Category: Gaming

  • RPGaDay August 26

    What hobbies go well with RPGs? At first I wasn’t sure how to answer this one, since I didn’t really see the role-playing hobby as excluding one from other hobbies. Want to sky dive and be a gamer? Go ahead! Xtreme philately? Do it! But I guess there are some hobbies which pair better with…

  • RPGaDay August 25

    What makes for a good character? Good characters need a few things. First, the player has to want to play it. Seems pretty obvious, but I’ve run games where a player ended up playing a class they weren’t fond of because the group needed it, and hated every minute. If the player isn’t excited about…

  • RPGaDay August 22-24

    For some reason I cannot fathom, my posts from the weekend didn’t go up right away. Instead, they both posted Monday. Monday’s and Tuesday’s posts were about to go the same route, but I seemed to have fixed the issue. So I apologize if you got post spammed Monday. To cut down on that, I incorporated…

  • RPGaDay August 20

    Most challenging but rewarding system you have learned? I’ve had systems which challenged me in different ways. When I was ten-years-old and just diving in to this crazy hobby, “getting” Basic D&D was a bit of a challenge. I didn’t understand hit points for the first few sessions I played, and therefore didn’t realize why…

  • RPGaDay August 19

    Best way to learn a new game? I don’t know if it’s the best way, but it works for me. After I’ve skimmed the rule book to get an idea of the mechanics and setting feel, I roll up a character. I don’t worry about min-maxing or making the “best” character for the game. Instead,…

  • Catching Up on RPGaDay

    Yep, it’s been a heck of a week, so you all get another catch-up day. And I will hopefully begin doing these daily like I’m supposed to tomorrow. Enjoy! August 13: What makes a successful campaign? Player buy-in. You can develop the perfect campaign world, populate it with cunning monsters and interesting NPCs, tailor plots…

  • RPGaDay August 12

    What game is your group most likely to play next? Why? A hard question to answer, as I’m currently GMing several groups. I’m coming up on a pretty even split between Pathfinder and D&D 5e between them, and as I’m just starting or am in the middle of campaigns, we’ll be playing them for a…

  • RPGaDay Double Feature!

    (Because “RPGaDay Double Feature” sounds better than “I was sick yesterday and didn’t post”.) August 10th: Largest in-game surprise you have experienced? Years back I played in a Shackled City AP campaign. I was playing a Lawful Good human monk names Ceres, and we had progressed through the campaign with the usual trials and tribulations.…

  • RPGaDay Catch Up!

    You’d think, after doing RPGaDay for a couple of years that I’d remember it was coming up. You would be wrong. So here is my standard update post, bringing us from August 1 to today. Daily posts will begin tomorrow, as is my wont. August 1: Real dice, dice app, diceless, how do you prefer…

  • Do It In Public!

    Read an RPG Book in Public, that is! Why, what were you…naughty! Promoted tri-annually by The Escapist, Read an RPG Book in Public week is meant to raise the profile of the role-playing hobby and show our love for what is normally a behind-closed-doors activity. You grab a favourite RPG book, find a public area…