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
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