This is a repost from Greywulf’s blog. It rings true enough to my needs as a role player to warrant a re-post. Although I can live with 3 core books… 😀 Maybe if enough of us post this, some wizards who work by the sea will take notice. If you agree, please say so in […]
Expanded quarters for the Overlords and his Minions (i.e. New Forum!)
I’ve been sitting on this post for two days, it was supposed to go up tonight, but screw it, 3h00 PM EST is evening in Europe… close enough. Well, it’s done. I have been asked if I could add a forum to this blog. While I love the feeling of back and forth generated by […]
Call to all minions!
It’s been while since I made a Crunch Overlord post (I can already hear Yan groan). But as I did last time I’ll actually add some usefull RPG table psychology stuff. Its also a community thing, I hope you won’t be too offended if I call you minions… 🙂 Also just so were all on […]
I dig my new digs! Thanks everyone!
The move is done and the furniture is in place. A few things will stay wonky for some time but all critical things are in place. The Fortress of Crunch is open for business! (Try fluffing me out of this dear Mr. Baur! Mwa Ha ha ha!!!) I’d like to thanks the following people who […]
Guest Post: Perspective on Weekend Wizards: A Half-orc's venture into the wild.
This is PM’s second post of his Casual Player approach to D&D. Once again, PM’s wry humour entertains us in his tale of confronting his fears about that nasty multi-headed beast that is Role-Playing! Last week, my inner half-orc took a few steps out of the closet and while it was a bit scary out […]
Guest Post: Perspective on Weekend Wizards from a closet Half-Orc…
Image Source: PM himself with a little help with a South Park creator, I would guess. Chatty DM: Welcome to the first of what I hope will become a series of posts by PM. PM is a friend of ours who has yet to succumb to the sweet call of RPGs, but the Evil Overlord […]
Yet another Milestone
This is just a short meta-blogging message to mark my 100th post in this here blog. I can’t believe that in only 10 weeks I wrote between 70 000 and 100 000 words already! Isn’t that like a novel or something? While I originally was doing this for myself and some of my players (and […]
The Emotionally Smart DM: Introduction
Image Source: The Epic Barbarian, Wizards of the Coast. Having finished the series on the 4-stages of team development in terms of an RPG gaming group, I’m now tackling a new one: Joining the concept of Emotional Intelligence to successful DMing. Think about the best DM you’ve ever played with, or if you’ve never had […]
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 […]
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