Tag: Tabletop

• Skwwwwwwwwwd

  

  I’d mentioned that last Sunday we had the ending to ‘chapter 1′ of my two current games, with both groups coming together to fight a [...]

   

• What do the players think?

  

  We just wrapped up the first leg of the fairly epic campaign I’m running at the moment. There are two separate groups in the same [...]

   

• Telling Better

  

  I mentioned on Wednesday my beliefs about showing vs. telling. Or at least whatever two words match that idea best in a table top game [...]

   
 

• Show, Don’t Tell

  

  Here’s something I hate to hear in a DnD game: “You turn around the corner, and there’s a dragon there.” “What kind of dragon?” “A [...]

   

• Ayippeayoo, Ayippayay.

  

  5:46 on Thursday. Oops. I have to write an encounter for tomorrow. Load up google music and hit random. First song? Doctor Jones, by Aqua. [...]

   

• What’s in a name?

  

  I honestly believe the best thing you can do to keep your players ‘in’ the game is to only use character names at the table. [...]

   
 

• Dragonzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  

  Skyrim comes out today. What’s all the Skyrim promotional material about? Dragons, of course. Here’s the thing with dragons in DnD, though. They’re really hard [...]

   

• This Isn’t an MMO

  

  I write these posts several weeks in advance. It just makes it easier for me in case something comes up. It also means when I [...]

   

• WTF is a Howler Wasp?

  

  On Wednesday, I talked about books. My self-given challenge today? Find the dumbest possible monster in one of the 3.5 monster manuals. The kind of [...]

   
 

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