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#RPGaDay, Day 14: Favourite RPG Accessory
Dice. Don’t even have to think about. Dice are my hands-down favourite gaming accessory. You give me a cool, weird, awesome set of dice and I am your friend for life. If a game has a cool set of custom dice with it, I am immediately interested. Games like Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice, which…
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#RPGaDay, Day 12: Favourite RPG Illustration
Hands down, my favourite current RPG artist is Wayne Reynolds. I like a lot of other RPG artists as well, for a variety of different reasons; Larry Elmore, Mike Sass, Jeff Dee, Bill Willingham, David Trampier, Erol Otis. But Wayne Reynolds’ work is so iconic, and tells a great story with even the simplest image,…
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On Being a Better Con Gamer
Here in the snowy wilds of Canada, winter is loosening its grip on the land. Which means all the introverted nerds like me can come out of our winter hibernation and start taking in that most glorious of gaming activities: the gaming convention. Locally, GOBFest was just this past weekend, a mighty collection of board…
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Many Happy Returns
Life can be funny sometimes. In this case, not a ha-ha funny; more of a “didn’t expect to be here” funny. I have a new, permanent, full-time job in a field I love (I know, boo-hoo-hoo, right?), which has required me to put just about everything else on the back-burner as I get settled in…
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Trail Rations: Healthy Dips
Replacing junk food at the gaming table with healthy, home-cooked options is a big part of my group’s attempt to game healthier. But let’s face it, sometimes you want chips and nothing else will do. When that craving strikes you can still make your chips a little healthier by making the dips and salsa yourself.…
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Extra Life 2014
Once again I am taking part in Extra Life, raising funds for the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Alberta with Team #Knifeshoes. If you’d like to make a donation, please do so through my secure donation page. I’m really excited to be taking part again this year, and with your donations I’m hoping I’ll beat last…
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Campaign Creation: What’s Dead Can Never Die…
Looking back through the logs, and it has been a while since I did one of these. So let’s start with a quick recap of what I’ve done so far: created a starting location (The Ruin and environs) created some NPCs important to the party picked the main monsters/monster types the characters will encounter first figured…
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