Tag: Role-playing

  • Free RPG Day Reviews Part 1

    If you aren’t a gamer, you might not be aware we just celebrated the closest we get to Christmas this past weekend: Free RPG Day. Inspired by Free Comic Book Day and started in 2007, Free RPG Day works with participating gaming retailers and RPG publishers to put new and exclusive RPG quickstart rules and adventure modules into…

  • Humpday Links for May 29

    I’m going against all tradition and declaring June the start of summer.  That allows me to justify calling this the last Humpday Link of spring!  …well it was important to me, anyway. Your Humpday Links! – If this discovery is actually true, there are some pretty serious implications. Mammoth farming, anyone? – Gamers, if you’ve…

  • Time May Change Me, But I Can’t Trace Time

    Bowie lyric in the title aside, there are some changes afoot at Renaissance Dork World Headquarters.  I’ve had a long, hard think over the past few months and I’ve come to a conclusion. I’m not that much of a renaissance geek any more. Don’t get me wrong, I still love all the things I loved…

  • READ AN RPG BOOK IN PUBLIC WEEK

    One of the things I really love about the geek community are the holidays we have made for ourselves.  It’s something I’ve not noticed other hobbies doing, but possibly because I’m just not in that group.  Do model railroaders celebrate the anniversary of the creation of HO Scale?  Do football fans have a National Pigskin…

  • Gencon Day Three: Hug your Volunteers!

    Day Three was a blur as well, but for an awful instead of awesome reason.  Food poisoning, when you are safe in the comforts of your home, is bad.  The experience is not made better by living out of hotel in a strange city.  So I’m not going to dwell too much on what my…

  • Gencon Day Two, Continued

    The highlight of Day Two was, of course, the Pathfinder Society Gencon Special.  My introduction to Pathfinder Society came through playing in the Gencon Special back in 2010, so I was excited to be a part of the GM team this time around. I won’t talk a lot about the story of the Special, because…

  • Enjoying the Con Game

    I am GMing this weekend at Underground Con, a one day gaming convention in Calgary.  I am running two slots of Pathfinder Society Organized play, and taking part as a GM in the Iron GM Local competition.  Underground Con is a great grass-roots gaming con, and if you are in Calgary or environs, I recommend…

  • GM Advice: Letting Go of “No”

    If you’ve been game mastering for a while, the word “no” can start to feel like a comfortable old friend.  After all, you spend your sessions riding herd on players, who often have the impulse control of Ritalin-deprived, sugar-soaked 10-year-olds…or maybe that’s just my group.  In any case, it is easy to just say no…

  • Humpday Links for February 22

    There is some happenings and doings around the ‘net this week, so let us get to it.  But first and most important, please help Spider Robinson if you can.  Update:  Jan Schroeder has begun the Graceful Woman Warrior auction on eBay in support of this cause.  There are some wonderful items up for auction with…

  • Humpday Links for November 30

    Posting has been giving me issues here on the blog lately, but some conversations with the helpdesk seem to have sorted out the issue.  Rather than slam you with three posts today, though, I’m just going to go ahead with my regular schedule of links.  I’ll post what would have been Monday and Tuesday on,…