When I first started of Dice and Dragons one of the things I did was start a series of posts with Encounter Ideas that you could use in your campaign and I thought it was high time that we revisit that idea with a new encounter – The Shopkeeper. Most folks will know the shopkeeper…
After posting my last article Establish a Rules Policy – Part 2 a comment was left by Ooklamok which included a few questions about what do you do if the ruling you are discussing would kill a PC. From his comments: If the outcome of a rule “discussion” is going to effect something major (i.e….
In case you missed it, be sure to check out Part 1 of Establish a Rules Policy. In part 1 of **Establish a Rules Policy we looked at the printed materials and determined versions, supplements and the need to set an order of precedence – the only problem is, not everything is covered by the…
There are few things that can destroy an evening of role-playing as quickly as a rules argument and while your group may not have encountered this particular beast at the gaming table it’s worth looking at. Every group will be different but you should lay some ground rules on the gaming rules you’ll play by…
This was topic was originally published in Roleplaying-Tips as a Reader Tip (Use FreeMind For SRD Import) but I thought it was worth walking through it one more time, with a few more screen captures to help show the whole process. Please be aware that while the “official” release of Freemind is at 0.8.0 I’m…
It’s sometimes surprising just how often you read something and you say to yourself “hey, that’s me!” I had one of those moments as I was catching up on all the reading I’ve been neglecting over the last week or so. In his blog posting Using TT to Prep for a Game: A Case Study…
