Future Plans
While Roberto is providing you with a constant stream of awesome videos tied into this year’s RPGaDay, I am musing about what kind of…
✦ Category: Random musings
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 7: How can a GM make the stakes important?
Welcome to Day 7 of #RPGaDay2018. Week 2, day 2 of How… week. The question for today is: How can a GM make the…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 5: Favorite recurring NPC?
Welcome back to Day 5 #RPGaDay2018. Thank you for coming around for our Sunday post. The question for today is: Favorite recurring NPC? Let…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 4: Most memorable NPC?
Welcome to Day 4 of #RPGaDay2018, our first Saturday post this month. Thank you for coming around on the weekend. The question for today…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 3: What gives a game “staying power”?
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…
#RPGaDay2018 – Day 1: What do you love about RPGs?
Here we go again! By now you know the drill… I disappear from the blog for a couple of months and the come August…
Making Monsters
I have been away for the past two weeks touring Iceland. Iceland is a country with a rich mythology of trolls, elves (the hidden…
Special Super- Duper Must Have Cover! Coming soon…
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…
Adventure Writing is a funny old thing!
I have the opportunity to write some adventures for an official publication. What the publishers are after are standalone scenarios of about 8 to…
Our Hobby Is Dying!
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…
Games I’ve Played
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…
Where is the FUDGE Fantasy?
I am rather taken with the FUDGE system. It is a long way removed from my usual mainstay of Rolemaster but reading the Ghost…
5th Edition Session Zero
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…
The Long Way To Tal’Dorei
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…
Excited about D&D again!
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…
Destiny As A Tabletop RPG?
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…
What Am I Playing Right Now?
Since my GM hiatus started back in June 2017, I used the opportunity to play in as many games as possible. For a very…
World of Dungeons: Turbo–Breakers
Wow. That’s a mouthful. The long name is especially funny when you realize that the rules of the roleplaying game with that name is…
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes
Aside from being a table top roleplaying aficionado, I also love to play computer games of all kinds. Recently I’ve started a couple of…
Blogs vs. Social Media–From a RPG Blogger’s Perspective
Since I started this blog almost 10 years ago, a lot of fellow RPG bloggers have stopped blogging or moved their activities from their…