Chronicles of Etinerra – September post
Michael / Chgowiz A lot has happened in my campaign world since I last wrote about it in … well hell, it’s been almost a year! I have three campaigns currently running in…
How I Started My Sandbox
Nine years ago, I started on a little experiment. Over time, it grew in directions both bad and good. Over those nine years, I’ve blogged a lot about my Dark…
Cheap Water Effects for Inexpensive Terrain
It all started, as many things do, by hearing someone else talk about an experiment. In this case, it was by a Twitter user named @qyjari (Anne Palmer): Well, that…
Sandboxes and Players – They Make The Story! (Part 2)
Yesterday, I started a (soft) rebuttal of DMDavid’s analysis of sandboxes and why players “don’t like them.” I’ll continue that today and wrap up with some thoughts. David continue in…
Sandboxes and Players – They Make The Story! (Part 1)
I’ve found a couple of interesting blogs over the summer that have made for some interesting reading. One of which is DMDavid’s blog – he seems like a nice guy,…
Campaign movement at wargame and D&D scales
Gary Gygax famously wrote that Dungeon Masters must keep careful track of time in their campaign, for ensuring that player resources were being used, for tracking for wandering monsters/encounters, and…
Tucker’s Kobolds or The DM as the Monster
“Sly Flourish” aka Michael Shae asked something on Twitter this past Saturday morning that got me to thinking… Mike asks a lot of questions, mostly from what I would call…
D&D at the Library – Session 2 – The Caves and the Circus
I run a D&D 5E game out of my campaign world at the local library’s monthly Board Game Night. It’s a great way to introduce new people into D&D, to…
GenCon Wrapup – Picture Heavy!
GenCon 50 is over and it was, in a nutshell, crazy awesome and freakin’ overwhelming. The area was ginormous. The gaming hall was huge as in, it took serious minutes…
See you at GenCon & a Swords & Wizardry hint…
Wow! The 50th GenCon is just a couple of days away! Will I see you there? Are you in any of my games? Here’s what I’m running… stop by and…