Getting Organized to Create My New Campaign

 Organization is the key to any successful campaign – not just in warfare but also in gaming. In the past I’ve always grown the organizational scheme for my campaigns organically but this time I felt I needed to take a different path. In my last post, Knowing when to say goodbye, I stated that I…

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…

Rest in Peace Ray Bradbury

He gave us many iconic stories and novels over his life and I remember reading some of them as a kid as part of my “sci-fi education.” Below is a great clip of him at Caltech on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit around Mars. I would have given anything to be in that…

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…

Six years old today – State of the Blog

Another year has passed and of Dice and Dragons has reached the age of six – Happy Birthday! One of the nice things about birthdays is that they come every year and you can make them as special or as bland as you want. Over the last six years I’ve mentioned this milestone on occasion,…

A Fighter, A Wizard and a Bard walk into a bar . . . .

No, there’s no punchline coming, and to be honest there wasn’t a bar but there was a fighter, wizard, and bard involved – played by my three children. That’s right the next generation of my clan has started their journey into role-playing games and it was both a high point and a low point so…