RPG convention time is in full swing and that makes this a good time to give some advice to those who are thinking of running a game session at a CON. Here is a short list of my DO’s and DON’Ts for prepping to run a session at a CON. Pre-Generated PCs? Give EVERY pre-generated […]
5e D&D Rules Variants That Give My Game a More Old School Feel
I make no secret of the fact I enjoy older D&D editions – anyone who has listened to Brandes Stoddard and I discuss D&D for hours on Edition Wars knows this to be true. However, I still play a ton of 5e D&D and I do believe it is a solid system. Recently, some friends […]
My #1 piece of advice for running Rime of the Frostmaiden
**This post contains spoilers – if you are playing Rime of the Frostmaiden, beware!*** I’m 17 sessions into my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign and I want to tell everyone my #1 piece of advice for running this adventure. The Complaint One of the biggest complaints I have seen about this adventure is that the […]
My Players Know All The Monsters
If you have run D&D games for any length of time, you have probably run across a player who knows a lot about the monsters their PCs encounter. I have a player who knows how many HP a gnoll has, what a zombie’s AC is, how much damage a goblin boss does, and the CON […]