The Gamer’s Notebook

The Gamer’s Notebook

Welcome to Of Dice and Dragons and the July RPG Blog Carnival! This month we’ll be talking about all those wonderful things that surrounds The Gamer’s Notebook. It’s been just over seven years since the RPG Carnival touched on this topic and it was actually hosted here as well. You can check out that piece…

Use a burn down list to keep from running out of ideas

  When I came across the above tweet from SlyFlourish in my feed the other day I tagged it as something to follow-up on as it hit a nerve with me. In one of my many roles at my day job I manage projects and tweet speaks to a tool used in Agile Project Management…

Who doesn’t enjoy exploring the sewers?

Who doesn’t enjoy exploring a maze of tunnels, dead ends, and rooms full of creatures to battle? The GM that’s who. It’s something that a lot of GMs like to run, but it’s something that many of us don’t really enjoy planning out. The encounters are easy enough, but creating a map of all of…

The closing of an era – Good-bye RPG Blog Alliance

Today is a sad day. Today I received an email in my inbox announcing that at the end of April the RPG Blog Alliance will cease operations. While I am saddened to see the Alliance close down as it’s been the source of a lot of interesting reading over the years, I am also glad…

Starting a new tome, moving to OneNote

As we find so often in life, including at the #gaming table, sometimes you just have to say good-bye, and I’m saying good-bye to #Evernote as my organization tool of choice. Back in April I mentioned that my GM binder was Evernote, and at the time that was correct. In fact Evernote has been my…