For gamers around the world today is a special day as it celebrates the birth of Gary Gygax the man most consider the father of role-playing games and the original Dungeon Master. When Gary was called from the gaming table in 2008 many of us mourned his passing but today should be a day of…
Gamemasters everywhere enjoy creating their campaign worlds from naming people and places to coming up with maps. It’s considered by some a badge of honor, a rite of passage – but why should the GM have all the fun? What if there was a way to include your players when you sat down to build…
This past week I decided that I needed to break up my Twitter activity, not because I tweet a lot but because I felt that by separating certain things folks could follow the accounts they want to get the information they want. Thus, I now have three Twitter accounts: @scotnewbury – this is my main…
Those guys with the pointy red hats have won another victory, this time over the Kobolds of Kobold Quarterly and we get a chance to enjoy the spoils! From now until February 9th, 2011, you can down load, for free, a past issue of Kobold Quarterly and enjoy all the goodness it contains from the…
“You only get one first impression.” This week, I finally broke down and picked up a copy of the GameMastery Guide for the Pathfinder system. I decided that it was about time as I am currently trying to get a Pathfinder game off the ground and thought this would be a good place to start….
Today marks the 5th anniversary for of Dice and Dragons and it’s been an interesting five years to say the least. In my last post, which was my 250th, I touched on some of my favorite posts over the years, I won’t go back over that ground again but would encourage you to take a…
