How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. That's one reason why I've been quiet lately. (Other reasons: Not gaming as much as I was, not runni...

So on Google Plus the other day, in a discussion of why I don't read comics and maybe other people don't too (short version: they...

At the behest of noisms. Stats are provided in the form of references to similar Pathfinder monsters, along with any modifications necessar...

The process of generating situations in the way that I described yesterday is much, much easier for me when the style of the game is a well...

On Friday I made mention of "figuring out my DMing style," in service to what was really another point entirely. What I was talki...

[[Other people have said stuff like this before, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Especially the bit at the beginning. Al...

These are the guys our GM won't let us play: The Boozer, who can control alcohol the way some heroes control water or fire, and creat...

After a long dry spell (there was a two-month period where I wasn't gaming at all), I've suddenly got more gaming than I know what t...

In response to: I mean this in the nicest way possible: I don’t care if an RPG uses “he”, “she”, “him or her”, or “it” as a pronoun througho...

Most of this is from college (Somewhere in the last four months of college I discovered beer, and not too long after that I got into the hab...

I played Old School Hack last night, with Risus Monkey, a few of his regular players, and Gaptooth, and it was pretty great. I have a goo...

I make no statements as to their appropriateness re: The Hobbit film adaptation. I don't really care. But if I were to run a "stand...

As part of my post-college real world social networking initiative, I dropped by my FLGS on Friday. (Game Parlor in Chantilly, if you'r...

This deck is very much a work in progress, and very much shaped by the particular cards I have available in my (still quite small) pool at t...

Have you heard of BrokeAss Gourmet? If not, you probably should go check it out, even if you're not "broke." (If you are, you...

Lately I've been making an effort not to watch movies. I'm not really sure why. Possibly just because my family watches so many of t...

I've finally acquired what might be described as a work wardrobe. Amusingly, after going through nearly a dozen stores (with Dangerfox, ...

Building on comments on my post yesterday -- In my experience with western martial arts -- which is, admittedly, limited to longsword fight...

There's been a bit of discussion in the ol' blog-o-sphere lately on shields, and how to make them more effective. This is all well...

Headed out to my friendly not-so-local gaming store on Friday (the closest one doesn't do Friday Night Magic) and came back with a deck ...