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 […]
Meet the players!: Math
Image Source: Shamus Young‘s most excellent DM of the Ring Webcomic (used with permission, thanks man!). Here’s the fourth Player Profile from my gaming group. All previous profiles can be found here. What character do you play in our current D&D campaign? (Name, Race Class)? I play Aravar, an elven Duskblade that’s been tweaked out […]
New Milestone!!!
Image Source: Mille Bornes! (What? You never played that game???) This here blog thingnie hit the 100 unique visitor’s in a day mark for the 1st time yesterday at midnight. And that was before Martin’s shout-out this morning (Thanks so much, it means a lot to me)! I might as well spend a few lines […]
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, […]
Meet the players!: Eric
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Where you guys come from…
I’m going to commit a little blogging sin and go meta-blogging here. I’ll make it up with a Gaming Post today, honest! Yesterday I was looking at where people link from to get here and the planet is indeed a small place. (I took out the ones that stayed less than 1 minute, those were […]
My turn now!
Thanks so much for those who answered the Getting to know the DMs questionnaire. I have read all the posts and will check periodically for new ones. I even put the post in my ‘favorite links’ on the page to allow anyone to answer later on. Now it’s my turn. I won’t directly recycle stuff […]
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