Category: Role-playing

  • It’s Time to Pick Up Childish Things!

    There are many reasons to get kids in to the role-playing games hobby. Table-top gaming has been shown to have positive benefits for its participants, like improved problem solving and social skills. But it’s also a healthy thing for the hobby itself to encourage. If table-top gaming is to continue to flourish we need young…

  • 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…

  • 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 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,…