Hell Worthy Trespass This is absolutely the worst. I try to be a forgiving person. Believing the best of people and having faith that individuals aren’t monsters until they prove otherwise. And the best way to prove otherwise is to not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Slippery When Wet Sometimes the most effective and deadliest hazards are the mundane, commonplace dangers we ignore even in our day-to-day lives: the balcony without a proper safety rail, the uneven staircase, the old ladder, and the slippery floor. Because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Backup Plan When the party completely jumps the rails of your story and turns your carefully planned adventure into train wreck, sometimes you save elements of the adventure. An NPC can be brought back, an encounter could be used in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
School for the Gifted Whenever we get to a locked door, one of the players at my table invariably asks this question, only half teasing. Because he knows the GM is the kind who will teasingly reply “the door doesn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You Shall Not Pass I showed this comic to my wife and she just sneered and said, “that wouldn’t stop most women; they’d just march right in. It’s boys that have the problem going into washrooms.” Oh well. I still […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Annihilated True gaming story. I’m running my group through the Tomb of Annihilation adventure and there are quite a few deadly death traps. Traps where if they reduce you to 0 hit points you just die outright, being decapitated or ground […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Surprise? The birth of my son killed my 4th Edition D&D campaign. Well, the fact that the birth almost killed my wife had more to do with killing the campaign than my son himself, but the birth didn’t help. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So Many Contractors A friend of mine is running a Starfinder game, and this happened. A space station got all blown up, and there was the question: does the party get credit for killing everyone on the space station. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ostog the Untenured Ostog the Unslain was a barbarian character played by the publisher of Paizo. I recently reviewed the Pathfinder 2 playtest, trying to get my voice heard in the hope of improving the final product. I also made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Appropriately Named When a party get a bag of holding, everything they need gets dumped inside. And some things they might need. As well as a bunch of things they could conceivably need. And a whole pile of stuff that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Draw of the Art Hypothetical here. I’m not aware of any new D&D cartoon. I’m a fan of the one from the ‘80s, which I own on disc. I’ve even forced it on my lilltle dude a couple times. A […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Change is in the Air The public playtest for Pathfinder 2 dropped the other day, with hard copies for those who pre-ordered and PDFs for everyone else. I’ve been slowly working through the documents and might eventually gets some thoughts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
