OK, I’ve put off blogging about Checkpoint Zulu for about as long as I could. I know there are still some folks out there who
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The Silk Guild
OK, as long as we’re talking about improv at the gaming table, let me tell you of the time the carousing table gave me D&D
Improv and RPGs
I am certainly not the first person to mention how much roleplaying games benefit from the improv concept of “yes and.” Here’s a good post
HelgaCon XI
HelgaCon has come and gone — it seems to go by quicker every year. This year we had a nearly full house with 23 gamers
Dice
Like most gamers, I am a bit of a dice junky. The bizarre contradiction is that while I enjoy buying interesting dice, I rarely enjoy
A Touch of Insanity
I’m starting to hear some feedback from GMs using insanity cards in their games, and one of my favorites was a story from Ryan, who
Two DMs and a Convention Game
Yet another topic that has spun out of GaryCon for Dan and I is this – how would you run a convention game that utilizes
Be the Referee
Large player count D&D games and games focusing on investigation have a common problem, and I think, a common solution. Both types of games have
Managing Downtime
Dan wrote a great post about natural healing through various editions of D&D, and as usual his research is thorough and accurate. After reading it,
Big Parties
There were a lot of interesting things going on in the Bill Web game Dan and I played at GaryCon, but the most stand-out detail