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
Random musings
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
Ask The Readers: What do you want to see in a revised edition of WR&M?
I am currently collecting ideas for a revised edition of my rules-light fantasy game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Aside from a better presentation I want to add things I missed last time, add...
June 10, 2010
Field Report (part 2): Alien Survivor (via Lady Blackbird)
That is the most convoluted title to any of my posts… But I digress! When we last left out intrepid heroes (i.e. my players) we were about to play Alien Survivor. Let me...
June 10, 2010
Why isn’t Gears done yet?
As you probably know, I have been working on the roleplaying game project “Gears” quite a while now. In the meantime I even released an early draft to the public, which looked pretty...
June 7, 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
Geeknic II: The Revenge!
Hello all! I’m in a particularly good mood writing this post, because despite all the real-life complications of recent weeks, this past weekend I took part of a gathering of geeks that reinforced...
June 1, 2010
Free Stuff Friday: One Monk Miniatures
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: One Monk Miniatures. The only thing better then miniatures are free miniatures. This is just a...
May 28, 2010
Gaming enablers, giving thanks to the people that matter!
Too often we hear horror stories about games. And by this I’m not referring to the anecdotes of the terrible player who sat at your table or the really inept game master who...
May 27, 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
Ask the Readers: Keeping up with super current events!
Yesterday’s post about supers and my very personal ideas an advice on the genre have generated some very interesting comments, and got me thinking about other topics. My, Ask the Readers poll is...
May 21, 2010
Ask the Readers: What flavor of superhero do you prefer?
I still have supers on my mind! All the comments and discussion on my previous post left me wondering, what character would you rather play in a supers game? And thus this poll...
May 21, 2010
HERO System / Humor / Just my two cents / Mutants & Masterminds / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG
I’ve got supers on my mind…
In my years as a Game Master I’ve run a lot of campaigns, fantasy, sci-fi, modern, space opera, but no genre has proven as difficult as the superhero game. Sometimes I muse about...
May 20, 2010
Hey Wizards of the Coast! Where Are My Apps?
This is a questions that has been bugging me for almost a year now. Why have Wizards of the coast not made any Dungeons & Dragons apps for the iPhone? The way I...
May 19, 2010
Pixelated wizard fight fire breathing dragon!
Well today has certainly been a day for nostalgia! I loved console games in the late 80s early 90s and some of them were of great influence in our gaming. A friend ran...
May 18, 2010
Campaign Inspiration
Growing up I was never interested in fantasy books. I could not stand them. To this day I still find them difficult to read. In my minds eye I know what a dragon...
May 14, 2010
Old dog, meet new trick!
Hello all… I’ve been silent for a couple of days since I spent it from Spectrum Canine Dog Training, actually more than a couple; thirteen days to be exact. Sorry for my silence,...
May 13, 2010