For Christmas this year my wife bought me Dante’s Inferno. Not the poem, the video game. Yes, I know, I’m about a year late to the party but that’s not really the point.
Thanks to Snowpacalypse 2010 I had the opportunity to play it a lot this week. As I did, I came across a couple of things that really irritate me in video games, and realized that those things have parallels in in D&D, and I might actually be guilty of doing them as a DM.
If you’re not following the online comic, Basic Instructions, by Scott Meyer you’re missing out. Each comic is a four panel dialog to illustrate an ironic way to go about doing something. In a recent comic Scott explains how to create a Tale of Suspense. The gist of the joke is how to create a […]
I’m turning something over in my head lately. I watch a lot of news. It’s easy sometimes to fictionalize what we see, if there’s a great story there. I’ll be telling this through my campaign idea.
I was talking with some gaming friends the other day and the railroad was discussed. Later that day I was reading some threads on the RPGGeek forums and found a current discussion regarding railroading in your game. Since this topic seems to keep coming up, I decided to write down my thoughts once again, and […]