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…
✦ Category: Advice
Are mini-campaigns the solution?
Back in the day, when we were still young and had too much time on our hands, we played in long campaigns, sometimes even…
Dungeons & Dragons Red Box Review
I received and early copy of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Red Box Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starter Set last week. It’s the first…
What’s in a name?
I’ll admit it, naming non-player characters and places in role playing game is HARD! If you are not careful you’ll end up with names…
Eureka!
Some time ago, Martin Ralya of GnomeStew.com and Engine Publishing asked me if I was interested in reviewing Eureka. I’ve read about Eureka before…
Trying something new…
I’ve never been particularly handy. I’ll write, talk in public, and I can tell a pretty good yarn (or so I’ve been told), but…
Food & Games
Don’t worry; this has NOTHING to do with all the electronic cooking games out there. This is about gamers and the food they eat…
Dicebook review
Some time ago I had the opportunity to give away a free copy of Dicebook, a PDF reader and dice rolling app for the…
Free Stuff Friday: Sword and Sorcery Saga
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Sword and Sorcery Saga Swords and Sorcery…
Writing A Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Adventure
Over the last few years I have been reading books on management and starting a business. I really enjoy reading books on these topics…
Pathfinder RPG Spellcards, for free!
I know free stuff is usually Youseph’s topic but I discovered this website this week and I’m thrilled. As you doubtlessly know I’m a…
GameScience Dice Review
Last March I wrote a post titled The Importance of Dice where I talked about how important dice are to both players and game…
Gen Con: GM’s Jam!
One of the highlights of this year’s Gen Con was definitely the GM’s Jam seminar. Since I had brought my video camera with me,…
Electronic Tools for Gaming – The iPhone
I’ll admit it, I was a holdover. I didn’t make the switch to an iPhone until last winter. Before that I had an ancient…
Carcassonne
As last Saturday’s D&D game was approaching, I came to the realization that I was not going to have an adventure ready. This has…
Special 2nd Anniversary Post: Getting your Players to Play Indie RPGs
I have been spending the last few months playing such titles as Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard and 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars so I…
Dicebook
In March I posted about Apple’s iPad and what it could mean for us gamers. Even back then there were several apps that make…
Character Death, woe or wow?
Last night I played a particularly long session of my weekly Pathfinder RPG game. During this game I killed a player character. Well that’s…
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…
DM Rewards: Tomb of Horrors Review
I got something very unexpected in the mail last Friday when I went to check my PO box. Wizards of the Coast sent me…