There’s Tiranor and Geiri, deep in the frozen lands of Forochel, about 30 seconds before we both hit level 50
Category: Musing
Drama Llama: Level ?? Boss
I have this annoying little thing I do whenever anyone is telling me about some kind of personality conflict going
A few random thoughts
* No, no tabletop gaming thoughts at the moment. I’d have to be doing some of that to have any.
Not happy
Today finds me pondering (once again) the way that my blogging “life” is currently divided and partitioned off. Once upon
To my gamer-homies that don’t live within 10 minutes of me…
I’m seriously thinking about this camera (thirty bucks, so… less than a tank of gas), plus Skype (free), for in-home
The one where he figures out why he often screws up Primetime Adventures
So, there’s this thing going on with my Gaming People where PTA isn’t working for us. We’ve put Dave’s current
Hacking the DnD Action Point rules
So I looked over the various gaming threads that had come out of discussions of Action Points and how they
Fueling the game engine with your gaming group.
A thought from Story-Games on how to achieve a certain amount of “success” with running an indie rpg with your
The One Where He Totally Geeked Out Like a Mid-1980s Gamer Nerd ((Hacking DnD 4 into Lord of the Rings))
I noticed early on that LotRO’s main conceit about their “Health Bar” really really works in DnD 4th with regards
Technical Difficulties
A staff writer on Massively.com writes a bit about how he really got into Age of Conan, and then stopped
DnD Skill Challenges
Skill Challenges are a new wrinkle in DnD skill use that aim to make said skills use… well, more interesting.
“Keys” for DnD
For a longer-term DnD game, I am seriously considering using something like the experience point system in The Shadow of
Dealing with the whiff-factor in DnD
Played some DnD last night. It was good. I will talk about that more in a bit, but for now,
Watching the 4.0 DnD release
… is a fascinating kind of car-crash voyeurism. Lots of folks into gaming have never really tried anything outside of
For the nerd on your Father’s Day list
Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I’m sorry, I’m just hearing too much good stuff about it. The indie roleplaying community
How Conflicts Work (PTA, Galactic, and many many more)
So in this post, I’m going to talk about some different games and how they deal with conflict resolution. Specifically,
“I kick it (old school) for 1d6+2 damage.”
So a few weeks ago, I was poking through an old chest of junk from high school and found something
Playing Wrong… Right
So Paul Czege (author of the RPG My Life with Master) has something really interesting to say about that game
“Let’s not create a WoW-widow before we even get married, hmm?”
… or, to be fair, a Gaming-widow in general. I’ve been giving my Google-calendar a workout for the last couple
Fiddling with my global cooldown
Cooldown: n. MMO-related. A period of wait time before a spell, ability or power can be used after that same
Week in Review: Done with PvP
Okay, that’s not entirely true. I like WoW battlegrounds. I like WoW Arena. I even like flagging myself for PvP
Building Excitement
It is a very special kind of activity that, when discussed (even in the abstract) via any medium, actually makes
Motivation in Games
Penny Arcade discusses why people play games. Kate said to me “yeah, I definitely play to explore the game —
Game Mechanics that set the tone
So I’m musing about game mechanics; have been for the last couple weeks, actually, because I’m playing a lot of
Religion in Gaming
We need more Starbucks: the character, not the coffee. An interesting take on probably the most believably religious character in
Year in review
Yes, I know it’s not the end of the year yet, but since the holidays typical kill my gaming, I’m
[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases
From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from
Wish Fulfillment
Last night, Kate and I were running around the edge of this orc camp up the Greenway a few miles
Casual/Hardcore vs. the Serious Gamer
Okay. This is going to seem like it has a lot to do with MMO gaming, but at it’s heart
Splitting the Party
A good, though old, discussion about the histrionics and misconceptions that surround ‘splitting the party’ in gaming sessions. Are you