Coming soon – The Dungeon Master’s Handbook Podcast!
Michael / Chgowiz I’m launching a podcast in early December to share the love of old school Dungeons & Dragons campaigns! This old school gamer is coming out of the blogs and into…
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ChicagoWiz’s Goblins
The poor, maligned goblin. First shown as some sort of a strange dwarf-like creature in 1974 D&D … then reintroduced as a small, fierce but weak creature in 1st edition…
Heading to GaryCon X – Events submitted!
The TENTH GaryCon is coming! Holy cow, where did the time go? It’s coming and I’ve submitted three games for consideration. I’m hoping to play as much as I can…
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…