Don’t Know Anything About a Game? Write a Player’s Guide…
I thoroughly enjoy trying new RPGs with my gaming group. New genres, new adventures, new games revitalize me as a player and as a GM. Sure, I can adapt my existing game to play new stuff–but sometimes...
View Article30 Days of Gamemastering: Part Eleven
This is part eleven in the continuing series of posts for the “30 Days of Gamemastering Challenge” from Triple Crit. House rules: what are your favorite hacks, mods, and shortcuts? My relationship with...
View Article30 Days of Gamemastering: Part Thirteen
This is part thirteen in the continuing series of posts for the “30 Days of Gamemastering Challenge” from Triple Crit. Rise to the challenge: how do you balance encounters in your system? This is...
View Article30 Days of Gamemastering: Catching-Up Edition
This is part of the continuing series of posts for the “30 Days of Gamemastering Challenge” from Triple Crit. I’ve been road-tripping with the family for the past week, so I’ve gotten a little behind...
View Article30 Days of Gamemastering: Part Twenty-Nine
This is part twenty-nine of the continuing series of posts for the “30 Days of Gamemastering Challenge” from Triple Crit. Teaching the rules: how do you sell players on the system while running a demo...
View ArticleRoleplaying in the RAW
I’m in the midst of my first Pathfinder campaign and things are going fairly well. It’s a rules-heavy system, so there has been a lot of looking up and puzzling out various arcane codes to figure out...
View ArticleRoleplaying in the RAW–Part Deux: Off-Label Gaming
A while back, I wrote about roleplaying in the RAW (Rules As Written). Essentially, I said that I generally like to play in the RAW unless I really feel comfortable in the rules set because of all the...
View ArticleRules Lawyers, Min-Maxing, and Rule Number One
I am a role-player. A ROLE-player. I love to get into stories, characters, world creation–all the non-crunchy, fluffy bits of RPGs. I love that its it’s a living novel. Like Robin D. Laws said, RPGs...
View Article