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 […]

How to Find a Gaming Group

I have been on hiatus for a week, and I apologize for that.  While I am constructing the next few Adventure Hooks, I have this post for you to peruse.  This was written in response to a person on a message board I frequent asking about how to find a regular RPG group, and then […]

Response to: What to Do With a Bad GM

This is my response to a post on a blog I read (mikesdndblog).  In this particular post, Mike talks about his experience with a DM at a convention game (D&D 4e, one-shot, limited time, pre-set adventure).  The DM was unprepared, unfamiliar with some rules, showed a lack of enthusiasm, played an adversarial role to the […]

Raise Dead and the TPK

A couple of weeks ago I was playing in a 4e game which ended in a TPK.  That’s Total Party Kill for those of you not current with the lingo. A couple of bits of background info regarding the group… 1) This was the final session of a relatively long running campaign (more than two […]