I survived Shopocalypse 2010. I’m off today, Christmas Eve, and I’m not going near a retail store. I’m exhausted, but work life starts to normalize again and I get to spend a three day weekend with my family of friends. The ex-wife contacted me to tell me she was putting Bitsy the Hamster Dog, my … Continue reading
What do you do when you love and care about someone? Do you call them names? Say things or use language that you know will offend them? Ridicule, criticize, and disrespect them? Bully them, harass them, belittle them? NO. Because that’s called VERBAL ABUSE, and when you love and care about someone YOU DON’T DO … Continue reading
Every game group occasionally has those nights when one player can’t make it, but everyone else still wants to play. Usually, the character of the missing player goes temporarily AWOL or gets run NPC-like by the gamemaster. This week one of the players in our Pathfinder group (my girlfriend Katie, to be precise) will be … Continue reading
The first time I met Katie was December 20, 2009. I know this because a group of our mutual friends were going to see Avatar in 3D, and I save my ticket stubs. I was there, she was there, and really, that was about it. We were introduced, but didn’t have a lot of opportunity … Continue reading
If you’re just tuning in, go back and read Part 1 & Part 2. I’m thinking about the takeaway from this rules hacking, and the next steps. Before I present it to any players I’ll have to clean up my verbiage a little bit, and if I wanted to publish it I’d have to do … Continue reading
If you’re just tuning in, go back and read Part 1. There are a lot of different ways I could go here. What I want is simple: simple, simple, simple. I don’t want players to have to spent a lot of time adding up die rolls. At the same time, I want nuance, degrees of … Continue reading
Foreword by Justin Achilli. Edited by Jonathan Jacobs, Kameron Franklin, Berin Kinsman, Tony Law, Ben McFarland Inside Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 2 you will find timeless interviews with Dave Arneson on the roots of roleplaying games, Robin D. Laws on RPG theory and game play, and Jonathan Roberts on his … Continue reading
Open Game Table, The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs aims to bridge the gap between the RPG blogging community and the broader table-top gaming fan base by showcasing the best talent in the RPG blogosphere. Within these pages are nearly fifty blog posts from dozens of top-quality RPG blogs chosen by the fans who read … Continue reading
Ken St. Andre once told me that one of his major motivations for writing Tunnels & Trolls v7.5 was to make the game easy for him to run at conventions. That’s a great goal. As I’ve gotten older I look at new game books and no matter how brilliantly designed and appealing they may be, … Continue reading
