Tag: Role-playing

  • Extra Magic for Extra Life

    Donate $10 through my Extra Life page and I’ll make that $10 work forever. Let me explain. (If you want to skip my meandering and hear the plan, scroll down to The Plan, below) I was mulling over copy for my Extra Life tweets and emails and I remembered those tweets that usually go something…

  • Apotheosis Studios: The Culmination of Unprofessionalism

    (Brent here! There are ongoing updates with links to the accounts from other folks coming forward at the end of the article.) If you are in the TTRPG community on Twitter today, chances are good you have already seen some of the threads talking about the deplorable conduct of Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone, co-leads…

  • Catching my Extra Life

    Catching my Extra Life

    Ten years ago I decided to take part in my first Extra Life. I didn’t consider it a huge step at the time. I had taken part in local fundraisers for various children’s charities, I figured doing something with games to help sick kids was a natural fit. That first year was a bit rough;…

  • TTRPGs Giving Back

    The tabletop gaming community is filled with smart, funny, imaginative people who enjoy sharing stories and laughter with their friends and quite often with complete strangers. I think that last part is one of the things I love most about this hobby. That I can sit at a table of folks I don’t know and…

  • It’s Been a Long Road

    Welcome, reader! 2021 ended rough and 2022 didn’t start much better. I’ve spent the last few months getting myself sorted and resting as needed. I’ve only just recently got myself sorted, at least enough to get back to writing. So a day early but Happy March! My intention through the rest of the year is…

  • Creating a Library, No Big Deal

    On Facebook yesterday I mentioned that I’m going ahead with an idea I’ve had milling about for a while now. I’m creating a roleplaying game library, mandated to collect, preserve, and share tabletop roleplaying games, as well as documents associated with the hobby. I’m not the first person to have this idea. Alexandria RPG and…

  • Marginalia and Other Oddities

    I love introducing libraries of books in my campaigns. It’s the sort of treasure I’d love to find if I were an adventurer, after all. Cracking open a door no one has opened in centuries, only to discover shelf upon shelf of dusty manuscripts…oh yeah, you can keep your gold and gems (okay, maybe not…

  • RPGaDay Double Feature!

    (Because “RPGaDay Double Feature” sounds better than “I was sick yesterday and didn’t post”.) August 10th: Largest in-game surprise you have experienced? Years back I played in a Shackled City AP campaign. I was playing a Lawful Good human monk names Ceres, and we had progressed through the campaign with the usual trials and tribulations.…

  • Convention Time, Part Deux!

    A longish while back I wrote a post about going to conventions, with some tips and tricks I use when conning around. Since then I’ve written a few posts on subjects touching on gaming conventions; if you search the convention tag I’m sure they’ll pop up. Since the Grand Daddy of all gaming cons, Gen…

  • Do It In Public!

    Read an RPG Book in Public, that is! Why, what were you…naughty! Promoted tri-annually by The Escapist, Read an RPG Book in Public week is meant to raise the profile of the role-playing hobby and show our love for what is normally a behind-closed-doors activity. You grab a favourite RPG book, find a public area…