Category: Gaming

  • Find Your Work a Home

    Late, short and sweet, that’s the story of today’s post.  Busied myself most of the day with writing of one kind or another, none of which was a blog entry.  But since I sailed right through Monday with nary a whisper I thought I’d at least take a break between my writing and editing to…

  • Kickstarter and the Gaming Industry: Weal or Woe?

    (Note: For this post, I’ll be focusing on Kickstarter as it relates to the gaming industry and community.  Some things may apply to other creative avenues; your mileage may vary.) If you belong to the nerd community, you’d have to be living under a rent-controlled rock to not know about Kickstarter.  For those paying a…

  • READ AN RPG BOOK IN PUBLIC WEEK

    One of the things I really love about the geek community are the holidays we have made for ourselves.  It’s something I’ve not noticed other hobbies doing, but possibly because I’m just not in that group.  Do model railroaders celebrate the anniversary of the creation of HO Scale?  Do football fans have a National Pigskin…

  • Gencon Day Three: Hug your Volunteers!

    Day Three was a blur as well, but for an awful instead of awesome reason.  Food poisoning, when you are safe in the comforts of your home, is bad.  The experience is not made better by living out of hotel in a strange city.  So I’m not going to dwell too much on what my…

  • Gencon Day Two, Continued

    The highlight of Day Two was, of course, the Pathfinder Society Gencon Special.  My introduction to Pathfinder Society came through playing in the Gencon Special back in 2010, so I was excited to be a part of the GM team this time around. I won’t talk a lot about the story of the Special, because…

  • Gencon Day Two: Houston, We Have a Problem!

    If you haven’t already, you can read my Day Zero and Day One posts by following the links. Dawn broke over Gencon Day Two.  And my head.  I am used to early mornings, but I usually back up that early rising with some good ol’ fashioned sleep.  I have little to complain about with my…

  • Gencon Day One: Lift off!

    Day One of Gencon began with me leaping from bed at the crack of 9am!  Which for me is sleeping in; I normally get up between 5:30-6:30 every morning.  But add up the cumulative effects of a 31 hour car ride, an embuggered knee and a pretty busy Day Zero and my brain made the…

  • Year of the Con: Gencon

    Let’s assume I’ve made the standard excuses for a long blog absence, and you have decided to forgive me or not.  Stuff that happened during that absence will end up on the blog eventually but it is not part of today’s subject.  Because today’s subject is… Gencon! I made it back this year, against some…

  • DnD Next: Three Things I Like at First Glance

    With the start of the public play-test for the next iteration of Dungeons and Dragons recently, you have either been blissfully unaware (if you are not a gamer) or have read roughly a bazillion posts on gaming sites spanning the webz.  For those that have remained thus far ignorant, sorry to get my gaming nerd…

  • GM Advice: Letting Go of “No”

    If you’ve been game mastering for a while, the word “no” can start to feel like a comfortable old friend.  After all, you spend your sessions riding herd on players, who often have the impulse control of Ritalin-deprived, sugar-soaked 10-year-olds…or maybe that’s just my group.  In any case, it is easy to just say no…