Quick and Easy Friends
I am all in favour of an easy life. Although I have never played 5e it [D&D] hasn’t changed that much in past 40+…
✦ Category: Advice
Guest Post: Combat of the Thirty
Handling chivalry in RPGs is hard. Genre fiction loves chivalry and honor almost as much as it loves jaded pessimism – and it often…
Kickstarter: RPG Smith
This is just a quick update to let you folks know that the Kickstarter campaign to fund the RPGSmith (check out my article about…
Easy NPC Reactions
Michael recently posted about the 3hex style of starting a game off easily with minimal prep. I thought I would share a technique that…
RPGSmith
A couple of days ago, David Sumner, co-founder of RPGSmith got in touch with me and told me about his free web application. RPGSmith…
All good things come in Threes…
If you have followed my blog for a while you surely must have noticed that there’s a certain white whale I am hunting for…
Podcast Recommendation: The Dungeon Master’s Handbook
This is a quick follow-up to my last post. I got in touch with Michael Shorten aka ChicagoWiz and asked him for advice on…
From my reading list: ChicagoWiz’s RPG Blog
I really, really want to run a new game for my friends, but I am still not sure if I am a) ready for…
Lazy Tuesday Video Post: Rules Lawyers
We all know the kind of player who constantly gets into rules discussions with the GM. These players are often called rules lawyers. But…
The Mercer Effect
Without a doubt, Matthew Mercer and the rest of the Critical Role team has had a huge impact on how many people perceive roleplaying…
Confessions of a terrible GM
Ok, I am probably not that bad, but sometimes I feel that way. I’ve run games that were terribly boring, extremely formulaic, and I…
Organizing my tabletop RPG library
I have a huge collection of roleplaying games. Aside from a lot of books which are scattered all over my house (we even have…
Getting Back Into The Game
Everything is not rainbows and butterflies when it comes to roleplaying games in the house of the Stargazer – far from it. If you’ve…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 21 and 22: Which dice mechanic and non-dice mechanic appeal to you?
Hello everybody… although I posted my videos yesterday on my YouTube channel and the channel for Desde la Fosa, I neglected writing a post…
Quietly beavering away
Today’s RPGaDay2018 question is something like “Which non-dice systems appeal to you?” This made me think of a strange little RPG called ABS 12.…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 19: Music that enhances your game
Today for day 19 of #RPGaDay2018 the blog is alive with the sound of gaming, specifically the sound of music that enhances my games!…
#RPGaDay2018 – Playing catch up for Days 11, 12 & 13
I mention that I plan on not falling behind on my #RPGaDay2018 posts, and I miss two days… jinx! To be sincere, getting ready…