I received lots of feedback about my gaming styles post. I really appreciate all of you twitter friends that responded, as well as those that emailed me or left comments on the site. I truly appreciate hearing your thoughts. In listening to all of the feedback two things have become abundantly clear to me… 1) […]
Paragon Tier Game Session 01
My regular group started a new 4e game tonight. We decided to go with the Paragon Tier since we haven’t really done a lot in that level range before (most of our adventures have been in the Heroic Tier). – I started the session with a cooperative party building exercise. I describe my method in […]
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 […]
The Value of a One-Shot
Okay, I’ll admit it… I don’t like running one-shot adventures. I usually find it cumbersome, slow, and generally boring. One of the reasons I love DMing so much is that my players and I get to weave a story that includes elements in which everyone is invested. A one-shot pretty much always precludes that, reducing […]