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 […]
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 […]
Big Fluff, Small Crunch
I’m still working on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth-Pokemon game for my 5 year-old son. I also read Dante’s and Martin’s excellent post on Improvising. I’m taking notes here! I bought 2 starters of The Pokemon Trading figure Game. My son whips my butt on a consistent basis and he loves those spinning figurines. I […]
DM Chronicles, Session 3: Of Pools and Crashes
Image Source: WotC D&D Miniature Game After having skipped a week from our usual bi-monthly game, I was really looking forward for this week’s. One of our players, Stef, had to stay home because his Wife was away and he was with the kids. So I offered to move the game over there. So I […]
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 […]
Random Thoughts Table: Adaptation Blues, Deaths and Grappling
Image Source: Necromancer games’ Mother of all Encounter Tables. It’s Thursday and as I’ve seen a surge in reading on that day, what better time to serve a post of mini-musings? I’m playing tomorrow and I’m taking the evening off from prepping and blogging to recharge my mental batteries before the game. But as I […]
Let's sweeten all that Crunch with some Sweet20
Image Source: Chatty DM’s game room It’s no secret, since the seventies, D&D has arguably been mostly about two things: Kill Stuff Take their loot A lot of people were content with that (and still are). I have been for a long time. However, as I played D&D 3.0, and later 3.5, I realized that […]
Dive in this bowl of Crunchy Hit points
Image Source: Do I really need to? 🙂 I’m prepping this week’s game tonight so I’ll keep the post a bit on the short side. Greywulf commented on this post earlier today* and shared his most excellent tricks to save time in RPG combats (dude, I’m like Keanu now, whoa!) One of his tricks literally […]
Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Let them see the light.
Image Source: D&D 3.5 Monster Manual This is part of a series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki. “I’m sorry, you’ve never faced a […]
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