Come to me my jungle friends!
Recent events in my life have me thinking about pets. Be they familiars, animal companions or summoned animals, whatever way your system of choice calls them, why do we feel the urge to...
August 31, 2010
Improve Your Game
Dungeon Master Burnout… My cure!
Some context… I read a post by Chatty DM on twitter this past Sunday about him possibly taking a D&D sabbatical and ended up briefly tweeting with Greywulf about D20 burnout and how...
July 26, 2010
Combat Tiers Review
Recently I ran into an issue with my weekly D&D game. My players where trying to attack a dragon while it was flying away. It became increasingly difficult to track how high up...
June 30, 2010
Free Stuff Friday: Tolkien Fonts
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Tolkien Fonts Fonts? What the heck would I need fonts for? Well let me tell you...
June 18, 2010
The Worst Game of My Life
A couple of weeks ago I ran the worst Dungeons & Dragons game of my life! It was the kind of game that felt like a slow motion train wreck. Something had gone...
June 16, 2010
Improve Your Game: Character creation as a team effort
In some modern roleplaying games, especially games based on FATE rules, character creation is something one player can’t do on his own. In order to create your character you have to cooperate with...
June 7, 2010
Improve Your Game: Narrative Control
This post is the first of a series of posts in which I want to share some of the things I’ve used to improve my game. Those tips may not be applicable to...
May 26, 2010