How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

I have the first two books. I've seen the DMG but I don't have my own copy yet. I've played a fair amount (all online) and am be...

Figured I'd do a bit of public brainstorming Archdemons/Prime Evils Angels with mysterious agendas Many races of fiends swarming ov...

How often do you actually refer to a specific date (October 1st, third day of the first moon of spring, etc.) or year in your campaign, rat...

Here's an e-mail I sent to the players in my new Adventurer, Conqueror, King game this morning. We've had one session, mostly charac...

When I say that RPGs are "amateur hour" I mean a couple of different things. On the one hand that term has a pretty negative conno...

Wow has it been a long time since I posted. Some updates-- I play a lot of Magic now . It's basically a once a week (or more) habit. T...

I spent most of this weekend at or recovering from Magic 2013 pre-releases. I have a great game store (Comics & Gaming in Centreville) a...

So say I wanted to run a Traveller campaign. And say I wanted to do it with an irregular player base-- potentially a large one, and potentia...

I've been playing tons of Magic lately and I spent the weekend loading almost all of my collection into Deckbox. (There are a couple of ...

I've been doing surprisingly little gaming recently. There's the Buffy game and the GURPS game and little bits of craziness in betwe...

This was originally an e-mail to one of my players. In the GrimDark Future, There Is Only Racing You're a racing team in an over-t...

Joceyln the cabbage-growing peasant has had a VISION. The slitherous ST. SERPENTOR has come to her IN A DREAM and told her to GO FORTH! and...

Just to be clear, I'm talking about an emotional response. I don't have a problem with Jim Lee drawing sexy women.  He's good at...

I don't usually post about my personal life or work here and I plan to keep it that way, but I thought I'd just post a few of these ...

D&D, in all editions, has a lot of rules for combat. That's generally what the majority of the game's rules are for, even when i...

In the comments on Zak's latest post, bombasticus writes: Now that you mention it, though I almost want to run a really decadent Thir...

Foxboy is getting old World of Darkness books in the mail. He's got players lined up and he wants us all to be Tremere in a small town d...

I dig Vancian magic I think it makes sense, has a lot of flavor, and makes it pretty easy to handle magic. It also admits a lot of variation...

Didn't win NaNoWriMo, which I'm okay with. At about 35k and still working on it. We'll see where that goes. I'm trying to ge...

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...