Unrelated Preface: I had dinner with Yax of Dungeonmastering.com on Monday night. He’s in Montreal for a few months and I’m glad I got to meet a fellow blogger. Yax sure is passionate about what he does and he has a plan… (which makes him a Cylon, obviously. Don’t be fooled by his boyish Dr. […]
Meet the players!: Stef
Image Source: WotC’s Player’s Handbook II There we are. After 5 weeks, here’s the last player profile of my gaming group. For the other four, have a look here. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, Race Class)? Nogard Rinevedne, 1/2 dragon Barbarian (Chatty DM: When you read the name […]
Why do you Play?
Image Source: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness d20 cover. Hot on the heels of the ‘Why do you DM‘ post, and to address the 64% of readers that play at least some of the time, here’s the follow up questions: Why do you play a player character in a tabletop RPG? What are the top […]
Case Study: Power (Gaming) Storm
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 4: Norming
We continue with the third topic in this discussion on the life stages of a RPG gaming group that borrows heavily on the work place team development concept. So far we covered the definition of a RPG Team, it’s forming stage and the harsher storming stage. When the storm becomes unbearable there are two choices […]
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