Innocence of Youth Everyone thinks of little kids as cute and innocent, but they’re really not. That’s learned behaviour. We teach them morality and what is acceptable and unacceptable. If given a license to misbehave or act “immorally” in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadvantage Rolling d20s is a little like playing blackjack. Sometimes, deal after deal after deal, you’re sitting above 16. And other times you can pull five-card trick after five-card trick. Except that you can’t hit – let alone crit – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Supernatural 1 “I’m not last in initiative, I’m first in initiative for the second turn.” There are advantage to going last. The battlefield has been established and the enemies have closed the gap between themselves and the party. You know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hasta La Next Round I mock but it’s really not too hard for a DM to swap in reaction to a better witty response. As retcons go, that’s super easy and doesn’t really affect play much. Unless the remark is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Play it as it Lays The firm rule at my game table is that rolls don’t count on the floor. Otherwise there’s the temptation to strategically count good rolls wherever they are while rerolling bad rolls. But, man does it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Dice Attack I once sat down to do the math on how many rolls would be needed for a proper distribution of rolls with a d20. And by “did the math” I meant “plump formulas into Excel until the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the Trail I’m a child of the ’80s. I should have played the infamous Oregon Trail dozens of times as a young kid. Especially as I was raised in the ‘burbs in a well-off school with many a computer. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Party vs Party At the time of writing I’m planning a mini-campaign of Madness at Gardmore Abbey, converting the 4th Edition adventure to 5th Edition. Which, so far, has been pretty darn easy. The encounters copy over fairly well, all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lift With the Legs I hate losing. It sucks. Nobody really likes losing though, and it takes a long time and some harsh parental skills starting from a young age to instill positive losing skills as well as gracious victory […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An Honest Mistake I have never done this. I live in constant fear… but I have never done this. I have a love/hate relationship with gaming snacks. Snacks are good, but it’s hard to roleplay with a mouth full of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pisa Has Nothing On It Sometimes you just need to do something with your hands at the game table. Something to keep busy while the focus of the adventure is on another player or your character is so stunlocked they’ll […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Moment of Pure Terror I’m totally running into this problem. I want to keep my 5th Edition Player’s Handbook pristine. I took that bad boy to GenCon 2014 and got it signed by Rodney Thompson, Mike Mearls, and Jeremy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
