My First GM
Role-play, like many other nerdy hobbies, is weird, sort of silly and incredibly difficult to explain to people who don’t partake. Like Magic the Gathering Continue Reading
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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Is it Enough?
My fondest PC gaming memories are playing single player games tag-team with my best friend 15-some years ago. It’s easy to be nostalgic about a Continue Reading
Rolling D&D Stats is Bad For You, a Reprisal
I’m starting a 13th Age campaign with my group (which includes a few Dorkadia folks) and I couldn’t be more excited. We just finished a Continue Reading
Knights of Pen & Paper
Two weeks ago I became the proud owner of a brand new Galaxy S III. It felt like I’d finally been given the golden ticket Continue Reading
An initiation into The Secret World
The Secret World recently converted from a subscription model to a free to play with a subscription option. Surprisingly, and completely unlike Star Wars The Continue Reading
The One Ring: Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild Review
It is a tricky thing, capturing existing stories in roleplaying games. As Reuben said, all of Western fantasy has its roots inextricably tangled up in Continue Reading
A Fast and Furious Review of Savage Worlds: Deluxe Edition
Savage Worlds isn’t a first choice. It’s not one of those super-massive RPGs that pull you out of a normal existence and into the orbit of Planet Continue Reading
The Christmas RPG Gift Guide
RPG enthusiasts are a hard group to buy for. Our games are intimate things that exist more in the bonds between each other than in Continue Reading
Faster GM Prep for Fun and Sanity
As I had written before, I had set three personal goals for my new 4E Eberron campaign. The most important goal was to not stress Continue Reading
Your First D&D Experience
About a year ago, I was recruited into an excellent Dungeons and Dragons game. It had recently lost a player after the game had been Continue Reading
On the Diving Board: A New 4E Campaign Checklist
Finally! My group and I are jumping into a long term campaign, run by yours truly. We’re diving into Eberron, my favorite published D&D setting, Continue Reading
FTL: A Solid Budget Bite-Sized Roguelike
At just $9.99, FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games was an easy impulse buy. But even after playing it for a few hours, I couldn’t Continue Reading
Romancing the Monkey Man: Og Unearthed Edition
This past Friday my friends and I gathered around a table for some serious roleplay. We got our character sheets out, our dice out, pulled Continue Reading
Darksiders II brings Death to life
I want to live in a world where Darksiders II isn’t on my short list for video game of the year. That is surely a Continue Reading
Tenderpaw: GM Lessons from the Guard
As I had written, I started running the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game for my group three weeks ago. The first few sessions were bumpy. Quite Continue Reading
Sevencore – Thoughts and Opinions from the Closed Beta
I’m apparently a sucker for beta tests. This weekend I spent several days immersed in the world of Sevencore, a new free to play MMORPG Continue Reading
Tenderpaw: Starting the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game
Shout it from the mountain tops: I finally get to play the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game. Despite owning the books, I have yet to try Continue Reading
Anime style arcade action go!
Lately I’ve been putting a lot of hours into Rusty Hearts. For those that are unfamiliar, Rusty Hearts is a free to play action MMO. Continue Reading