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 […]
Real Ultimate Showdown Round 4
[This round is over, go vote in the FINAL ROUND] The final four combatants… or is that the fatal four? The fighting grows more intense in this penultimate round of the Real Ultimate Showdown. Venture on to vote for WHO YOU WANT TO WIN in both match ups to determine who will advance the final […]
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 […]
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 […]
Off for my trimestrial cardboard crack fix
It’s 6h00 on a Sunday Morning. My 5-year old son is watching Captain Flamingo on the Tube. I’m looking at the blog’s stats ,still somewhat bemused to have at least 58 unique visitors day in day out (I need to go to California, apparently they dig me over there!). I’m also touching up on typos […]
Meet the players!: Franky
Three weeks ago, I sent a questionnaires to my 5 D&D players. I finally got all 5 responses (in exchange for 750 xp each) and I’m posting the 3rd one today, along with my usual editorial comments. See here and here for previous postings. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, […]
DM Chronicles, Session 3: Of Pools and Crashes
Image Source: WotC D&D Miniature Game After having skipped a week from our usual bi-monthly game, I was really looking forward for this week’s. One of our players, Stef, had to stay home because his Wife was away and he was with the kids. So I offered to move the game over there. So I […]
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