In the recent edition of the Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine (#456 Stress-Free Gaming and Time and Character Advancement in PbEM) there was a reader tip submitted title Creating While Commuting which discussed using a 3G enabled phone to create the shell information for encounters and such while traveling instead of trying to lug your laptop…
I’ve frequently mentioned Johnn Four’s excellent publication/website – Roleplaying Tips here at of Dice and Dragons this week’s issue holds a special place for me as I penned the main article, Lessons Learned from behind the GM Screen. You can read the article over at Johnn’s website which was pulled from part of the series…
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…
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…
So far I’ve covered the good, and the bad, so now I’m going to cover the ugly. These are the things that I felt went from bad to worse, and on some level I think contributed to the ending of the campaign. These are also the items that seemed to come up time and again…
In my last posting Realms of Rylon Post-Mortem – The Good I covered those things that I thought went well or were well received by the players in my campaign. This time around I’m going to focus on those things that went bad. These are the things that with a few minor tweaks along the…
