far, but they still have difficult battles ahead of them. Below are the four match ups for […]
Ia Ia Etc Etc
Yeah, so, pretty much inevitable: LOLCats + Cthulhu = LOLTHULHU. My favorite so far is “I HAS A COLOR, IT FROM BEYOND SPACE.” Meanwhile, SuicideGirls News [NSFW] argues that a mysterious undersea noise coming from a gigantic undersea creature (known to scientists as the Bloop) actually already has a name.
Let's sweeten all that Crunch with some Sweet20
Image Source: Chatty DM’s game room It’s no secret, since the seventies, D&D has arguably been mostly about two things: Kill Stuff Take their loot A lot of people were content with that (and still are). I have been for a long time. However, as I played D&D 3.0, and later 3.5, I realized that […]
Dive in this bowl of Crunchy Hit points
Image Source: Do I really need to? 🙂 I’m prepping this week’s game tonight so I’ll keep the post a bit on the short side. Greywulf commented on this post earlier today* and shared his most excellent tricks to save time in RPG combats (dude, I’m like Keanu now, whoa!) One of his tricks literally […]
YouTube of the Week: Let's Blow This Thing Edition
Music from the Star Wars musical synched to the original footage. I was reminded of it after the excellent Family Guy Star Wars episode last Sunday.
First Impressions: Chuck, Heroes, and Journeyman
I caught NBC’s Monday premieres tonight: the series premieres of Chuck and Journeyman, and the season premiere of Heroes. Here’s my quick thoughts: Chuck was a lot better than I was expecting. It’s not the out and out comedy that the commercials make it out to be, but it was very well directed (by McG, […]
Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Let them see the light.
Image Source: D&D 3.5 Monster Manual 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. “I’m sorry, you’ve never faced a […]
Inq. of the Week: Halo 3
The most obvious choice for this week is to ask everyone about Halo 3, and whether you couldn’t care less or if you’re already waiting in line checking the site on a laptop or your iPhone! But first, let’s cover the results of Dave’s question about upcoming sci-fi shows premiering this week. The results are […]
The craziest, shortest, game I ever wrote/ran.
Image Source: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho Martin over at Treasure Tables had a recent post asking DMs what were ideal gaming sessions and the shortest ones we’re comfortable running (Quick Answer, 4 hours, 2 hours). That made me think of the shortest, craziest one-shot game I ever GMed. It was right before D&D 3.0 and, like […]
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