I just got back from a long weekend on Isle Royale. It was tough to be so far from phone, internet, or any kind of communication. It did leave me with a lot of time to think and come up with ideas for new locations, monsters, hazards, and adventures. Just about any area of the […]
Bring Some Luck to Your Dice
Are your dice unlucky? RPG players, do you have trouble rolling critical hits? Game Masters, do your NPCs die without having a chance to react? Do your monsters get slaughtered as you roll below 5 every time? I may have an answer to your problems – this may be just the thing for you… Dice […]
Opportunity Actions: Hybridizing Gameplay
It’s tough. People’s schedules just don’t always line up the way we’d like them to. People move. People get married, have kids, and other things that make getting together less and less possible. So, what do you do? Many groups call it quits after they find they can’t get together once every week, month, or […]
Put your hand down and play
A few weeks ago, I was playing in my bi-weekly 4e game. (Wait, is bi-weekly every other week, or twice a week, I can never remember…let me try again.) A few weeks ago, I was playing in my every-other-week 4e game, when one of the common complaints about 4th edition became clear to me. It […]