How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

So! That game. First session went fairly well. One of the players was expectedly late, one was unexpectedly late, and another didn't sho...

Here’s the second round of bullet points from Gen Con. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this time. Talked about the disappointing Wizards booth ...

Starting up a new one tonight. The system is Lamentations of the Flame Princess. The players are all women. One is completely new to rolepla...

Gen Con was the best four days I've had in a long time. Maybe ever. Lots of reasons for that, some more blog-worthy than others. Since I...

Trollsmyth and I have been talking about fiddling with podcasting for a while now, and at Gen Con had a couple of conversations we thought w...

JB's had an interesting post up recently about how every campaign has a "Robilar." One player who's a lot more into the g...

So it turns out that I'm an idiot. I was completely and utterly wrong about there being no old school vendor presence at GenCon. Over on...

I'll have the first bit of my GenCon report up later tonight, once I've gotten a chance to load up and go through my pictures. I hav...

I'll have a longer report (complete with rants!) when I get back, but one point so far at GenCon stands out enough that it's worth t...

Wednesday night will find me in Indianapolis for the four days during which it is the greatest city in the world -- or so I am told, since ...

Good stuff happening on the blog-o-sphere lately. But you knew that. If I was willing to deal with fiddly, 3.5-style character abilities aga...

For those times when you go "You *finally* arrive in Small Town #3. After a bit of asking around, you find out that there's a sale ...

Role-playing is a social hobby, and a being able to be identified as a growing thing is the best way to get more people playing. Absolutely ...

Zak S asks why none of the guest stars on I Hit It With My Axe could get any boys to let them play when they were teenagers. (NSFW) If I h...

I just wanted to take a moment to echo LotFP and RPG Blog II in encouraging everyone to vote in the ENnies, especially since a number of ...

How much do you talk with the GM about the kind of game you want? Or to your players about the kind of game they want you to run? Do you pre...

Does system matter? Is there one roleplaying system that you prefer to play above all others? Are there systems that you absolutely won'...

Trollsmyth has a really excellent piece up today about personality inventories, or "stress-testing the character concept." This i...

The old high school gang is kinda-sorta getting back together this summer for some gaming. I say "kinda-sorta" because right now t...

This is something that kinda came up in the comments to Wednesday's post, but I thought was interesting enough to go after on it's o...