Category: Geek Culture

  • The Internet Forum Drinking Game

    I’ve been spending some time on forums and message boards lately. Some might say too much time, and some might be correct. I’m usually able to act with restraint, but every once in a while I succumb to “Someone is Wrong on the Internet!” Syndrome. When that happens, the only way out is through. But…

  • Quickie Update

    Just checking in so no one starts looting my corpse. Extra Life went very well, and Team Knifeshoes raised $5991 by the end. I really want to thank everyone who donated to the cause, and my team mates for their hard work. Sadly, due to illness and just life getting in the way, none of…

  • Countdown to Extra Life

    Okay, so my dice tower post is slowly becoming the “Sex & D&D” of my site (don’t get that joke? Start here, and you’re welcome). It’s coming, I promise. Just having issues with hot glue, as one does. Since I’m just three scant days away from 25 hours of continuous gaming, I thought I’d make…

  • Extra Life Update and Game Schedule

    Taking a break from the 30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge. Don’t worry, I’ll catch up tomorrow. But today I’m talking about my Extra Life fundraising, because the day is fast approaching. I am not a serious, hard-core video gamer. I have my moments; I play more World of Tanks and World of Warcraft than…

  • 30 Days of Game Mastering, Day Eleven to Fourteen

    Moving into days eleven through twenty of the 30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge, we focus more on how things run at the table. As a reminder, if you follow the link above and look in the comments section, you’ll see all the blogs taking part in the challenge. I encourage you to do so,…

  • 30 Days of Game Mastering, Day Ten

    Ten solid days of the 30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge in the can! What are your tips for running a low/no prep game? As I said in an earlier post, I’m not the strongest improv GM. I’ve become better over time, but I’ve bolstered my meagre improv skills by being hyper-prepared behind-the-scenes. Every once…

  • 30 Days of Game Mastering, Day Nine

    Have you met 30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge? No? Well please get acquainted… Player “homework”: what do you ask of your players before and between sessions? As you can guess from my previous post on world-building, I prefer to focus the world/campaign on the player characters. Like characters on a TV show, the action…

  • 30 Days of Game Mastering, Day Eight

    30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge, etcetera and so on. How do you prep for each session? I know there are GMs out there that maybe don’t do a lot of prep between sessions. I respect GMs that can really work on the fly, because I am not one of them. I’ve gotten better at…

  • 30 Days of Game Mastering, Day Seven

    30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge, yadda yadda yadda… How do you prep for the start of a campaign? Most of the Game Master prep I do at the start of a campaign was touched upon in yesterday’s post. To sum up, I heavily detail everything immediately around the party’s start location, because this is…

  • 30 Days of GMing, Day Six

    This is the 30 Days of Game Mastering Challenge, coming to you live! World-building: What’s your process? The Pathfinder RPG is about 70% of my gaming these days, so not a lot of world building involved. More like “world fleshing out” (a topic for another post). But when I do use my own campaign world, I…