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#RPGaDay, Day 15: Longest Campaign Played

Recently my regular Thursday night group took a break from our long-running Rise of the Runelords Pathfinder campaign. I’ve been gaming with this particular group of guys (with some additions and subtractions along the way) for over 8 years. Of that time, we’ve been playing Runelords long enough that we started in D&D 3.5 and switched to…

August 15, 2015
#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…

August 14, 2015
#RPGaDay, Day 13: Favourite RPG Podcast

My current favourite gaming podcast is actually for a game I have yet to play, Numenera. Numenera: The Signal is a brilliant example of making a piece of media useful both in and out of game. Each roughly twenty minute episode focuses on some aspect of the Ninth World, the setting for Numenera. It includes…

August 13, 2015
#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,…

August 12, 2015
#RPGaDay, Day 11: Favourite RPG Writer

I completely missed the start of this for this year, so today I’ll be catching up, working back from today’s topic. If you want to see my answers to the previous day’s questions, keep scrolling down. Day 11: Favourite RPG Writer This may be one of the hardest questions for me to answer. And no,…

August 11, 2015
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…

March 30, 2015
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…

February 25, 2015
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.…

October 16, 2014
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…

October 14, 2014
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…

October 13, 2014