January 2018 – Paul's Gameblog

January 29, 2018March 31, 2024 Paul

Contested Will Probabilities

D&D, OED, Role Playing

In follow up to yesterday’s post, I did the work and calculated out the chance to lose control of an intelligent sword in OD&D. Here’s

January 28, 2018March 24, 2018 Paul

Ego Through the Ages

Role Playing, Through the Ages

Oh my gosh, I’m writing a “Through the Ages” post! You thought this was dead – so did I. I was just prepping for TotalCon

January 26, 2018 Paul

GenCon Attendance

Conventions, GenCon

While it’s been several years since I attended GenCon, I find tracking its growth really fascinating. Wikipedia maintains a nice visual graph of attendance numbers,

January 25, 2018October 18, 2019 Paul

Convention Game Scheduling

Conventions, TotalCon

TotalCon game registration just completed, GaryCon registration is opening soon, and I still have to figure out what games I want to run at Origins.

January 23, 2018January 23, 2018 Paul

Combat vs. Exploration

D&D, Role Playing

A bit of OSR kool-aid I drank long ago and I now regurgitate regularly is the notion that old school D&D is more heavily focused

January 22, 2018March 28, 2018 Paul

Complexity in 5e

D&D, Role Playing

So this article went around recently with the headline “Dungeon & Dragons’ revival helped by simpler rules, storytelling“. Now, I feel like I’ve heard this