I used to post these updates over on my own site (www.vanitygames.com), which started out as a totally D&D DM blog-centric site. I was attempting to support my spouse, who had some vague aspirations towards game design, so I got into D&D so my spouse’d have a cheerleader on the sidelines. Well, that totally fell […]
Kill the cleric!
Alternately titled: “Turning player loss into dramatic character death” but that sounds way less catchy. The setup: I have a player for whom we coined the term “D&Dmo.” When he was present at the table, and I mean present and not just sitting there, he was fantastic. Bright, beautiful, an engaging roleplayer, a great tactician, a […]
More To Stealth Than Silence or Shadows
Whether you’re playing an epic high fantasy game, a gritty cyberpunk campaign, or a spooky horror game, chances are that characters are going to have to move around at some point or another with a great deal of stealth. They may have to sneak into a place, sneak around while in a place, sneak out, […]
The Recycle Bin – Angel Beats and Speaking Well As The Dead
So it’s been a while. I would like to say I’ve been deep in a secluded underground vault, surrounded by nothing but my beloved Pez dispensers, exposing myself to as much media as I could to transmutate into Recycle Bin posts for you all. But there was this issue with my brother, a suit of […]