Go Ahead and Talk About Your Character

Let’s say that you, as your average tabletop RPG player, go somewhere online. Let’s further suppose that this place you go to is for fans of RPGs, a place they can hang out and chat. Let’s go one step further and suggest that while at this place, you start talking about the character or characters […]

Feeling 4tigued

This post is in large part due to a comment I made on Twitter the other day after my last session. The text of which was the following:

Last night’s #dnd session was the best in *months* but I think I discovered that I don’t really like 4E :sadclownface:

This led to an all-day (and well into the evening) discussion of what my problems with the system are. The resulting conversation showed that it isn’t simply the edition’s system at fault, but partly the fault of my players and self. However, the system is fatiguing me, hence my coining of the “word” 4tigued.

Opportunity Actions: Red Box Play Report (Thurgenar’s Take)

After much anticipation, I got a chance to play in a Red Box scenario engineered by our own DM Samuel, the payoff to RPG Musings’ Red Box Haiku contest. I was one who volunteered to play and be recorded for an actual play podcast of the event. (I’ll post a link when it becomes available.) […]

Opportunity Actions: RPGKids Review

Today, I’m reviewing RPGKids by Enrique Bertran, aka the NewbieDM (see the title if you didn’t already know that). It is a role-playing game geared at ages 4-7. Initial Impressions As of this point, I have not yet read it. I want to put out my expectations before diving in. I have a three and […]