Category: Gaming

  • DnDtober the 8th: Tieflings

    In a previous post I talked about some of the changes I made to the races in my D&D campaign. At that time, most of the changes were fluff changes; I had adjusted how some of the races had come to be, without really touching their racial stats. But as I looked at tieflings in…

  • DnDtober 7th: Ogres

    Most encounters with ogres result in plenty of screaming and not an insignificant amount of bloodshed. Few people experience the fun, playful side of ogres, or are even aware ogres have a fun, playful side. But when not terrorizing the local population or being terrorized themselves by random adventuring parties, ogres enjoy any number of…

  • DnDtober 6th: Displacer Beast

    Yes, I missed a day. A cold grew from the con crud, and and blossomed in my lungs. Don’t worry, I’m back on track and I’ll make sure to slip some posts in for the days I’ve missed. I think you’ll especially like the goblin entry… But today is DnDtober the sixth, which means displacer…

  • DnDtober 2016

    Surprising no one who attends conventions, con crud is real and it sucks. My Expo-sized crud laid me low last week, so I apologize for the abrupt hiatus. But I am back, reasonably hale and hearty, and raring to jump back into gaming nerdery. Travis Molina created an art challenge for the month of October,…

  • DnDtober the 1st: Goblins

    Ah, goblins! The canon-fodder staple of many a D&D campaign. For most of gaming’s history, goblins have been little more than low-level XP sacks for beginning characters. I feel that goblins didn’t really come into their own until Paizo re-skinned them into the psychotic, fire-loving menaces they are in the Pathfinder RPG. So wonderful is…

  • RPGaDay August 31

    Best advice you were ever given for your game of choice? The best piece of advice I was given was for GMing in general, and it was a “lightbulb” moment for me as a younger game master. That piece of advice? “The Game Police Don’t Exist.” Which is to say, the gaming company is not…

  • RPGaDay August 30

    Describe the ideal game room if budget were unlimited. My ideal game room, and one I’m currently working away at as time and budget allow, is best described as “Retired Adventurer”. I want the room to look like the den/library of a retired adventurer. So a fantasy medieval look overall, decorated with keepsakes and treasures…

  • RPGaDay August 29

    You can game anywhere on earth, where would you choose? I’ve had to break the answers to this question down by type of game, because of course the RPG makes a difference. Fantasy (D&D, Pathfinder) – I’d pick any of the dozens of still standing castles throughout Scotland or Wales. I’d prefer something on the…

  • RPGaDay August 28

    Thing you’d be most surprised a friend had not seen or read? Fifteen or twenty years ago, I used to be shocked when I’d discover someone who hadn’t seen or read something I’d been enjoying for years. Like Star Wars. How do you be a geek and not see Star Wars?! As it turns out,…

  • RPGaday August 27

    Most unusual circumstance or location in which you’ve gamed. I’ve run and played RPGs in a variety of unusual locations over the years. I have, in years past, taken the Greyhound to Gen Con which works out to a three day trip. One year, encountering other gamers on the bus, I ran a D&D game…