Blog Carnival: Overpowered Sandboxes and Just-Right Rails?

This is my response to the blog carnival topic started on Twitter by @ThadeousC.  Here are the rules: 1. Your post must be on topic. 2. If you wish to participate in this blog carnival, please post a comment saying so and you will have 24 hours to write and post your response (if you […]

Lessons Learned in the Past 2 Years

One of my great beliefs about running role-playing games is that I can stay fresh and avoid burn-out by always being in a learning mode.  I learn new things all the time – it’s one of the reasons I play as well as DM, because you can learn so much by taking part in a […]

Cooperative Party Building

I am starting up a new 4e campaign and the players and I got together for the first session this past Monday. I have realized in the past year or two that the ease of DMing 4th edition (by which I mean encounter building, monster reskinning, and NPC design) leaves me lots more time to […]

Adventure Hook 015 – God's Lightening

I’ve done it again and fallen behind on my Adventure Hooky Goodness Personal Challenge.  Often it’s not that I haven’t written the hook, it’s more-so my inability to get time to format and upload it.  I think what I will do to make it easier on myself is to post hooks twice a week.  So […]