I’m not good at planning so I resigned the right to call myself an improv gamemaster with the ability to come up with crazy stuff on the fly. However that was the case in previous years, but for some reason […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Musings: Low Dice Rolls
“Insert the foulest language possible” “What did you roll?” “A 2! This proves there is no god.” That is what my last Tuesday Dungeon Crawl Classics was like. I wasn’t the only one with crap rolls. It seemed as if […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Musings of Silly Games
My favorite adventures to write are silly ones. I mean sure, a serious and terrifying adventure where the odds are against you are, great once in a while, but I love laughing more. I enjoy throwing my players in a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I ran DnDNext games at PAX East this year and, as always, had a blast. Though one would think I got my kicks from running the Mines of Madness, which were pretty fun and I nearly TPK’d one party twice, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So recently I dropped out of my biweekly Rifts game. For those who do not know what Rifts is, I did a review of it in an earlier blog post so go check that out. There are a couple reasons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lately I’ve been asking myself am I a good game master? I’ve been thinking about this because I run two games and I’d like to think my players are having fun. There’s always laughter and joking in my games, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This past weekend I concluded a campaign that I had been running for about two and a half years. We started in September `09 and only ended because three of my players were leaving. Had I had more time to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is what I did at Pax East. A lot of this will be scattered and probably not too interesting. The exhibit hall was okay. I don’t play too many video games these days, but I would’ve loved to have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Art of the One Shot
We all know of the glorious role playing game one shot. For those who do not know, a one shot is an rpg that is to be played once and unless the players or game master chooses to extend it. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Hello, I’m Frederick Vonjingle Epperstein,” The distinguished gentleman with the moustache and monocle said. “Hello Fred,” said everyone else. “I have a problem. I am evil.” Today’s subject is evil characters. We all know the evil character. It could be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…