As we enter into the holiday season I thought the question should be asked; do you include holidays in your campaign planning? For my part I typically plan the holidays when putting together my gaming world but rarely have the characters observe them. Why would you add a holiday or two to your campaign? For…
Or maybe I should ask, where has the time gone? Ok, I know where it went, to the offline world where family, work and other matters far more pressing that gaming (I know perish the thought!) needed to be dealt with and I have to apologize for just dropping off the face of the known…
Congratulations goes out to Yax at Dungeon Mastering on winning a Gold Ennie. Yax has a lot of great information on his site and posts much more regularly than I do (someday I may be able to post regularly again – that is if my job will get out of the way) – so if…
I was weeding through the comments posted a couple of days ago (I had a big influx of visitors thanks to Twitter) and a post that I had made back in 2006 came up – Improving Your Storytelling – Provide Choices – the comment was from Leet_Master_Ace: Could you provide an example? I’m guilty of…
About a month ago the folks at Gnome Stew had an interesting post entitled I Love My Tiny Notebook which talked about the fact that as a gamer (particular those of us that GM) we frequently have ideas pop into our heads and by having a notebook with us we can write them down for…
This past weekend just before the gaming group arrived at my house for a rousing session we lost power. Ok, since we game with pencil and paper no big deal right? Wrong. My group is slowly becoming more and more electronic in nature. Myself and one other player keep our characters on the laptops we…
