Welcome back to Day 5 #RPGaDay2018. Thank you for coming around for our Sunday post. The question for today is: Favorite recurring NPC? Let me tell you a story about a non-player character…...
Welcome to Day 4 of #RPGaDay2018, our first Saturday post this month. Thank you for coming around on the weekend. The question for today is: Most memorable NPC? Here are my thoughts on...
Welcome to Day 3 #RPGaDay2018, we’re here to stay! The question for today is: What gives a game “staying power”? I’m going to tackle the topic from two perspectives in the videos, the...
Here we go again! By now you know the drill… I disappear from the blog for a couple of months and the come August I’m back for #RPGaDay2018 Thankfully my fellow posters keep...
I have been away for the past two weeks touring Iceland. Iceland is a country with a rich mythology of trolls, elves (the hidden people), viking sagas including berserkers, sorcery and witchcraft. It...
I have mixed feelings about the D&D Core Rules Gift Set announced by Wizards of the Coast. True, a gift set with the core books and a screen could be useful for a...
Currently an article is discussed all over social media which claims that White Wolf Publishing is actively marketing towards a new audience: Nazis and the alt-right. On first glance some of the points...
I have the opportunity to write some adventures for an official publication. What the publishers are after are standalone scenarios of about 8 to 10 pages in length but statted for three different...
This is a claim we all have heard before. I am pretty sure that this notion first started just weeks after D&D was first released. For some reason people all over the world...
Recently my friend Roberto posted on Twitter about all the games he has played over the years. Including the various D&D editions, he has played over 70 different games in his gaming career...
If you are active on Twitter you might have noticed that people have recently begun using the hashtag #DnDGate while posting about literally “gates in D&D” or how what their gateway into D&D...
I am rather taken with the FUDGE system. It is a long way removed from my usual mainstay of Rolemaster but reading the Ghost Ops quickstart and Early Access booklets was a real...
Yesterday evening my players and I met to speak about D&D 5th Edition, the Tal’Dorei setting, and eventually create their characters. I was actually surprised how much thought the players have already put...
Repeatedly I have praised D&D 5th Edition as my favorite edition of the venerable fantasy RPG, but I’ve actually not played it that often nor would I consider myself part of the D&D...
I made the mistake of looking closer into Matthew Mercer’s Critical Role videos. If you haven’t been living under a rock you probably have heard about Critical Role already. In this series of...
Since it was first announced I was intrigued by the universe portrayed in the Destiny video games. It’s set into the future long after the golden age of humanity. This golden age started...
Since my GM hiatus started back in June 2017, I used the opportunity to play in as many games as possible. For a very long time I was basically the go-to GM for...