Category: Gaming

  • ENnies Thoughts

    As I’m spending my Easter long-weekend reading through the many, many ENnies submissions we have received so far, I thought it was a good time to take a break, drink a coffee, and talk about a few of my thoughts for this year. First, the deadline for submissions this year is May 4 (details on…

  • Uncaged Volume One: Updates

    I was just going to add this to my previous post regarding Uncaged Volume One, but there was just too much! The hardcover version is now available through Drivethru’s print-on-demand. And there is a special bundle price if you want the PDF and print copies together. Which is what I did; the PDF is easier…

  • Uncaged Anthology

    Good morning! I won’t bury the lead: I edited a few of the adventures featured in Uncaged Anthology, which is available today over at the DM’s Guild! I was lucky enough to see this project come into existence in real time on Twitter. It started as a question posed by Ashley Warren about a series…

  • RPG Blog Carnival: Making Deities

    This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is Divine Worldbuilding, which comes at a fortuitous moment as I have had to begin designing a pantheon or two for my home campaign. I really should have given it thought much sooner, as I have two clerics and a paladin split across two groups. When it was just…

  • January 14 Article at The Rat Hole

    I wrote a thing over The Rat Hole today, talking about a recent tweet by Matthew Mercer and the latest surge of TTRPG gatekeeping. Give it a read and let me know what you think in the comments, here or there. I’ll see you Wednesday for our regularly scheduled posting!

  • Welcome to 2019!

    Bit late to the party, I’ll admit, but welcome to 2019 everyone! This past year was…interesting. Definitely low points, some personal, some societal. On both fronts, though, 2019 seems to offer hope, so I choose to focus on that. You’ll start to notice some small changes around the site in the coming weeks and months.…

  • Recommended Viewing

    YouTube continues to deliver a plethora of tabletop related videos this month. Experience Points finished up the second season of its titular series and teased a third season, then began delivering an excellent new series. Thanks to folks on Twitter I also discovered some new channels and shows in the last few weeks. Let’s take…

  • November RPG Blog Carnival: Worldbuilding

    This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is all about world building, something I’ve been doing a lot of for my two D&D 5e campaigns. I thought I’d share a little something from the primer I created for my players to help give them a sense of the world. While I generally kept the mechanics of the…

  • Extra Life and Gamealot

    I’m off to one of my favourite local cons this weekend, Gamealot. Not so coincidentally started and run by one of my favourite game stores, Mission: Fun and Games, Gamealot has grown from an in-store event to filling the Kinsmen Club in St. Albert. Despite its growth it has managed to keep an intimate community-driven…

  • Engaging your Players: Player Homework

    I prefer to build a world/campaign focused on the player characters. Like characters on a TV show, the action of the story should revolve around them. I also want the world to feel fleshed out, so I include things that have nothing to do with the players. After all, in the real world there are…