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, […]
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 […]
The Stages of a RPG Team's Development, Part 2: Forming
In part 1 of this series, I compared a management job to that of a DM. I really think the comparison holds on many levels as you’ll find in this post and the next ones. I then went out to introduce the 4 stages of a team’s development cycle. I concluded by saying that a […]
Getting to know the player's around here…
Stupid Ranger beat me to it this morning by providing a very good answer to one of the player questions I posted yesterday when I introduced my first player. Now that I asked similar questions to your DMs (and hope they’ll continue answering as they drop by) I’d like to hear from you players, part […]
The stages of a RPG team's development, Part 1: Introduction
Image Source: The Cartoon Source. Those who know me know that I’m a very meta-(insert subject) type of person. That’s why discovering the TV Tropes wiki made my month as a DM. But tropes are not all that I find fascinating. People interaction and motivation is also a great subject of interest to me. There’s […]
Meet the players!: Yan
Last week I sent a questionnaires similar to the one here to my 5 players. I got 2 responses so far and I’m posting the 1st one today, along with editorial comments on my part. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, Race Class)? Lillie, Female Pixie Shaper with a one […]
Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters
The following is a Crunch-heavy post on tweaking the mechanics of D&D 3.5 character classes. As D&D 4e draws nearer I feel more and more comfortable with playing under the game’s hood. Something I would never had dared with previous editions of the game. One of the things that came out of last Friday’s game […]
Game Prep: The Mental State
Preparing an adventure represents about 80% of my game prep process. This includes stating the Bad Guys, setting the difficulty of the various Non-Combat challenges and creating loot that the players will appreciate. Aside: One of my last D&D 3.5 purchases was the Magic Item Compedium. This book is phenomenal and a preview of what […]
Ending a campaign
Last night we played the last of a 2 sessions Nostaligia-ride that is the re-visiting of an old campaign. About 5 or so years ago, we started our second vanilla D&D campaign with level 1 PCs. Now I don’t exactly remember what players and what characters were there when we started. It started out as […]
Time to start a new Campaign
I have been playing structured Role playing game like D&D and Gurps since I was barely 10. During the 1st year of playing that game I’ve discovered how much I liked being a DM. 24 years later, I’m still geeking out at the idea of starting a new campaign. We’ve been playing D&D 3.0/3.5 more […]
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