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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Early Thoughts on Wave and Gaming

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NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so predictably, I've been thinking a lot about gaming lately. If all goes well, things are going to continue ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Gaming Stories

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There are a handful of stories that all gamers have, and that we pass around, ritually, when meeting each other or inducting new gamers into...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

My Biggest Game Master Mistake

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It's kind of ironic, for me, that Johnn Four picked Game Master Mistakes as the topic of this month's RPG Blog Carnival. Roleplayin...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

My Next Campaign Is A Long Way Off

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I've been thinking a little more lately about running a game again. I don't have time right now (and that's not entirely bad, be...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Dungeon Soap Operas are the Best Kind of Soap Operas

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It's been three sessions since I rolled any dice in the solo game, and before that it'd been at least five or six sessions since the...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Magic Item: Wayedge

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Taichara and Trollsmyth have both posted versions of a magic item called "Wayedge." I don't think I've ever posted a mag...
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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Fantastic Characters vs. Common Characters

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Robertson Games recently posted an interesting contribution to the on-going discussion of how to define "old school," Differences ...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

Writing as a Player

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So. Posting. It's been light lately. Trollsmyth's already covered a big part of why pretty well, pointing out that the solo game we...
Monday, August 24, 2009

I Didn't Think I Hated People Quite That Much

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Your BrainHex Class is Seeker. Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Seeker-Mastermind. You like finding strange and wonderful things or finding famili...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

An Unusual Situation

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Last week I played a little 4e for the first time. I've DM'd it before, but never sat down and ran my own character. It was pretty f...
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And the Movie Was Pretty Good Otherwise

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So there's a bit in Funny People that got my attention. One of the subplots is a pretty standard loser-comedy romance: Boy meets girl, ...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Kung Fu Cowboys . . . with Lasers

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I am seriously tempted to make this the basis for my next campaign.
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What's Old School Good For?

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I had a point that I'm not sure I communicated very well in yesterday's post, partly because, when I wrote it, I was still figuring...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Old School is New to Me

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Here's a secret: About four, maybe five years ago, one of my friends showed up to our Friday night session with a big stack of rule book...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

My Absolute Favorite Thing

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There's a point in a campaign when things have been running pretty smoothly for a while, and I've been spinning out a situation long...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Lessons from a Campaign Ended

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I ended Is This Foul? on Friday. The gang still got together and hung out, we just played Apples to Apples and 1000 Blank White Cards ins...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Get Out of Jail Free Cards

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One of the things I like about Trollsmyth's Labyrinth Lord game is that it feels very deadly. That threat of death has a number of bene...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Sort of a Death Frost Doom Review

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Death Frost Doom has hit the top of Noble Knight Games "Most Popular" list, and Lamentations of the Flame Princess hasn't ev...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Real Problem with "Kids These Days"

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Noisms has some interesting things to say about selling RPGs to kids today, commenting on some points Trollsmyth made on the same topic in ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Peculiar Challenge of Play

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I've been thinking a lot about the player side of things lately. This is unusual for me. Before Trollsmyth's Labyrinth Lord game, I...
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