This morning, I posted about my Winter adventures on the forums here. That’s my car if you were wondering… after I dug it out! Shortly after, Omnius, who’s allergic to snow I’m told, wrote a good weather-themed post. Well all that snow and ice also inspired me to go dig in the TV tropes site […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Gravity? Pfaa!
It’s been quite some time I’ve posted an honest to goodness, fluff-rich Mining Tropes post. I’m also nearing the end of the tropes fueled by the Rule of Cool, so I combined two tropes that share a certain ‘airy’ theme as a tribute to a sub-series I really enjoyed writing! Asian Wire-fu and Anime is […]
(Not so)Mini-Crunch: Killer Cyborg Ogre Ninja
When I opened the forums last weekend (come on, join us!), I created a ‘technical issues and complaints’ board. In order to fluff it up, I wrote that it was being manned by a smiling Killer Cyborg Ogre Ninja. Somehow this sparked enough interest for some readers ask to have it stated up. While I’ll […]
DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 2
Blog lessons learned: Never post a ‘Part one’ on Wednesday night… it guarantees no comments on the highest traffic day! Next time’ 2 entries articles’ will posted on same day with a few hours in between. See here for part 1. When a Custom Scene Blows Up in Your Face So the players made their […]
DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 1
Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder, Lamia Matriarch, copyright 2007 Paizo publishing (under Fair Use). Please note that this post features spoilers of Paizo’s Pathfinder #2, more precisely the nature of it’s boss monster. Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes vanquished the last Child of Sehan, squared off against a Succubus (and won), dodged deadly traps and […]
Tabletops & Tropers: That would make such a…
While looking at the TV Tropes Wiki for inspiration for my next trope post, a recurring idea kept coming back. You know that thing where a bunch of gamer geeks come out of the latest Superhero/Spy/ Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy movie and they have this discussion: “Dude, this, like, totally rocked!” says the extroverted enthusiastic geek! “Yeah, ’twas […]
Adventure Prep: When Fun and Logic collide…
Woot! It’s game week again! Since this week’s game is the 3rd session in and around a Tomb dungeon, and since the adventure is pretty much prepped since last week, I was thinking of skipping this week’s prep article in order to focus on the campaign’s next chapter (Where Planescape meets Ptolus). But then I […]
Mini-Trope: The Bad, The Killer and the Evil.
So far I have been doing a lot of posts about DMing tropes, but what about tropes on DMing? (This post is very satirical. If anyone is offended by this… well let’s just say I’d rather not play in your game…) When you ask RPG-savvy people to describe a cliché (or a trope) about DMs, […]
The special challenge of DMing for adult gamers
There is quite an interesting discussion going on over the Okay…your Turn RPG forums (a very classy, mostly D&D/Iron Heroes/Arcana Evolved/ Ptolus gaming forum) about the Dungeon Masters having become the Dungeon Servants. This discussion brought me additional insights about a subject that has been brewing in my mind for some time now. You see, […]
Adventure Prep: Tomb Re-engineering 101
Okay, I got sick last night, probably with the same bugs my wife and kids have been fighting these last 2 weeks. Hopefully I’ll get better for Friday’s game. If not well I just might have to pull the plug on it no matter how I’d much rather not do this. This week’s Adventure prep […]
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