How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Right. So. It's Ye Olde 3.5 Edition D&D. Eberron. The players are Snakeheart, who was in the Traveller game and the LotFP game as we...

I'm running a 3.5 D&D game. Why am I running a 3.5 D&D game? It's an abiding mystery. Sometimes the call comes, and you just...

The end of another year means, among other things, it's time to look back at last year's New Year's resolutions. Go to GenCon Su...

From the comments on Trollsmyth's latest post, among similar sentiments: "The smell of marketing arouses in me the lust to kill....

I had this frankly rather bizarre revelation the other night. I think I've mentioned on here before that the last couple of games I'...

I want to make clear: I respect Grognardia and most of what James Maliszewski writes there. I wouldn't have linked to him or taken the t...

I suppose going "Ew! Ick! Furries!" isn't quite as troglodytic as going "Ew! Ick! Gays!" but it's pretty dang c...

There's been a flurry of furious activity on Trollsmyth's blog about how you should use rules to frame the game's core activit...

If I'm thinking about picking up and running Pendragon, does it matter what edition I go with? I'd prefer having an actual copy of t...

DREAMLANDS MAGIC Dreamlands critters have a whole soul. - can't divide soul from body - can't invest soul into objects (permanen...

After some thought I've come to the conclusion that the main reason I had as much trouble with the game on Friday as I did was that I di...

I suppose I haven't ruled out law or business school entirely yet (though law school is basically off the table for now), and I might en...

Have you ever just completely frozen as a DM? Sat down to play, with notes that a week ago you were sure would be more than enough to run a ...

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...