Trust Nothing Anything around you could be a mimic right now. Your desk. Your couch. Depending on the skill of the mimic, maybe even your computer. Is your dog being unusual quiet? Mimic! Your bike tires seem flatter for no […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tomb of Stories One of the reasons reprints of classic adventures are so popular is that there’s a shared narrative experience. You hear stories of the Tomb of Acererak. People ask what you did when you saw the Green Devil […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nuking Sometimes you just don’t want to do the rest of the dungeon. The risk is too high and the reward seems too low. It’s just not worth getting yourself killed over, let alone painfully torn apart and eaten. It’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bring the Boom Spells like fireball and burning hands make the distinction that only bits of paper and kindling you’re not holding burst into flames from the spell’s effect and that anything you’re holding is immune to the ravages of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sixth Wall I’ve never pulled the trigger on Dwarven Forge. It looks cool, but you need so much money and space to get even a moderate amount of dungeon coverage. I’m happier with flat maps and some 3D terrain to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tomb of Rage Comics I ran through the Tomb of Horrors using the Tales from the Yawning Portal reprint and my players had a lot of fun. But there was this one moment where they had just entered the tomb and were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Raunchy Reading Savage humanoid art is probably fairly explicit. They likely have paintings and carvings that borders on the obscene. Especially a race like orcs that is all about violence and the strong dominating the weak. Their reproduction likely isn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gaps in the Universe I don’t have a giant Chessex battlemap. The really big ones are cool. And I have a table more than large enough to accommodate such a map. But they’re pricey. Instead I have two smaller ones […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swarm Funding I think 90% of my time on Kickstarter is spent backing RPG projects. I’ve backed a few video games and board games, but I always come back to fancy RPG products. Thankfully, I have a very high success […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Soul of Darkness I enjoy Dark Souls but am utterly and completely terrible at the game. There’s a good argument for how every game should have a difficulty slider, because I’m missing out on the experience of the game (and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Engage the Senses I should have some comment or musings here about how a good Dungeon Master engages all the senses with the descriptions: describing not just what players see but what they hear and smell. But I can’t, because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Barrier to Entry This has happened to me in a several campaigns without a rogue, where the gamemaster has brought progress of the plot to a sudden halt with a simple lock. A few instances were organized play campaigns, where […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
