In High School, nearly every Saturday at Sion‘s house meant three things for me: GURPS, Swiss Cake Rolls, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. We were big fans of the show, and kicked off many a game session with a bad movie. Of course, when the show went off the air (with an excellent finale) we […]
Nothing kills a fight faster than starting a combat.
Image Source: Fiery Dragon Productions A few months ago, while reading the most excellent, and sadly concluded, DM of the Rings webcomic, I came upon a very inspiring strip. I wrote a forum post about it but I’d like to re-edit it here instead of letting it fall off the 20th page. Shamus’ cynical comments […]
Meet the players!: Eric
Image Source: Ubi Soft’s Prince of Persia, The Two Thrones Two weeks ago, I sent a questionnaires like this one to my 5 D&D players. I got 4 responses so far and I’m posting the 2nd one today, along with my usual editorial comments. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, […]
David Airey's Anniversary Giveaway
To celebrate his first, and astoundingly successful, year David Airey is having a humongous prize giveaway with some amazing things included. If you’ve never been to his blog, David is an extremely gifted writer and designer and his blog continuously has some of the best design content I’ve seen around the web. This contest ends […]
Has it been 2 months already?
Image Source: Old-translated-to-French Manga called Mini-Fée. Yax and the Stupid Ranger crew (Stupid Ranger,Vanir and Dante) celebrated their 2 months on the blogosphere earlier this month and it made me realize that I started at about the same time. Woot, 2 months, 60-some posts (I ain’t called Chatty for nothing!) , 2000 total page views […]
The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 3: Storming
Let’s forge onwards in this ‘D&D and Workplace teams are similar’ analogy. With the four stages of a team’s development concept, we’ve covered the introduction and the forming of a new RPG gaming group. Now onwards to the choppy waters of a Storming group. Storming Half the players are reading from their manual, fiddling their […]
Obligatory Blog Social Meme: Four on the Floor
Wow, a few days shy of my 2nd month doing this Bloggy buisness and I’ve already been tagged by The Stupid Ranger for a thing called a Meme. Now having read both of Brin’s uplift Trilogies I know that a Meme is a lifeform made out of ideas!!!! So I am basically being infected! Never […]
Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Running on the Edge
Image Source: Gamespot 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. All right, so Marty’s dead now and we need […]
Real Ultimate Showdown Round 2
[This round is over, go vote in the FINAL ROUND] Vote on the Round 2 Matchups now! Remember, vote for who you WANT TO WIN and not necessarily who you think would win in a straight up fight. Voting ends at Wednesday, September 26 at 11:59PM EST. Especially for those of you still in the […]
Selling Fluff to a Crunch Diehard
I’m a crunch junky, always been and I know it. I love the rules especially those involved in the creation of monsters (I’m looking at you Mr Chaos-Shaped Were-Boar Ogre!) In fact, that’s probably why I like reading stuff by Mike Mearls (Iron Heroes, Book of Nine Swords, Book of Iron Might) so much. That […]
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