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…
Sitting Posture I’ve noticed that the longer a game session goes on, the less i’m actually sitting. I start standing to set-up combat and move minis, but soon just remain standing rather that return to my seat. Because I’m just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Nine This is the Session that Would Not Be. It was first delayed because one player was out of town, and delayed again because another player’s work scheduling a weekend training session. *sigh*. I have two goals for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Eight With a long, long month between sessions I had lots of time to prep, and plan, and scheme. But, with Christmas, the winter break, and my son, much of my time will be taken up being a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session 7.5 My BorderLands campaign is on Holiday Hiatus until early January, assuming things go as planned. With the longer gap between blog entries I’m taking this opportunity to write about campaign details unrelated to planning for a specific […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Seven It has been said that none of the Gamemaster’s plans withstand contact with the players. My last session was a good reminder that the Dungeon Master is also a player, because I totally messed up all of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Six As I start planning for my next session I’m really planning for my next two sessions. With the game killing one-two punch of Christmas & New Year’s Eve looming, my group is meeting two weeks in a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Five In the third session of my campaign, I planned an encounter on a road running alongside gorge, with a steep cliff on either side (one going up, one going down). It was the perfect ambush location, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Four With one of my players on vacation, I have twice as long before my next game. I’ll still probably spend close to the same length of time seriously preparing: just under a week. It’s a little like homework; […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Three My last gaming session closed with a soft ending. There wasn’t a cliffhanger or element of danger, but neither was there a looming question or new side quest. The party had left the desert behind and found […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Two At the end of each session I like asking two things: what’s your plan and when’s the next session? The first question is theoretically more important: what are the characters going to do next? Are they stealthily […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session One Roll for initiative!! That’s how I want to start my forthcoming campaign. I think I tried doing this once before and choked. People got distracted and not everyone was at the table. Plus there wasn’t the initial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
