Home-brew or Published?

I thought I would start the year off polling the community at large, do you use a home-brew campaign setting or do you prefer to use a published campaign? I’ve never been a big fan of published campaign settings, it just a personal taste. I’ve always preferred creating my own setting, pulling together all the…

Inertia

Today over on Critical Hits Vanir posted about Momentum for your D&D game and his challenges with it. It’s a good read and it echoes challenges I’m sure many of us have encountered over the years. While he talked about momentum, which is good if you have it, and how to get things rolling again…

Knowing when to say goodbye

Knowing when to say goodbye

We’ve all been there at one time or another – we know deep down that it’s time to move on, but we continue to hold on, hoping that things will get better, or you still bask in the accomplishments of old. Such is the case with Rylon. Back at the beginning of the year I…

New Year, New Game

Can I add new campaign to that? The folks over at Gnome Stew have issued a challenge to gamers this year – run a new game. Most will take that challenge as a reason to go out and buy a new game system but in my case I’m using it as the catalyst to finally…

Returning to the GM Chair

It’s been nearly four years since I last sat in the Game Master’s chair but in just a couple of months I’ll be returning to the hot seat to run a new campaign – sort of. For those that have been reading this blog of a while or subscribe to Johnn Four’s ezine, Roleplaying Tips,…

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It’s alive! The Blog that is.

For those that subscribe to of Dice and Dragons, you probably saw an email or saw a series of posts show up in your reader over the last 24 hours and already had a suspicision that something was going on. Well, after 11 months of hiatus I’ve decided to breath some life back into my…