Category: Role-playing

  • When a Game Master Gets Lost

    It can happen to any Game Master.  There you are, mid-campaign.  In an attempt to keep the party engaged you have plot threads running everywhere.  But some of those threads are fraying, others are getting snarled up.  You aren’t sure anymore what is going on, and if you aren’t sure it is only a matter…

  • Random Acts of Publicity: Amber E. Scott

    Continuing with Random Acts of Publicity, I want to tell you all a little bit about my pal, Amber E. Scott. As has happened with many of my writing friends, I read Amber well before I met Amber.  Her work graced the pages of Dragon magazine back before its fall, and as a happy coincidence…

  • The Games Room: Making It Right!

    If there is a second great love in my life behind gaming, it is home improvement.  I love HGTV (though if you are listening, producers, less shows about buying property, more actual renovation shows!) and I will watch DIY Disaster, Holmes on Homes, Holmes Inspection, Sarah’s House et al for hours.  And thanks to a…

  • Happy Birthday, Gary! And thanks!

    This is still going to be a link-filled post today, but I need to take a moment to acknowledge someone very special. Today is Gary Gygax’s birthday.  And I can say without hyperbole that his invention of the game Dungeons & Dragons (along with Dave Arneson), changed my life forever.  If I allowed myself, I…

  • The Anniversary of my Birth

    That’s right, it’s my birthday.  So instead of slaving over a hot keyboard (I should really get that fixed) to write a new post, I’m taking the lazy birthday way out.  Below, please find a Classic Post from about, oh, three blogs ago.  You’ll gain a little insight in to how I turned out to…