Use a burn down list to keep from running out of ideas

  When I came across the above tweet from SlyFlourish in my feed the other day I tagged it as something to follow-up on as it hit a nerve with me. In one of my many roles at my day job I manage projects and tweet speaks to a tool used in Agile Project Management…

Three mountains

The power of three

Today marks a rather special convergence, at least for me anyway. This is my 300th post on the blog, it falls on 3/3 and today, at 3:30, I have an appointment to pick up a ‘new’ to me vehicle – that’s a lot of threes and must mean something. To be honest, the number three…

Brick building as a tavern
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Add a little flavor to your tavern

“You meet at the local tavern . . . . . . . ” How many times have you heard that at the gaming table? The tavern is one of those locations that every game seems to have and frequently used as a stop over, a way of meeting a contact, or just picking up…

Image of Spock's funeral

Rest well Mr. Spock

Today the world lost an icon. Leonard Nimoy will always be remembered as Spock, I know that’s the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name. While that is far from the sum of everything he was, that legacy will carry on and it is my hope that my children and grand…

Going beyond the twists and turns

Going beyond the twists and turns

Every group as their favorite characters, NPCs, and sessions they’ve played, of course almost every group as their least favorite thing about the game as well. In my group’s case it was mazes. Looking back on it I probably didn’t run the few I used as well as I could have and Mediaprophet over at Run…

Favor role-play over roll-play

I come across a lot of interesting posts and pieces of information as I wander across the Internet and came across a post Simple is Good by Troll Lord of The Dens. It’s a short post that talks about the the fun he recently had with a weekend full of gaming, something I think all…